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Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.

The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization. Vulcanized fiber, paper, paper pulp, or other fiber, chemically treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc. Knight. -- Vulcanized rubber, India rubber, vulcaniz…

One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.

A volcano. [Obs.]

The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc. [R.]

the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock. Dr. Prior.

See Canker, n., 1.

Zinc chloride. [Obs.]

hrone, or other high office or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors. "Magic I here abjure." Shak.

restalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

o frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

eaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

To endure; to abide. [Obs.] But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. Spenser.

nces, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.