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The hippopotamus. [R.]

When. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A leather thong. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

An imaginary creature, of undefined character. [Slang]

See Wanghee.

Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.

The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

edan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight. [Written also ataghan, attaghan.] Chaucer.

See Yellolegs.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amountin…

ponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

[Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.