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The quality or state of being suspensible.

Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which…

A suspensory.

Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

Suspended; hanging; depending.

An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.

Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

ant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.

Terpenylic.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also terpentic acid), homologous with terebic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid.

A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.

A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]

Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Same as Tripinnate.

An honest fellow. Shak. Bacon.

A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.

North Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.