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Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.

ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh. "The stately horse . . . stooped with a low whinny." Tennyson.

A sword, or hanger. [Obs.]

Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste. Dampier.

The common wren. [Prov. Eng.]

The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.

signating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.

a buffoon. Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany. Donne. Preacher at once, and zany of thy age. Pope.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.

A cross between a male horse and a female zebra.

The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zuñi mine in Colorado.

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made fr…

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.] Fuller.

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.