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Having molted. [Obs.] "A moulten raven." Shak.

Mountance. [Obs.]

Having manifold power, or power to do many things. "Jove multipotent." Shak.

The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.

Endeavor; rffort; tendency. [R.] Boyle.

A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

Inattention.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter.

Not having existence.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.

Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe. Milton.

The quality or state of being oblate.

The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.

To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. [Obs.] Dryden

; the state of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.

The act of obtending. [Obs.] Johnson.