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One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf. [Written also toothletted.]

Incomplete. Pope.

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.

the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

me to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

ompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,…

cal process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

ivisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Beaus adept in everything profound. Cowper.

al union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

Totality; completeness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.