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Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

und whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

See Water buck.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

s or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.