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Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.

The chief primate. Milton.

containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. Campbell.

To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. To checkmate and control my just demands. Ford.

A salt of chromic acid.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

A companion. Shak.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

Having the same form. [R.]