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classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]

Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.

triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

Distended; swelled. [R.] "His tumored breast." R. Junius.

Further; outer; utter. [Obs. & R.] Holland.

A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

" "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

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.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

ent 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.

nds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.) above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things. Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.

us, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

e or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

To withhold from being present. [Obs.] "Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more." Milton.

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.

The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whitene…