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To pass through the stages of circumnutation.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

The cocoanut.

The bitter fruit of Cola acuminata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.

f reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. Bentley.

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.

Cuckolded. [R.] "My being cornuted." LEstrange.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.

A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Indicating or causing diminution. Earle.

Small; diminished; diminutive. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Diminutively. [Obs.]

of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement. The world's opinion or diminution of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

Indicating diminution; diminutive. "Diminutival forms" [of words]. Earle. -- n.