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The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.

Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.

An ineffectual attempt to vomit.

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

To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

sually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey.

do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

ion made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

Tending to check vomiting. -- n.

To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale.

Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant. The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke.

A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.

That which accompanies; a concomitant. [A] sense of fame, the attendant of noble spirits. Pope.

r and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.