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A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

No thanks; ill will; misfortune. [Obs.] Unthank come on his head that bound him so. Chaucer.

cine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

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

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun,…

eets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

d. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

ly in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

mulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

e same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks. Shak.

Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

m; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowp…