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Inviolable.

See under Violet.

f the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

ke away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

onsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.…

To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

istinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydr…

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

r African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.