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In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.

rted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

ithout a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

h of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5. Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.

ion; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Acritan. Owen.

opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

ween puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

ce; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

ormed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

nsolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

aving the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.