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Without chyle.

Without chyme.

Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

Being without joints; jointless.

To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually 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 re…

dentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Without action or spirit. [R.]

Without limit; endlessly.

Without fingers or without toes.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

ation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

urve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

ts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

n in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

n. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.