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Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

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

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

llation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay.

Confessedly.

One who acknowledges.