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Not capable of being brought into harmony; irreconcilable. "Unatonable matrimony." [Obs.] Milton.

To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

To deprive of a tongue, or of voice. [Obs.] Fuller.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.

The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.

An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.

ciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." Spenser. "A wild and wanton herd." Shak. A wanton and a merry [friar]. Chaucer. [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. How does your tongue grow wanton in her pra…

To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. [R.] Lamb.

In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness. Shak.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

A riding boot for men, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.

A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.

A kind of long boots for men.

See under Bridge.

rating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools. The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. Shak. Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. South.

A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.

oops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.