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Having numerous ribs, or costæ, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals.

Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.

Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

A speaking in a low tone; mumbling. [Obs.]

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.

A salt of myristic acid.

The act of floating on the water; swimming. Sir T. Browne.

The swimming birds.

Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.

Adapted for swimming; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

A swimming bath.

Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile.

The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp. Bramhall.

To wink; to nictitate.

the act of winking; nictitation.

To wink; to nictate. Nictitating membrance (Anat.), a thin membrance, found in many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

The act of winking.

rong and good; -- said of ale or liquor. [Old Cant] 'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate. Chapman.