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Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.

The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.

The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.

Vehemence. [R.] The vehemency of your affection. Shak.

Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

In a vehement manner.

Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.

Hydraulic cement.

An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).

The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.

A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.

origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide t…

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

e, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

hold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.