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A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.

Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk. Gray.

To make prosperous. [R.]

Prosperity. [R.]

The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.

n; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.

Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Ignorant. [Obs.] I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [knowest]. Chaucer.

Ignorantly. [Obs.]

Ignorance. [Obs.]

The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

Rashful; modest. [Obs.]

Verecund. [Obs.] "Verecundious generosity." Sir H. Wotton.

The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. [Obs.]

A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.