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A castrated ram.

ich one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively. [Archaic] Now choose yourself whether that you liketh. Chaucer. One day in doubt I cast for to compare Whether in beauties' glory did exceed. Spenser. Whether of them twain did the will of his father Matt. xxi. 31.

The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.

ing, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is n…

, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

d to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.

easurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

A combining together. [R.]

. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

To grow together.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.