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Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

Suggestion. [R.] They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.

A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Indigestible.

Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. Pritchard.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

The digestion of fats.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

b-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

oian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

y succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

g circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.