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A calling off or away. [R.] Hallywell.

Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.

a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller…

a from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

A removal from the usual place of residence. [Obs.]

To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Equivocalness.

te feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. "Equivocal repentances." Milton.

In an equivocal manner.

The state of being equivocal.

To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate…

ptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke.

One who equivocates. Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak.

Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.