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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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937 words match “OMEN”

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.

The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner. J. R. Green.

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION n.

ization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which were combined in the year 1884 as a national association. Now nearly all the civilized coun…

ABDOMINAL a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

er part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

ABDOMINOSCOPY n.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

ABDOMINOTHORACIC a.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

An omen; a portending. [Obs.]

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

ghest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.