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Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

See Corroboree.

A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.

le, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.

Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

One who, or that which, disrobes.

To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.] A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser.

A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.

Of relating to the hemerobians.

An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.

A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.

A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.

An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera. -- Hy`dro*bran"chi*ate, a.