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In relation to the accusative case in grammar.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

dhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

f Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

yonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.