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To divide; to cleave in two. [Obs.] Spenser.

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

The act of killing a master.

ake clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.

One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.

Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]

The killing of a bishop.

To cut off. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

r want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

The state of being flaccid.

Same as Feticide.

One of the family Formicidæ, or ants.

Rotten from being too ripe; overripe. [Obs.] Blount.

Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.

The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.