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ore things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice. Isa. lviii. 1.

ceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

urfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

f or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

er; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

Attraction. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

To avert; to ward off. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.