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Not made by brewing; unmixed; pure; genuine. [R.] Young.

See Underlooker.

One who views or examines.

Same as Vinnewed.

Moldy; musty. [Written also vinewed.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Vin"newed*ness, n. [Obs.] Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.

An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.

The European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.

A woodpecker.

Made of yew; as, yewen bows.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth.

teem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

e who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.