Search the Dictionary

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]

anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.

Fit to be mentioned.

Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw. -- n.

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Containing advice or admonition.

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

The details of a banquet; a bill of fare.

See Amenuse. [Obs.]

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

Habiliment. [Obs.]

Renunciation. [R.]

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.