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The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale. Busby.

Tragical to excess.

The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.

Not expert; inexpert. Milton.

In an unexpert manner.

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]

A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

be of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.

Vespertine. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening. Gray.

Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.