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A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

Same as Arthrostraca.

Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.

A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

See Tetrodon.

See Tetrodont.

A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.

A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

A plant of the order Tetradynamia.

Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

Not dealt with in trade; not visited for purposes of trade. [Obs.] Hakluyt

Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.

d; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

sed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.