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Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

y of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

nglike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

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

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

nesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

llam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

se correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.

One who repeals by authority.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

h absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.