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Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

Multivalent.

Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] Johnson.

Excellent; surpassing. [Obs.] Holland.

Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant. [R.] Boyle.

iling; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.

In a prevalent manner. Prior.

Very minutely downy.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

ing of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

In a purulent manner.

capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Of or pertaining to quantivalence. [Archaic]

Querulous. [R.]

Same as Pentavalent.

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. "Honey redolent of spring." Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. Gray.

r hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. [Obs.] He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope.

athy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. For this the avenging power employs his darts,.. Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. Dryden. -- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent"less*ness, n.…

The act or process of retenting; the state of having relented. Sir T. Browne.