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Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor. Ruth. iii. 2.

One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.

The act of one who, or that which, winnows.

Enough. [Obs.] Chaucer.

] "A God's name." "Torn a pieces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

efinitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak.

icable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

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

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.

om a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute…

rts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.