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Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.

A minute spine. Dana.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Covered with small spines.

Somewhat granular.

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

A vaginula.

A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.

Full of venules, or small veins.

Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped. "The zonular type of a placenta." Dana.

A little zone, or girdle.

A zonule. Herrick.

Same as Zoönite.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes an…

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

See Inulin.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.