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Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.] L. Coleman. Bolingbroke.

nded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

One who or that which explodes.

One who floods anything.

p. p. of Forbid. Chaucer.

tion of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

One who forebodes.

Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.

Same as Galactometer.

Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

A geodetic line or curve.

Of or pertaining to geodetic.

One versed in geodesy.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of…

Of or pertaining to gebdesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. Geodetic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that th…