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Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

f an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovate. [R.]

Immovable. "Steadfast, unmovable." 1 Cor. xv. 58. Locke.

Immovably. [R.] J. Ellis.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.

e act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor.

e noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

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

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

aving the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.