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Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Supersulphurized. [Obs.] [Written also -sulphuretted.]

ed or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.

Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

To pass over a strait or narrow sea. [Written also transfreight.] [Obs.] E. Hall.

Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp. Bacon.

The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

ustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

ily to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in wa…