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Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.

Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

The corsak.

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

To refuse to assent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not accordant. Fabyan.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.

To free from acid.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [Obs.] South.

ender unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] South.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

See under Embryonic.