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Continuing; lasting.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.

The act of thrusting away. [R.] Ogilvie.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

In a bursting condition.

of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordina…

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losi…

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

cknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.