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A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds. [Written also thiophtene.]

To unburden; to unload.

Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.

Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.

Writhen.

oing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much o…

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

To make able; to enable; to strengthen. Chaucer.

which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

d (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of. If you accept them, then their worth is great. Shak. To accept of ransom for my son. Milton. She accepted of a treat. Addison.

n accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.

A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. "Nor time nor place did then adhere." Every thing adheres together." Shak.

ct of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.