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Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Not still; restless. [R.]

To; against. [Obs. & R.] She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast uptill a thorn. Shak.

Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.

See Sapodilla.

ng a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

unters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.

secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Nicholson.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

s 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.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

th of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.