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ion which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott.

mit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.

attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.)

The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

uent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat.…

Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

ordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

imilar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.