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Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] Whitefoot.

A public sale or auction. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Same as Diphase, Diphaser.

Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.

To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.

sing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

ion, §§ 43-74. The regular long 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).

rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

ve case. ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, P…

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and conseq…

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.