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ad body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.

An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.

See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.

Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. -- n.

Posthumos. [Obs.] I. Watts. Fuller.

Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.

It a posthumous manner; after one's decease.

More than human.

A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic. To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course, following a rhumb line.

Sumac.

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).

place the shoulders under; to bear. [Obs.] Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his. Feltham.

Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.

A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washer…

The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]

Having thumbs.

An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Without a thumb. Darwin.

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.