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Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.)

Full of, or abounding in, dew. [R.]

Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. Kirwan.

See Sexivalent. [R.]

Hexavalent. [R.]

Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. How silent is this town! Shak.

One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre

Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent. [R.]

In a silent manner.

State of being silent; silence.

See Slant. [Obs.]

Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

See Splent.

Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

In a succulent manner.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. Drayton.

eeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (Thucid.).…

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).