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ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

To be unlike; to differ. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.

ther the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

uality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

shes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

chnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

quipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

evelopment of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Sour like vinegar; acetous.

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.