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suming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.

Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.

The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

Whereas; while [Obs.] Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter. Barrow.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

n to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

he patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

t attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.