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Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.

Want of importance; triviality. Johnson.

Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper.

Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.

Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

ially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very gre…

s it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

r zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

s stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

cle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

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