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Worldliness. [R.] Cotgrave.

A secular possession; a temporality.

Same as Rugosa.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Of or pertaining to a bed. [R.]

Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [R.] Gay.

Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

Occurring once in every three hours.

Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral. -- Un`mo*ral"i*ty, n.

Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.

Same as Curare.

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

er fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…

Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

ous; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.