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One who absents one's self.

In an absent or abstracted manner.

The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.] Barrow.

The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

The state of being fat; fatness.

The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Vehemence of temper. [Obs.]

Good against dysentery. -- n.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

A salt of arsenic acid.

See Arsenate. [R.]

. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight. Symbol As.

Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers. Arsenical silver, an ore of silver containing arsenic.

To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.