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A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.

A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.

An office Dr. W. Smith.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amountin…

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day pre…

the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

Free from color; colorless; as, in Physiol. Chem., the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.

A registar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registar generally.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

errified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.