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ntally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Without action or spirit. [R.]

Without limit; endlessly.

Without fingers or without toes.

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

ion (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

ve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

cho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.