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The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

aining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.

Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To dig under or beneath; to undermine. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Generated by water. [R.] Kirwan.

Indigestible.

To put off; to lay aside, as a garment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unworthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not distinguished by a pedigree. [R.] Pollok.

To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle." Hawthorne.

The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

eign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

To approach; to accost. [Obs.] Digby.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.