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Wide; extensive. Sandys.

Without space. Coleridge.

See Spatial.

See Spatially. Sir W,Hamilton.

Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide." Milton.

Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.

To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.

One who unpacks.

The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

rcising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

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 relief unto the brethren. Acts xi…

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

ual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

ding; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.