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The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive. Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. Falconer.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.

of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc. The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep.

Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. E. Darwin.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

rol by inspiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.

ess deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

freely for a cause. [Colloq.] To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.

o is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.