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A Pent up; confined. [Obs.]

undred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. [Written also wapentac.] Selden. Blackstone.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. "Acceptability of repentance." Jer. Taylor.

A serpent. [Obs.] "The eddre seide to the woman." Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. )

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

-- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

ers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.

f a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group, C6H6. The term is extended also to many of t…