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Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]

In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

In a transcendental manner.

A short, squat woman. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

In a vital manner.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller.

ortable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

er; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

Grown to congenitally.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.