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Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

Without an anal office.

Without an apron.

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnæn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.

member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.

The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

Without any arm or branch.

e of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.