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An absorbent. [R.]

A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.

Situated under the endocardium.

Situated under the endyma.

Submissive; yielding. [R.] Howell.

The quality or state of being superincumbent.

Lying or resting on something else.

A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

Absence or want of benevolence; ill will.

Not benign; malignant.

To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.

A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceæ) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.

To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.

A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.