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See Sequin.

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

otuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

A weeding machine.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

A snatching away. [Obs.]

e; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

e; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

(Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

icroörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.