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er having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

istractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

s of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

r public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

sume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

luid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

ood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

ies of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.