Search the Dictionary

Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage. Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite. Milton.

One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. [Obs.] Chapman.

To glide in a flying machine.

A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

A windflower.

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

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

xis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.

ermined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

eom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. -- Absolute space (Physics), space considered without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as…

absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

e belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.