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Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.

A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid. "the solvent body." Boyle.

Produced by the wind. [Obs.]

The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud." Stackhouse.

To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.

Helping; aiding; supporting. Urquhart.

The act of supervening. Bp. Hall.

Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak.

A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

ality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unt…

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." Kent.