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A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

o annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Capable of being abolished.

One who abolishes.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.

ertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

Embolismic.

Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

The use of hyperbole. Jefferson.

One who uses hyperboles.

Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

Metabolism. [R.]

or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

A narrator of parables.

The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.

One who employs symbols.