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Not known; unknown. [Colloq.]

Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. [R.] Camden.

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.

definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

d without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute…

at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

nal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

d, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

arbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

s of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

The language of the Alemanni. The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. Amer. Cyc.