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To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

A male fish.

Miltonic. Lowell.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

To melt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

e; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Detestation. Milton.

and the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton.

d broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

ampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.

To withhold from being present. [Obs.] "Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more." Milton.

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.