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Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.

To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] Johnson.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

Characterized by acumen; keen. Highmore.

Same as Adenose.

Producing fat.

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

Without female organs; male.

ining, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

Altisonant.

Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

Ambagious. [R.]

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.