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or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name. Milton.

Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as, happy-omened day.

Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

The quality of being awesome.

The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

Having equal moments of inertia.

An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.…

To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

Quality of being humorsome.

the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.

Trifling. [R.] "Immoment toys." Shak.

Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. [R.] A. Seward.