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drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc.

The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

Tediousness. [Obs.]

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.

Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper. To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [R.] Boyle.

ile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

Combined with acetic acid.

Furnished with aciculæ.