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n. [ L. abdomen + Gr. skopei^n to examine. ] (Med.) Examination of the abdomen by means of a laparoscope to detect abdominal diseases. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

prop. n. 1. 1 A genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers.
Syn. -- genus Abelmoschus [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Abscesses [ L. abscessus a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go away; ab, abs + cedere to go off, retire. See Cede. ] (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body caused by infection. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

Cold abscess, (a) an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess. AS (b) an abscess produced by tubercle bacilli, called also tuberculous abscess. AS [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ L. abscessio a separation; fr. absedere. See Abscess. ] A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [ Obs. ] Gauden. Barrough. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism. ] To cut off. [ R. ] “Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abscisio. ] See Abscission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Abscisses See Abscissa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; E. pl. Abscissas, L. pl. Abscissæ. [ L., fem. of abscissus, p. p. of absindere to cut of. See Abscind. ] (Geom.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes. When referred to two intersecting axes, one of them called the axis of abscissas, or of X, and the other the axis of ordinates, or of Y, the abscissa of the point is the distance cut off from the axis of X by a line drawn through it and parallel to the axis of Y. When a point in space is referred to three axes having a common intersection, the abscissa may be the distance measured parallel to either of them, from the point to the plane of the other two axes. Abscissas and ordinates taken together are called coördinates. -- OX or PY is the abscissa of the point P of the curve, OY or PX its ordinate, the intersecting lines OX and OY being the axes of abscissas and ordinates respectively, and the point O their origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abscissio. See Abscind. ] 1. The act or process of cutting off. “Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding. ] [ L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + dăre (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do. ] 1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. [ 1913 Webster ]

That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To hide; to conceal. [ Obs. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the act of running away sectretly (as to avoid arrest).
Syn. -- decampment [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + caulescent. ] (Bot.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. accrescere. See Accrue. ] 1. To accrue. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase; to grow. [ Obs. ] Gillespie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. accrescentia. ] Continuous growth; an accretion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. acescence. See Acescent. ] The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acescens, -entis, p. pr. of acescere to turn sour; inchoative of acere to be sour: cf. F. acescent. See Acid. ] Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance liable to become sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Acquiesced p. pr. & vb. n. Acquiescing [ L. acquiescere; ad + quiescere to be quiet, fr. quies rest: cf. F. acquiescer. See Quiet. ] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede; concur; conform; accept tacitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acquiescence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crim. Law) (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquiescens, -centis; p. pr. ] Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acquiescent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; adeno- + sclerosis. ] (Med.) The hardening of a gland. AS [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. adeps, adipis, fat + -escent. ] Becoming fatty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adnascens, p. pr. of adnasci to be born, grow. ] Growing to or on something else. “An adnascent plant.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fr., fr. L. adolescentia. ] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult. ] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate. ] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adscitus, p. p. of adsciscere, asciscere, to take knowingly; ad + sciscere to seek to know, approve, scire to know. ] Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. “Adscititious evidence.” Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe. ] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adscriptivus. See Adscript. ] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; to look out. ] (Biol.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; a looking out; &unr_; to spy out. ] The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Aesculapius, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Myth.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Esculin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; clear + &unr_; to observe. ] An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. outside regular school hours. a special after-school class [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ L., Scythian lamb. ] (Bot.) The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an airplane propeller.
Syn. -- airplane propeller, prop [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of becoming white; whitishness. [ 1913 Webster ]