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A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.
A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.
Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid.
Alt. of Abietine
A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in st...
Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.
A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).
A lady's waiting-maid.
Habiliment.
of Ability
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength...
Alt. of Abyme
The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, a...
Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.
Produced by spontaneous generation.
Same as Abiogenesis.
Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
A medicine that diminishes irritation.
To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
Characterized by abirritation or debility.
3d sing. pres. of Abide.
Abject
4 defs
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
A very abject or low condition; abjectness.
Abjection
3 defs
A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Meanly; servilely.
The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
To take away by judicial decision.
To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
Rejection by judicial sentence.
To unyoke.
Exceptional.
Abjuration
2 defs
A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.
Containing abjuration.
Abjure
3 defs
To renounce on oath.
of Abjure
Renunciation.
One who abjures.
of Abjure
To wean.
Ablactation
2 defs
The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.
To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Non-germinal.
Ablation
3 defs
A carrying or taking away; removal.
Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.
Ablative
3 defs
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
Ablaze
2 defs
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.