The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

of Sovereignty

See Biforate.

A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.

The quality or state of being speedy.

A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

The Infusoria.

One who spurns.

The sphenethmoid bone.

To dip.

Incomprehensible.

Not capable of being contained within limits.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Cloth or garments of a plain white color.

The state of being reduced to fibers.

Assonant.

Alt. of Acraze

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.

of Amount

Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.

The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2. Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

One who works at a willying machine.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.