n.; E. pl. Abdominals, L. pl. Abdominales. A fish of the group Abdominales. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. abdominal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., masc. pl. ] (Zool.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. ] (Zool.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abominable. [ A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is abhominable, which he [ Don Armado ] would call abominable. Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ab away from + homo, hominis, man. ] Inhuman. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. abominable. L. abominalis. See Abominate. ] 1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time [ 15th c. ], “abomynable syght of monkes” was elegant English for “a large company of friars.” G. P. Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating. ] [ L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen. ] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. abominacioun, -cion, F. abominatio. See Abominate. ] 1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cause of pollution or wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ac- (for ad to) + criminari. ] To accuse of a crime. [ Obs. ] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. acuminatus, p. p. of acuminare to sharpen, fr. acumen. See Acumen. ] Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render sharp or keen. [ R. ] “To acuminate even despair.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To end in, or come to, a sharp point. “Acuminating in a cone of prelacy.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad + nomen noun. ] (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. agminalis; agmen, agminis, a train. ] Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. agmen, agminis, a train, crowd. ] (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agnominatio. See Agnomen. ] 1. A surname. [ R. ] Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alumen, aluminis. See Alum. ] (Chem.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is the oxide of the metal aluminium, the base of aluminous salts, a constituent of a large part of the earthy siliceous minerals, as the feldspars, micas, scapolites, etc., and the characterizing ingredient of common clay, in which it exists as an impure silicate with water, resulting from the decomposition of other aluminous minerals. In its natural state, it is the mineral corundum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Combined with alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To name. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annominatio. See Agnomination. ] 1. Paronomasia; punning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Alliteration. [ Obs. ] Tyrwhitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. attaminare; ad + root of tangere. See Contaminate. ] To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the balsams, distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers.
Syn. -- family Balsaminaceae, balsam family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + acuminate. ] (Bot.) Having points in two directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + geminate. ] (Bot.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + laminar, laminate. ] Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Binomial. ] Of or pertaining to two names; binomial. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bituminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bituminating. ] [ L. bituminatus, p. p. of bituminare to bituminate. See Bitumen. ] To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. “Bituminated walls of Babylon.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Bromate, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cacumen, cacuminis, the top, point. ] (Philol.) Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. cacuminatus, p. p. of cacuminare to point, fr. cacumen point. ] To make sharp or pointed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. carminativus (1622), fr. carminare to card, hence to cleanse, fr. carmen a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter: cf. F. carminatif. ] Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic. “Carminative hot seeds.” Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cheminage, fr. chemin way, road. ] (Old Law) A toll for passage through a forest. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One bearing the same name; a namesake. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cognominatio. ] A cognomen or surname. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. comminatio, from comminari to threaten; com- + minari to threaten: cf. F. commination. ] 1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. [ 1913 Webster ]

With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those thunders of commination. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. comminatoire. ] Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. conferruminare to cement. See Ferruminate. ] (Bot.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being contaminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contaminated p. pr. & vb. n. Contaminating ] [ L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See Contact. ] To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall we now
Contaminate our figures with base bribes? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

Syn. -- To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]