ACTRESS-ACUPUNCTURE.

the respective counsel for the parties Actor and Alter. ACTRESS, ak'tres, s. (actrice, Fr.) She who performs anything: a female stage-player. ACTUAL, ak tu-al, a. (actualis, Lat. actuel, Fr.) Comprising action; really existing in act; not merely potential or speculative. Actual sin, or transgression, in Theology, sin committed by a person himself, as opposed to original sin, or the corruption of human nature, supposed by some to be communicated from our first parents. Actual cautery, burning by a red-hot iron opposed to a cautery; a caustic application that may produce the same effect upon the body by a different pro

cess.

ACURA ADAM.

ACURA, ak'u-ra, s. The name given in India to fragrant aloe-wood.

Acrs, a'kus, s. (Latin.) In Zoology, the Need I fish, or Gar-fish; the Ammodyte, or Sand-eel; als the oblong Cimex, an insect.

ACUTE, a-kute', a. (contus, Lat.) Sharp; endin in a point; ingenious, having quick sensibility c discernment; penetrating; vigorous; powerfu In Music, an acute tone is one which is sharp c high. In Botany, ending in an acute angle, as leaf or perianth. Acute accent, that which raise or sharpens the voice, marked ('). Acute disease any disease that is attended with an increased velo city of blood, and terminates in a few days; opposed to chronical.

ACTUALNESS, ak'tu-al-nes, s. The quality of being actual.

ACTUARY, ak'tu-ar-e, s. (actuarius, Lat.) The registrar or clerk of a court of law. The name is sometimes assumed by the clerks of some of the societies in the metropolis or other large cities. ACTUATE, ak'tu-ate, v. a. To put into action; to invigorate or increase the powers of motion; to move or incite to action;-a. put in action, animate; brought into effect.

ACTUATED, ak ́tu-ay-ted, part. Put into motion. ACTUATION, ak-tu-a'shun, s. Operation; state of being put in action; the quality of bringing into effect.

ACTIS, ak'tus, s. In Antiquity, a measure equal to

120 Roman feet. In Roman Agriculture, the length of the furrow.

ACUATE, ak'u-ate, r. a. (acuo, Lat.) To sharpen; to make pungent or corrosive. ACUBENE, ak ́ku-be-ne, s. A star of the fourth magnitude in the southern claw of Cancer. ACUITY, a-ku'e-te, s. (acuitie, Fr.) Sharpness. ACULEATE, a-ku'le-ate, a. (aculeatus, Lat.) ACULEATED, a-kule-ay-ted, Prickly; having a sharp point. In Botany, having aculei. In Zoology, having a sting.

ACULEATES, a-ku'le-ayts, s. (aculeus, a prickle, Lat.) A tribe of Hymenopterous insects, in which the females and neuters are provided with a sting concealed in the hinder segment of the abdomen. ACULEI, a-ku le-i, s. (pl. of aculeus.) Prickles or spines arising from the bark and not from the

wood.

ACULON, ak'u-lon,) s. (akulos, Gr.) The fruit or ACULOS, ak'u-los, acorn of the Ilex or Scarlet

oak. ACUMEN, a-ku'men, s. (Latin.) A sharp point; figuratively, quickness of the intellectual faculties. ACIMINATE, a-ku ́me-nate, v. a. (acumen, Lat.) To whet or sharpen;-c. n. to rise like a cone;-a. sharp.

ACUMINATED, a-ku'me-nate-ed, a. (acuminatus, Lat.) Sharp-pointed.

ACUMINATION, a-ku-me-na'shun, s. Sharp-pointedness.

ACUMINOUS, a-ku'me-nus, a.

Sharp-pointed.

tellect; quickness and vigour of the senses; violent and speedy crisis of a disease; sharpness or elevation of sound.

ACUTIATOR, a-ku ́she-ay-tur, s. A name given before the invention of fire-arms, to persons who attended armies for the purpose of sharpening swords and other instruments of war.

ACYNOS, as'e-nos, s. (the Greek name of a plant probably related to Thymus.) A genus of plants: Order, Lamiaceæ.

extent.

Ad

AD, (Latin.) A prefix, signifying to or nearness. In Composition, the last letter is usually changed into the first letter of the word to which it is prefixed, as acclumo, aggredior, affirmo, allego, appono, arripio, attineo; for adclamo, adgredior, adfirmo, adlego, adpono, adrippio, adtineo. captandum, to captivate. Ad captandum vulgas, to please and attract the populace. Ad indefinitum, to any indefinite extent. Ad infinitum, to endless Ad interim, in the mean time, for the present. Ad inquirendum, a judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of anything relating to a cause depending in courts. Ad pondus omnium, the weight of the whole. Ad hominum, to the man; in Logic, an argument adapted to touch the prejudices of the person addressed. Ad libitum, at pleasure. Ad valorem, according to the value. ADACT, a-dakt', v. a. (adago, Lat.) To drive; to compel.

God himself once compelled the wicked Egyptians, by flies, and frogs, and grasshoppers, and other such contemptible worms, to confess the power of his divine ma

jesty; not vouchsafing to adact them by any other of his creatures more worthy.-Fotherby. ADACTYLE, a-dak'tile, a. («, priv. and daktylos, a finger, Gr.) Having no digits or fingers; -8. an animal with digits.

ADAGE, ad'aje, s. (adagium, Lat.) A maxim; a proverb or wise saying handed down from former times.

Fine fruits of learning; old ambitious fool, Dost thou apply that adage of the school, As if there's nothing worth that lies conceal'd, And science is not science till revealed?-Dryden. Smith on Old Age uses adagy for adage. ADAGIAL, a-da je-al, a. (French.) Proverbial. ADAGIO, a-da je-o, or a-daj'e-o, s. (Italian.) A term used by musicians to mark slow time. ADAM, ad'am, s. According to Scripture, the first of the human race. It is considered by Webster as connected with the Hebrew and Chaldee damah, to be like or equal-whence the sense of likeness, image of God, in which he is said to have been

ADAMANT-ADARCE.

ked. Adam's apple, a species of citron; also, eminent part of the throat, so called from a stings notion that a piece of the forbidden ck in Adam's throat, and occasioned this ence. Adam's needle, a plant of the genus D WANT, D'a-mant, & (adamas, Lat. from a, priv. and dates, I sabúne, Gr.) A stone, imagined by wers to be of impenetrable hardness; the dia: used also for the loadstone.

Ya draw me, you hard-hearted adamant.—Shaks. ADAXANTEAN, nd-a-man-te ́an, a. (adamanteus, La Hard as adamant.

IN ZANTINE, ad-a-man ́tine, a. (adamantinus, Lat.) tre nature of adamant; extremely hard. Adamandine par, the crystals of the mineral Coruntam are so named from their being of excessive

ABANIA, a-da'me-a, s. in honour of John Adam, e time governor of India, a promoter of Natural Edry) A genus of plants, natives of Nepaul: Hydrangeaceæ. APAZITES, ad'a-mitse, s. pl. (from Adam.) An om sect of heretics, but renewed by the Geranabaptista, who prayed naked.

Ita racher be an adamite, and bring fig-tree leaves mate again.—Beas, and Fletcher.

Admitar impudence.-Bishop Taylor. ADANSONIA, ad-an-so'ne-a, s. (after Michael AdanEuropean Sour-gourd, Monkey's-bread, or Betes-tree. The A. digitata, or Baobab, forms Aprons of the order Bombaceae. It is considered be the largest or rather broadest tree in the Several trunks measured by M. Adanson

were from 65 to 78 feet in circumference. Some species on the coast of Africa are said to indiate an antiquity of 5000 years. ADAPIS, ad ́a-pis, 8. (the Hyrax of Gesner.) The

e given by Cuvier to a genus of fossil Mamza, fand in the Eocene formation at Paris. It considered to have been intermediate between the Pachyderms, or thick-skinned animals, and the Hedgehog.

Acart, a-dapt', v. a. (ad, and apto, to fit, Lat.) To ft me thing to another; to suit; to proportion. ADAPTABLE, a-dapt ́a-bl, u. That which may be

ADAPTABILITY, 2-dap-ta-bil'e-te, ADAPTABLENESS, a-dapt'a-bl-nes, lity of adaptation.

ADAPTATION, a-dap-ta'shun, s.

The act of fitting me thing to another; the fitness of one thing to mother.

ADAPTEDNESS, a-dap'ted-nes, s, The state of beag 6tted; suitableness. ADAPTION, a-dap'shun, s. The act of fitting. Prudent adaptions.—Cheyne. ADAPTNESS, a-dapt'nes, s. The state of being fitted. Adaptness of the sound.-B. Newton. ADAR, a'dar, s. (from adur, to be glorious, Heb. from the exuberance of vegetation in Egypt and Syria in that month.) The twelfth month of the Jewecclesiastical, and sixth of the civil, year, inelading a part of February and of March. ADAC, dárse, s. (adarkes, Gr.) A name given to a saltish concretion on reeds and grasses, in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is lax and porous, like bastard-spange, and is used in leprosy, tetters, &c.

ADARCON-ADDITION.

ADARCON, a-dár'kon, s. In Jewish Antiquity, gold coin, value about 25s. sterling. The principal impression on it was a crowned archer. ADARME, a-dăr ́me, s. A Spanish weight equal to the sixteenth of an ounce. The Spanish ounce is seven per cent. lighter than that of Paris. ADATIS, ad'a-tis, s. A muslin, or species of cotton cloth from India. It is fine and clear: the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters wide. ADAUNT, a-dawnt', v. a. (a and daunt.) To subdue. -Obsolete. He adaunted the rage

Of a lyon savage.-Skelton's Poems. ADAW, a-daw', v. a. (ad, to, and awe?) To daunt; to keep under; to subdue.-Obsolete.

The sight thereof did greatly him adaw.-Spenser. ADAYS, a-daze', ad. In these times. This word is generally connected with now, forming nowadays, which Dr. Johnson pronounces barbarous; the words were written separately by our old authors. That duly a days counts nine.-Spenser.

ADCORPORATE, ad kawr'po-rate, v. a. (ad, and corpus, a body.) To unite one body to another; to accorporate-Not used.

ADD, ad, v. a. (addo; ad and do, I give or put to, Lat.) To join or unite to; to join one sum to another; to increase the number; to increase the quantity; to augment; to subjoin.

ADDAX, ad'daks, s. A species of antelope. ADDECIMATE, ad-des'se-mate, v. a. (ad, and decimus, ten, Lat.) To take, or to ascertain tithes. ADDEEM, ad-deem', v. a. (from deem.) To esteem; to account; to award; to sentence.-Obsolete.

So unto him they did addeem the prize.-Spenser. ADDENDUM, ad-den'dum, s. (Latin.) An addition or appendix to a book; any addition, generally speaking. In the plural, addenda.

ADDER, ad'dur, s. (atter, or attor, Sax.) A poisonous serpent of the Viper family. Adder's-tongue, a fern of the genus Ophioglossum. Adder's-wort, same as snakeweed. Adder-fly, a local name of the dragon-fly.

ADDIBILITY, ad-de-bil'e-te, s. The possibility of being added.

ADDIBLE, ad'de-bl, a. That may be added.
ADDICE.-See Adze.

ADDICT, ad-dikt', v. a. (addico, Lat.) To devote to; to accustom; to dedicate: taken commonly in a bad sense, as, addicted to vice. ADDICTEDNESS, ad-dik'ted-nes, s. The state of being addicted.

ADDICTION, ad-dik'shun, s. (addictio, Lat.) The

act of devoting or giving up; the state of being devoted. Among the Romans, addiction was a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also, an assignment of debtors in service to their creditors.

ADDITAMENT, ad-dit'a-ment, s. (additamentum, Lat.) Addition; the thing added, as the furniture of a house; any material mixed with the principal ingredient in a compound.

ADDITION, ad-dish'shun, s. (additio, Lat.) The act of adding one thing to another; the thing added. In Arithmetic and Algebra, the summation of numbers or quantities; the uniting two or more numbers into one sum; the branch of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. Simple addition is the adding of numbers or quantities of the same denomination, as pounds to pounds, shil

ADDITIONAL-ADDULCE.

In

lings to shillings, or pence to pence. Compound addition is the adding of sums of different denominations, as pounds, shillings, and pence. Law, a title annexed to a person's name to show his rank, occupation, or place of residence, as, William Smart, Esq., Thomas Gray, baker, Mr. Bolton of Leeds, &c. In Scottish Law, designation of the same meaning. In Music, a dot at the side of a note, to lengthen it one half. In Heraldry, something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour. In popular language, an advantage, ornament, or improvement. ADDITIONAL, ad-dish'un-al, a. That is added. ADDITIONALLY, ad dish'un-al-le, ad. In addition. ADDITIONARY, ad-dish'un-a-re, a. That may be

added.

ADDITITIOUS, ad-de-tish'us, a. Added by authority. ADDITORY, ad'de-tur-e, a. Having the power or

quality of adding.

ADDLE, ad'dl, a. (hadyl, corrupt, Welsh, adlian, to be empty, sick, or weak, Sax.) In a morbid state; putrid, as a rotten egg;

If you love an adulle egg, as well as you love an idle head,

You would eat chicken i' the shell.-Shaks. -v. a. to make corrupt or morbid. Addle-headed, or addle-pated, barren-brained; void of intellectual endowment.

ADDOOM, ad-doom', v. a. (from ad and doom.) To adjudge. Obsolete.

ADDORSED, ad-dawrst', a. (ad, and dorsum, the back, Lat.) In Heraldry, back to back. ADDRESS, ad-dres', v. a. (addresser, Fr.) To speak or write to a person or persons; to direct a letter, petition, &c.; to prepare one's self for entering upon any action or enterprise;

This ended parle, and both address'd for fight.-Milton. to direct;

So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
In serpent, inmate bad! and toward Eve
Address'd his way.-Milton.

to court. In Commerce, to consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor;-8. a verbal application to a person, made by way of persuasion or petition; a speaking to; courtship, generally used in the plural, as, he paid his addresses to Miss -; manner of addressing people; manners; the name and place, or title, by which a person is distinguished, inscribed on a letter or other document.

ADDRESSER, ad-dres'sur, s. The person who addresses or petitions.

ADDUCE, ad-duse', v. a. (adduco; ad, and duco, I lead, Lat.) To bring forward; to urge; to allege. ADDUCENT, ad-du'sent, a. (adducens, bringing forward, Lat.) A word applied to those muscles which bring forward, close, or draw together the parts of the body to which they are attached. ADDUCER, ad-du'sur, s. One who adduces.

ADDUCIBLE, ad-du ́se-bl, a. That may be brought

forward.

ADDUCTION, ad-duk ́shun, s. The act of adducing or bringing forward.

ADDUCTIVE, ad-duk ́tiv, a. That brings forward. ADDUCTOR, ad-duk ́tur, s. (Latin.) A muscle whose office is to bring one part to another. Its antagonist is called an abductor,-which see. ADDULCE, ad-duls', v. a. (adoucir, Fr. ad, and dulcis, sweet, Lat.) To sweeten.- Obsolete. With many sugared words they seek to addulce all matters.-Bacon.

ADEB-ADENILEMA.

ADEB, ad'eb, 8. An Egyptian weight of 210 okes each of three rotolos, equal to about two dram less than the English pound. At Rosetta, an ade is only 150 okes.

O

ADELANTADO, ad-el-an-ta'do, 8. The governor a Spanish province; a lieutenant-governor. ADELING, ad'e-ling, 8. (edel, illustrious, and ling representative, or progeny, Sax.) A title among the Anglo-Saxons, properly appertaining to the king's children.

ADELITE, ad'el-ite, s. A name formerly given in Spain to conjurors, who predicted the fortunes of persons by the flight and singing of birds, and other accidental circumstances. The Adelites were also called Almogarans.

ADELOBOTRYS, a-de lo-bot-ris, s. (adelos, obscure, and botrys, a raceme, Gr. in reference to the flowers not being sufficiently known.) A genus of plants, natives of Guiana: Order, Melasto

macer.

S.

ADELOBRANCHIATA, a-de-lo-brangk-ke-a ́ta, (adelos, hidden or concealed; a, priv. and delos, apparent, and branchia, Gr.) A name given by Dumeril to a family of the Gasteropods; by G. Ficher, to a section of the same order; and by G. Hartman, to a section, comprehending all those molluscs which have their respiratory organs exteriorly invisible.

ADELODERMA, a-de-lo-der'ma, s. (adelos, and derma, skin, Gr.) A name given by Ferrussac and Menke to a suborder of the Gasteropods, which have their respiratory organs concealed by the skin. ADELOGENOUS, a-de-loj'e-nus, a. (adelos, and gennao, I produce, Gr.) A term proposed by Brongniart and C. Prevost, for rocks which appear to be composed of only one substance, resulting from a mixture of extremely minute parts, and offering none of the positive characters of any known mineral.

ADELOPNEUMONA, a-de-lo-nu'mo-na, s. (adelos, and pneumon, a lung, Gr.) A name given by Gray to an order of Gasteropods, the respiratory organs of which are concealed in the interior of the body.

ADELOPODE, a-del'o-pode, s. (adelos, and pous, a foot, Gr.) An animal whose feet are not apparent. ADELPHIA, a-del'fe-a, s. (adelphos, a brother, Gr.) A name given in the Linnaan system of botany to plants, the stamens of whose flowers are aggregated into a bundle.

ADELPHIC, a-del'fik, a. In Botany, having the stamens into a parcel or parcels. ADEMPTION, a-dem'shun, s. (ademo; ad, and emo, I take, Gr.) Taking away; privation. In Law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like. ADENALGIA, a-de-nal'je-a, s. (aden, a gland, and algos, pain, Gr.) Pain seated in a gland; a painful swelling in a gland. ADENANDRIA, a-de-nan'dre-a, s. (aden, a gland, and aner, a male, Gr.) A genus of plants, consisting of evergreen herbs: Order, Rutacea. ADENARLE, a-de-na're-a, s. (aden, a gland, Gr. in reference to the petals, calyxes, and ovarium being beset with glandular dots.) A genus of plants, consisting of trees, natives of South America: Order, Lythraceæ.

ADENILEMA, a-de-ne-le'ma, s. (aden, a gland, and leme, gum, Gr. from glands being on the calyx.) A genus of plants, natives of Java: Order, Spiræ

acer.

ADHERENTLY-ADINOLE.

church; one who follows the fortunes of another; anything outwardly belonging to a person. In Zoology and Botany, a part of any animal or plant united more or less intimately with the surrounding parts. ADHERENTLY, ad-he'rent-le, ad. In an adherent

manner.

ADHERER, ad-he'rur, s. One who adheres. ADHESION, ad-he ́shun, s. (adhæsio, Lit.) The act of sticking to. Adhesion is generally used in a moral sense, as, the adhesion of iron to the magnet, the adherence of a partizan. In Physics, that tendency by which two bodies are attached to one another, in virtue of the power of attraction, when they are placed in contact. In Pathology, the word is used in the same sense as Adherence. ADHESIVE, ad-he'siv, a. Sticking; tenacious. ADHESIVELY, ad-he'siv-le, ud. In an adhesive

manner.

ADHESIVENESS, ad-he'siv-nes, 8. Tenacity; viscosity.

ADHIB, ad'hib, s. A star of the sixth magnitude, upon the garment of the constellation Andromeda, under the last star in her foot.

ADHIBIT, ad-hib ́it, v. a. (adhibeo, Lat.) To apply;
to make use of: to put to.
ADHIBITION, ad-he-bish'un, 8. Application; use.
ADHORTATION, ad-hawr-t (shun, s. (adhortatio,
Lat.) Advice earnestly given.-Obsolete.
ADHORTATORY, ad-hawrt'a-tor-e, a. Advisory.-
Obsolete.

ADIANTUM, a-de-an'tum, s. (adiantos, dry, Gr.)
Maiden's-hair; a genus of Ferns. The name adi-
antum is given on account of the leaves being
usually free of moisture, while others are wet.
ADIAPHORACY, a-de af'o-ra-se, 3. (adiaphoria,
ADIAPHORY, a-de-af'o-re,
Gr) Indiffer-
ence; neutrality; a matter of indifference.-Not
used.

ADIAPHORESIS, a-de-a-fo-re'sis, s. (adinphoros, indifferent, Gr.) Suppressed cutaneous perspiration; nearly synonymous with Adiapneustia. ADIAPHORISTS, a-de-afo-rists, 8. plu. (adiaphoADIAPHORITES, a-de-af ́o-ritse, ros, indifferent, Gr.) In Ecclesiastical History, moderate Lutherans, a name given in the sixteenth century to certain persons who followed Melancthon, who was more pacific than Luther. They regarded some opinions and ceremonies as indifferent, which Luther condemned as sinful and heretical. ADIAPHOROUS, a-de-afo-rus, a. Indifferent; neutral; applied by Boyle to a spirit distilled from tartar, and some other vegetable substances, which, being neither acid nor alkaline, does not possess the distinct character of any chemical compound body.

ADIAPNEUSTIA, a-de-ap-nu'ste-a, s. (a, priv. dia, through, and pneo, I perspire, Gr.) Defective or impeded perspiration.

ADIEU, a-du', ad. (from a Dieu, to God, used elliptically for a Dieu je vous commende, I commend you to God.) Farewell;-s. a parting compliment; Now while I take my last adieu.-Prior. a farewell, implying commendation to the care of

God. ADINA, a-dina, s. (adinos, crowded, Gr. the flowers being disposed in heads.) A genus of plants, consisting of glabrous shrubs, natives of China: Order, Cinchonaceæ.

ADINOLE.-See Petrosilex.

ADIPOCERATE-ADJOURN.

ADIPOCERATE, ad-e-pos'e-rate, v. a. To conve into adipocere. The pr

ADIPOCERATION, ad-e-po-se-ra'shun, 8. cess of changing into adipocere.

ADIPO. ERE, ad ́e-po-sere, s. (adeps, fat, and cer wax, Lat. A fatty spermaceti-like substanc into which muscle is converted by long immersic in water or spirit, or by burial in moist places. ADIPOSE, ad'e-pose,) a. (adipeur, Fr. adeps, fa ADIPOUS, ad'e-pus, Lat.) Fatty. Adipose cel are those vesicles which contain the fat. Adipos membrane, the tissue which encloses the fat i animal bodies. Adipose tumour, a large fatt swelling. Adipose vein, a vein arising from th descending truk of the cava, which spreads itsel on the coat and fat that covers the kidneys. ADIPSIA, a-dip'se-a, s. (a, without, and dipsa, thirst Gr.) The total absence of thirst.

The act of go

ADIT, adit, s. (aditus, an entrance, Lat.) The horizontal or inclined entrance to a mine. ADITION, a-dish'un, s. (adeo, Lat.) ing to another.-Not used. ADJACENCE, ad-ja'sens, s. (aljacens, Lat.) The ADJACENCY, ad-ja'sen-se, state of lying close to another thing; that which is adjacent.-Improper in this sense. ADJACENT, ad-ja'sent, a. Lying near, close, or contiguous to; borderig upon. In Geometry, adjacent angle, is an angle immediately contiguous to another, so that one side is common to both angles-s. that which lies next or contiguous to anything.

That which hath no bounds nor borders must be infi

nite: but Almighty God hath no bounds, because nothing Fordereth upon him, and there is nothing above him to confine him: he hath no adjacent, no equal, no co-rival.Shelford.

ADJACENTLY, ad-ja'sent-le, ad. In such a manner as to be next or heir to; contiguously. ADJECT, ad-jekt', r. a. (adjicio; ad and jacio, 1 throw, Lat) To add to; to put to another thing. ADJECTION, ad-jek'shun, s. The act of adjecting or adding; the thing added. ADJECTITIOUS, ad-jek-tish ́us, a. Added; thrown in upon the rest.

ADJECTIVE, ad'jek-tiv, s. (adjectivum, Lat.) In Grammar, a word put before a noun or after it to express some quality, manner, or circumstance respecting it, as, a sober man, a delightful landscape, a soul serene;-a. colours are said to be adjective which require to be fixed by some base or mordant in order to render them permanent. ADJECTIVELY, ad ́jek-tiv-le, ad. In the manner of ADJOIN, ad-joyn', v. a. (adjoindre, Fr. from adjunan adjective. go, Lat.) To join; to unite; to put to;-v. n. to be contiguous to; to lie next to. ADJOINANT, ad-joyn'ant, a. Contiguous to-s.a person who lives contiguous to; a neighbour.Obsolete.

By newe alliaunce, he (James K. of Scottes) sought and forein princes, to greve and hurt his neibors and adjoynpractised wales and meanes how to joyn hymself with auntes of the realme of England.-Hall. ADJOURN, ad-jurn', v a. (adjourner, Fr.) To put off to another time, naming the day; to put off; to postpone; to defer till another time. Webster quotes the following passage as an intransitive meaning of the verb.-This is an error.

It was moved that the parliament should adjourn for six weeks: its sittings is understood.