Hierarchal

a.

Alt. of Hierarchic

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Resistance

n.

A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.

However

adv.

At all events; at least; in any case.

Sand

v. t.

To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

Valvule

n.

A small valvelike process.

Zante

n.

See Zantewood.

Forefend

v. t.

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

Abba

n.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

Hippocampus

n.

A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.

Scapula

n.

The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

Realty

n.

Loyalty; faithfulness.

Unget

v. t.

To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.

Flat

superl.

Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.