adv.
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. →
of Hovel →
v. i.
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. →
n.
Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character. →
n.
A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide. →
v. t.
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. →
n.
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word. →
E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E. →