n. [ L. ablatio, fr. ablatus p. p. of auferre to carry away; ab + latus, p. p. of ferre carry: cf. F. ablation. See Tolerate. ] 1. A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Extirpation. Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Removing or destroying of a body tissue, especially by a surgical procedure. Dorland. [ AS ]

4. (Geol.) Wearing away; superficial waste, as of glacial ice or snow. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Aerospace) Wearing away of the outer layers of a protective shield or surface by the heat and aerodynamic forces caused by flying through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, as during reentry from space; as, ablation of the heat shield during reentry. [ PJC ]

a. Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation. ] 1. Taking away or removing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Gram.) The ablative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To utter inconsiderately. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Blatant quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Bleat. ] Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. “Harsh and blatant tone.” R. H. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blatant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to of sheep, goats, or calves.
Syn. -- bleat, blat, baa, cry plaintively. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.
Syn. -- bashful, timid, sheepish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Blathered p. pr. & vb. n. Blathering. ] [ Written also blether. ] [ Icel. blaðra. Cf. Blatherskite. ] To talk foolishly, or nonsensically, or concerning matters of no consequence. G. Eliot.
Syn. -- babble, smatter, blether, blither. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also blether. ] Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. Hall Caine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [ Local slang, U. S. ] Barllett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blattered ] [ L. blaterare to babble: cf. F. blatérer to bleat. ] To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [ Archaic ] “The rain blattered.” Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blateratio a babbling. ] Blattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Senseless babble or boasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blatero, -onis. ] A senseless babbler or boaster. [ Obs. ] “I hate such blatteroons.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. entablature: cf. It intavolatura, fr. LL. intabulare to construct a basis; L. in + tabulatum board work, flooring, fr. tabula. See Table. ] (Arch.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is commonly divided into architrave, the part immediately above the column; frieze, the central space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. oblatus, used as p. p. of offerre to bring forward, offer, dedicate; ob (see Ob-) + latus borne, for tlatus. See Tolerate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Geom.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oblate ellipsoid or
Oblate spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. Contrasted with prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Oblate, a. ] (R. C. Ch.) (a) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. (b) One of the Oblati. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being oblate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ LL., fr. L. oblatus. See Oblate. ] (R.C.Ch.) (a) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state. (b) A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery. Addis & Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. oblatio: cf. F. oblation. See Oblate. ] 1. The act of offering, or of making an offering. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

A peculiar . . . oblation given to God. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pin was the usual oblation. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. oblatratus, p. p. of oblatrare to bark against. ] To bark or snarl, as a dog. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Oblata [ NL. See Oblate. ] (Geom.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And all is semblative a woman's part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From sublatus, used as p. p. of tollere to take away. See Tolerate. ] To take or carry away; to remove. [ R. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sublatio, fr. sublatus, used as p. p. of tollere to take away. ] The act of taking or carrying away; removal. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power, or tending, to take away. [ R. ] Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See Table. ] 1. (Paint.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general. Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones. [ 1913 Webster ]