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Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.

See Rokeage. [Local, U. S.]

ially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow. Addison.

A country bumpkin. [Eng.] Dickens.

A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Yokefellow.

orten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

n. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

tely upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

Crookedly. [R.] Udall.

of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.