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A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.

or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe.

By which; -- used relatively. "You take my life when you take the means whereby I life." Shak.

Capacious. [Obs.] Shak.

In; on; at; by. [Obs.] "A God's name." "Torn a pieces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

ach side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

izing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

rm these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

he fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

-- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.