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A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent.

A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

To turn upside down; to subvert; to upset. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key. Keats.

Not turned; not revolved or reversed. To leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing untried for accomplishing one's purpose. [He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. Dryden.

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster. So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to…

most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

tion of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

To renounce on oath. Bp. Burnet.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.