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Wanting a band or string; unfastened. [Obs.] Shak.

To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank. H. Taylor.

Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.

Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.

The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country. W. Irving.

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish. Howell.

The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

The tire of a wheel.

A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.

hich does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

f abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

r; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

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

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.