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A perturber. [R.]

Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.

A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.

d, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill.

g; proof. [Obs.] When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor.

Probationary.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

The state of being a probationer; novitiate. Locke.

A state of probation.

Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. South.

An examiner; an approver. Maydman.

Serving for trial; probationary. Abp. Bramhall.

Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.

Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.

To recover to the fist, as a hawk. [Obs.]

A collar or cape. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato. [Obs.] Shak.

To abate or diminish. [Obs.] --n.