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The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

Inflammation of a vein.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n.

a. (Anat.) Situated in front or the orbit.

ried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope.

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson.

One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.

That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

The hunting of rabbits. T. Hughes.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action if acid. Fairholt.

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.

Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.