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The quality or state of being tough.

To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Not fraught; not burdened.

To recall, as former laughter. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. More.

Brought up; educated. [Obs.] Spenser.

Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.

sky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.

A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.

A large draught of any liquid. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Through which. [R.] "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought [created]! Chaucer.

Enough. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted…

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

le. A priori, that is, form 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.

To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

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