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A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows. [Prov. Eng.]

Power; authority; rule. [Obs.] To have them in your might and in your wielding. Chaucer.

, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser. Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. Dryden. The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding. Landor.

A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton.

In a winding manner.

The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.

t or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Willingness; desire. [Obs.]

The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

orm of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" 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…

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

lating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

o the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

o which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.