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A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.

Of a color between white and brown. Pegge.

A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

A windrow.

One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n.

An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.

p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.

forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek art…

us Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

s a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

lling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

t. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

bs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

resy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]