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A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

To take the spars, stakes, or bars from. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. Burke.

A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.

A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

The reed warbler. [Prov. Eng.]

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

tual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

nding; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

aw) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

To render sharp or keen. [R.] "To acuminate even despair." Cowper.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.