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trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton.

office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide. The mind umpirage of the federal Union. E. Everett.

A subordinate agent.

Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless. [R.] Your unparagoned mistress is dead. Shak.

The benefice of a vicar.

Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago. Milton.

The qualities or characteristics of a virago.

A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope.

A curtain of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.

Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. [R.] Mallet.

The dingo.

Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water. [Eng.]

The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said with reference to a ship. Sir T. North.

stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

l or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.