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Same as Jobbernowl.

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

Scabbiness.

A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

Shabby. [Obs.] Wood.

To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot.

One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

To swab. [R.]

Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

The superior or head of an abbey.

Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.

An abbes or spiritual mother.

Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. "Asperity of character." Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

right; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.

t erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

e so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.