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A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

Same as Banderole.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

Having crooked legs.

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

Closely united.

Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.