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The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.

a. & n. from Rub, v.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces. Slabbing machine, a milling machine.

from Slub. Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.

A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly. Bp. Parker.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Secret entrance. [R.] Boyle.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

ubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced…

cott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack. [Obs.]

The act of rubbing against. [Obs.]

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.