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r as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. [Written also weevilled.]

(a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

Meanly; servilely.

That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

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

R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

[Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor. Beau. & Fl.

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

ent, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.