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A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

schus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

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.…

To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

bstitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [Obs.]

A cause of pollution or wickedness.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

ere and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

n the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.