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ail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott. -- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

A female prater or babbler.

Idle babbling; vain disputation. From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. 1 Tim. i. 6.

Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. x…

A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. [Written also kail, and cale.]

rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists.

The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. Crabb.

any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place. Abbott. You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them. Whately.

An abbreviation of Kilogram.

A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit.

To seize with the teeth; to gnaw. "Knabbing crusts." [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.

a layman or the laity. "Laical literature." Lowell. An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble. Milton.

That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

rted decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. Abbott. -- Leading motive Etym: [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person,…