Search the Dictionary

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.

See Yuen.

The letter Y.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

rson to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

act; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

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

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.