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an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.

An inclined percussion table, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp; -- so called after the inventor.

Linsey-woolsey.

Linsey-woolsey.

See Wray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.

The European yellow-hammer. [Prov. Eng.]

See Ceylanite.

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

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

bacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

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

ract; 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.

Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. [Obs.]

Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

uns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

The superior or head of an abbey.

y contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.