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Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.

of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant l…

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

ight, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

e courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

s wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

A place of training; a school. "Academies of fanaticism." Hume.

exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.…