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A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

Ability or capacity to write. [R.] Walpole.

Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

Detestable. "Pride, abhorrent as it is." I. Taylor.

Detestable. [R.]

To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

ing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke.

Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

State of being accepted; acceptableness. "Makes it assured of acceptance." Shak.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

Suitably; fitly. [R.]

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.