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To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.

The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri. [R.]

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.

To utter with a loud voice; to shout out. Though he may vociferate the word liberty. V. Knox.

To wound; to hurt. [Obs.]

A rate or tax for a supply of water.

a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

t on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; 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.

bbeys. Encyc. Brit. Abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

x finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

tance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.