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f with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Tim. v. 13.

That may be abused.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

y; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Full of abuse; abusive. [R.] "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

applied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

eril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

One lying in ambush.

An ambush. [Obs.] 2 Chron. xiii. 13.

A burn or scald. Blount.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.