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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.

ely; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.

o assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

ions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

ngs executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

A portable oven in which baking is done. [U.S.] A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. -- Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.…

banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

An act of kindness; good done; charity given.

; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. [You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak.

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

y black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

rk out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.