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Crooked. [Obs.] "Corbe shoulder." Spenser.

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. [Obs.]

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. Shak.

See 1st Dor.

Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.

A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia.

orous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifrea. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.

hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.

Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. Foul exorbitant desires. Milto…

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

To go out of the track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.

imp. of Forbid.

To bathe. [Obs.]

An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] "Your forbears of old." Sir W. Scott.