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The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

See under Bridge.

Any of several small partridges of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and neighboring regions belonging to the genera Caloperdix, Rollulus, and Melanoperdix.

d to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

See Abridge. [Obs.]

The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

To epitomize; to abridge. Franklin.

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge.

nce of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.

, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

y persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.