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One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. South.

In a usurping manner.

to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic] Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii. 19. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine…

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel.

Blushing; ruddy.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

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.

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.