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To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.

Desirous. [Obs.] Ormulum. P. Fletcher.

With yearning.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

The earth. [Obs.] "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.

The year last past; last year.

e, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

tion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and t…

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.