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p. p. of Strive.

One who strives.

economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

p. p. of Thrive.

One who thrives, or prospers.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.

A weaver's knife. See Trevat. Knight. Trivet table, a table supported by three legs. Dryden.

To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.

nating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off t…

e mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.] She hath abated me of half my train. Shak.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

egal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

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

abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.