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Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins. "Comments staler than rabbinic." Lowell.

In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.

A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.

One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

Same as Rabbinist.

The hunting of rabbits. T. Hughes.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] Dryden.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

A strict observer of the Sabbath.

The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward. (1673).

rom the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8.

Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.

Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. Dr. H. More.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath. Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, or argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is call…