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An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

The letter h or H.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

See Ætiology.

Obeisance. [Obs.] Jonson.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Mentioned or recited before.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson.

One who acclaims.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.

Acquainted. [Obs.]

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.