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To ravish; to violate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Knavishy; deceitfully. [Obs.]

Pavise. [Obs.]

A small lobster. Travis.

Lavish; profuse; prodigal. [Obs.] He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from Bacon. -- Plen"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Plen"ti*ful*ness, n.

ure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood. Dryden.

To expend lavishly. Ld. Lytton.

In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. "Profuse ornament." Kames.

The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

Profuse; lavish; prodigal.[Obs.]

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

To commit rape upon; to ravish. raped first by their assailant, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5. To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.

To transport or ravish. [Obs.] Drayton.

A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

se agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs." W. Irving.

A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism. Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t.