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hich does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

r; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

han his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

ting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

luding the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

Banded or marked with circles. Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

ted, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton. I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak.

Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.