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ng neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

Debate; discussion.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

nd indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

To abate or subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

Mitigation; abatement.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

t-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Bilobate.

y called a bridge wall. Aqueduct bridge. See Aqueduct. -- Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the pa…

ting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. -- To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. -- To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the conside…

To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27.

Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.