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To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

Roundness; plumpness. [R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.

Roundness; a round or circle. [Obs.] Shak.

Imperfectly indurated or hardened.

Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.

The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury. A. Hamilton.

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley.

Covered with verdure. Poe.

Destitute of verdure.

Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. Milton.

To put up with; to endure. [Prov.] Dickens.

To endure; to sustain; to submit to. [Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it. Tennyson.

eaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

To brook; to endure. [Obs.] Shak.

bstance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

To endure; to abide. [Obs.] But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. Spenser.

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

Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.