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The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

One who teases or vexes.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.

A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

Want of ease; uneasiness. [Obs.]

are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons. Malacca weasel, the rasse. -- Weasel coot, a female or young male of the smew; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel. Called also weasel duck. -- Weasel lemur, a short-tailed lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus). It i…

Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.

The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake. [Local, U. S.]

An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

te giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.

Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifa…

of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

l or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.