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The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.

Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.

hak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

ticle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

lities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

askmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

phia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.