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Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

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

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.…

To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

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

Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.

il along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.] Spenser.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

To subdue; to daunt. [Obs.] The sight whereof did greatly him adaw. Spenser.