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Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Done at an improper time; ill-timed.

A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

Of. [Obs.] "The name of John a Gaunt." "What time a day is it " Shak. "It's six a clock." B. Jonson.

A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.

hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the m…

expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. "I will abide the coming of my lord." Tennyson.

ous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

An untimely birth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

The immature product of an untimely birth.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.

ects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.