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, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.

nat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band, axial fiber, and cylinder axis. -- Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. -- Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal…

and forth, backwards and forwards; to and fro. -- To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]

ore Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate. -- Base ring (Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. H. L. Scott.

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.

Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

A band. [Obs.] Spenser.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.