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To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

The act of abacinating. [R.]

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.

or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

Stealing cattle on a large scale. [Obs.]

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

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

ments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.

See Albicore.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short.

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

See Barbican.

See Barbicanage.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.