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The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

ates that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

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.

Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

Flabellate on both sides.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

See Bonnibel. [Obs.] Spenser.

A handsome girl. [Obs.]

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

mination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.