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To vote or vote with. [Obs.] "Suffragating tribes." Dryden.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

y means of a surplus action or quality. The fervency of one man in prayer can not supererogate for the coldness of another. Milton.

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

The office of a surrogate.

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

A gate where toll is taken.

In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

Having but one pair of leaflets; -- said of a pinnate leaf.

in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone. Woodward.

Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope.

To investigate. [Obs.]

Having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.

Striped; streaked. [Obs.]

To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the Vulgate, or the old Latin version of the Scriptures.

A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

The tailrace of a mill. Knight.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…