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Taffy. [Eng.]

To release from a coffle.

A subordinate officer.

Inoffensive.

The generalization that: when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature, the exothermic by lowering it.

Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

ep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or 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- (corru…

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

The state or office of an abbot.

words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

inquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

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

To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne.

ign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)