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A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

Bribed. [R.] Fuller.

Destitute of money; not rich. [Written also unmonied.] Shenstone.

Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.

An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth.

Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.

See Web, n., 8.

Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish. Bacon.

genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.

Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.

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

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

ract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

o draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

rganisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.