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The chiff-chaff. [Prov. Eng.]

A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

One who, or that which, thumps.

Heavy; large. [Colloq.]

More than human; superhuman. [R.] Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.

To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

Not human; inhuman.

To render inhuman or barbarous. J. Barlow.

A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat. [Written also zythem.]

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.

Lowered; humbled.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

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

Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.

One who abhors. Hume.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.