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A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:

Admission. [R.]

Receiving; admitting. [R.]

A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.

A piece at the end; an appendage.

A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

A pie made of umbles. See To eat humble pie, under Humble.

Made unhappy. [Obs.] Shak.

The water ousel.

In; on; at; by. [Obs.] "A God's name." "Torn a pieces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

To increase; to grow. [Obs.] Gillespie.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.