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The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

Excision of a varicosity.

Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

chariot. [Obs.] Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. Stow.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

srule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

Perhaps. [Scot.]

and adv. Above. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

carrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise." Prescott.

See Apricot. [Obs.]

or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

ean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

ncapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.

n . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.