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Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly. "A knight well-spoken." Shak.

Same as Quicken tree.

Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. Youatt.

Shaken by the wind; specif. (Forestry),

p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.

§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

rten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

To put up with; to endure. [Prov.] Dickens.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

ing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." Kent.

action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8