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right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. [Obs.]

See Abb.

nt of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. Encyc. Brit. Abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.…

rly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

See Aberr.]

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.) above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things. Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Catharsis, below.

See Abridge. [Obs.]

See Apricot. [Obs.]

applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

See Abscission.

See Abscissa.

See Apsis.

perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.