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, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

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

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

y of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

ng coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

ich satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

A grapestone.

f his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

monisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

See Eaglestone.

ent, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.