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A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Sister. [Obs.] Chaucer. There are seven sustren, that serve truth ever. Piers Plowman.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market an…

A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.]

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.] Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

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

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

ellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that…

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to e…

, abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.