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Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.

To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Obs.]

Cavilous litigation; cavillation. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.

Moving rapidly round a center; vortical. [R.] Cowper.

A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

inning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

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

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] Skelton.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.

Contiguous. [Obs.] Carew.