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To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

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

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab. Sir W. Scott.

ar; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

k and forth, backwards and forwards; to and fro. -- To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of f…

To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. Shak. Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by d…