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The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

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

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

To beslobber.

A tattler; a telltale.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

To become clabber; to lopper.

or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

One who catches crabs.

That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.

The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch.

A liar; a deceiver. [Obs.]

One who seizes or grabs.

To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. Addison.

One who jabbers.

In a jabbering manner.

Jabber. [R.] Milton.