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n which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.

Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser.

To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

g, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.] Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

or their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United St…

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.

A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Beating; throbbing.

Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.] But what's the action we are for now Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau & Fl.

what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak.

The act or practice of robbing; theft. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Shak.