☞ When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suspension; temporary suppression. [ 1913 Webster ]

Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the original Aryans. [ Written also Arian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [ Written also Arian. ] [ PJC ]

Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. bayeur, fr. bayer to gape. ] A stupid, clownish fellow. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. [ 1913 Webster ]

The water under me was buoyant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

2. A dry riverbed. [ PJC ]