n. [ D. abeel (abeel-boom), OF. abel, aubel, fr. a dim. of L. albus white. ] The white poplar (Populus alba). [ 1913 Webster ]
Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who beleaguers. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i.
v. t.
v. t. To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; dart, fr. &unr_; dart, fr. &unr_; to throw: cf. F. bélemnite. ] (Paleon.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. --
n. an order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas.
v. t.
a. Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. [ 1913 Webster ]
From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (O. Eng. Law) A collector of gabels or taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no glebe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who labels.
n. One who libels.
n. (Bot.) A small lobe; a lobule. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A little ruby. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]