Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Avoyer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One engaged in an affray. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To look after. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, allays. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. “An alleyed walk.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr.
adj.
n. One who, or that which, annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a resident of Arkansas.
n. One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. ] A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This word is written I in the early editions of Shakespeare and other old writers. [ 1913 Webster ]
For his mercies aye endure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
For aye,
always
n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative;
n. [ From the native name, prob. from its cry. ] (Zool.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Aye ever + green. ] (Bot.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Backward. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
‖n. [ F., lit., a female sweeper. ] A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
n. a natural family inclusing the mole rats and sand rats.
n. a genus consisting of the mole rats.
a. Having a bay or bays. “The large bayed barn.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
adj.
v. t.
Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, betrays. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [ Obs. or Archaic ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A fish of the genus
a. Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. (Bot.) A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
See under Maple. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. of Besee. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Evil biseye,
v. t. To bewray; to reveal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having black eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Bot.)
n. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being blear-eyed. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. having eyes sore or unfocused, due to weariness or excessive drinking; same as blear-eyed{ 1 }.
a. Habitually winking. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
fld>(Bot.) a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. [ 1913 Webster ]