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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

A·tween" (?), adv. or prep. [See Atwain, and cf. Between.] Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

A·twirl" (?), a. & adv. [Pref. a- + twist.] Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.

A·twite" (?), v. t. [OE. attwyten, AS. ætwītan. See Twit.] To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

A·twixt" (?), adv. Betwixt. [Obs.] Spenser.

A·two" (?), adv. [Pref. a- + two.] In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A·typ"ic (?), A·typ"ic·al, a. [Pref. a- not + typic, typical.] That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

Au`bade" (?), n. [F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus white.] An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove.

The crowing cock . . .
Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear.
Longfellow.

Au`baine" (?), n. [F., fr. aubain an alien, fr. L. alibi elsewhere.] Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré.

-- Droit d'aubaine (?), the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

Aube (?), n. [See Ale.] An alb. [Obs.] Fuller.

Au`berge" (?), n. [F.] An inn. Beau. & Fl.

Au"bin (?), n. [F.] A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.


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