v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abandoned p. pr. & vb. n. Abandoning. ] [ OF. abandoner, F. abandonner; a (L. ad) + bandon permission, authority, LL. bandum, bannum, public proclamation, interdiction, bannire to proclaim, summon: of Germanic origin; cf. Goth. bandwjan to show by signs, to designate OHG. ban proclamation. The word meant to proclaim, put under a ban, put under control; hence, as in OE., to compel, subject, or to leave in the control of another, and hence, to give up. See Ban. ] 1. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mar. Law) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; resign; abdicate; quit; relinquish; renounce; desert; forsake; leave; retire; withdraw from. -- To Abandon, Desert, Forsake. These words agree in representing a person as giving up or leaving some object, but differ as to the mode of doing it. The distinctive sense of abandon is that of giving up a thing absolutely and finally; as, to abandon one's friends, places, opinions, good or evil habits, a hopeless enterprise, a shipwrecked vessel. Abandon is more widely applicable than forsake or desert. The Latin original of desert appears to have been originally applied to the case of deserters from military service. Hence, the verb, when used of persons in the active voice, has usually or always a bad sense, implying some breach of fidelity, honor, etc., the leaving of something which the person should rightfully stand by and support; as, to desert one's colors, to desert one's post, to desert one's principles or duty. When used in the passive, the sense is not necessarily bad; as, the fields were deserted, a deserted village, deserted halls. Forsake implies the breaking off of previous habit, association, personal connection, or that the thing left had been familiar or frequented; as, to forsake old friends, to forsake the paths of rectitude, the blood forsook his cheeks. It may be used either in a good or in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. abandon. fr. abandonner. See Abandon, v. ] Abandonment; relinquishment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Abandon. ] A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Forsaken, deserted. “Your abandoned streams.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abandons. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. abandonnement. ] 1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mar. Law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com. Law) (a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Andorra. Population (2000) = 22, 390. [ PJC ]

n. 1. dark grayish extrusive rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Band + dog, i.e., bound dog. ] A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. [ 1913 Webster ]

The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandoulière (cf. It. bandoliera, Sp. bandolera), fr. F. bande band, Sp. & It. banda. See Band, n. ] 1. A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. allied to band. ] A glutinous pomatum for the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bandon. See Abandon. ] Disposal; control; license. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. bandurria, fr. L. pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, fr. Gr. pandoy^ra a three-stringed musical instrument. Cf. Pandore, Banjo, Mandolin. ] A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see bandura. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Prob. fr. can + dock (the plant). Cf. G. kannenkraut horsetail, lit. “canweed.” ] (Bot.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also candour. ] [ L. candor, fr. candëre; cf. F. candeur. See candid. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor yor unquestioned integrity
Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot
That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. See Command, v. t. ] 1. In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a usually small military unit trained to perform special missions, often behind enemy lines, and usually employing hit-and-run tactics. Such units often have the destruction of fixed targets, such as enemy installations, as their mission, in contrast to normal combat units which engage the enemy army directly. [ PJC ]

3. a member of a commando{ 2 } unit. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. farandole, Pr. farandoulo. ] A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖adv. [ It., prop. p. p. of forzare to force. ] (Mus.) See Sforzato. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖‖/mhw>, n. [ F. fricandeau; cf. Sp. fricandó. ] (Cookery) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Gyrate. ] 1. An ornate ornamental branched candlestick, often with a mirror at the back. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pyrotechny) A kind of revolving firework. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) A series of chambers in defensive mines. Farrow.

n. & a. [ As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding. ] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Football) A football play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. money or an object given in or as in a charitable gesture; -- also used of government disbursements to individuals for welfare; as, government hand-outs to welfare clients. [ PJC ]

2. a printed circular distributed gratis, usually for political or advertising purposes. [ PJC ]

3. a printed statement distributed, usually to the news media. [ PJC ]

n. The act of relinquishing property or authority etc. to another; as, the handover of occupied territory to the original posssessors; the handover of power from the military back to the civilian authorities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Dodman. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infandus; pref. in- not + fari to speak. ] Too odious to be expressed or mentioned. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An owner of land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The owning of land. -- a. Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It., p. pr. of lentare to make slow. See Lent, a. ] (Mus.) Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. See Mandolin. ] (Mus.) An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. mandoline, It. mandolino, dim. of mandola, fr. L. pandura. See Bandore. ] (Mus.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Mandolin, and Bandore. ] (Mus.) A kind of four-stringed lute. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Braz. nhandu or yandu. ] (Zool.) Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia, especially the smallest, Pterocnemia pennata (formerly Rhea Americana), called also the common rhea. They are tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed, found from Peru to the Straits of Magellan. See Rhea. [ Written also nandow. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , a. [ L. nefandus not to be spoken; ne not + fari to speak. ] Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [ Obs. ] “Nefand adominations.” Sheldon. “Nefandous high treason.” Cotton Mather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Pandour. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Bandore. ] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [ Written also pandora, pandoura. pandure, and pandoran. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. They were noted for their ruthlessness. [ Written also pandoor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A brutal soldier. [ PJC ]

n. See pandore . [ PJC ]

n. A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } a. & adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. randon, OF. randon force, violence, rapidity, à randon, de randon, violently, suddenly, rapidly, prob. of German origin; cf. G. rand edge, border, OHG. rant shield, edge of a shield, akin to E. rand, n. See Rand, n. ] 1. Force; violence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counsels, when they fly
At random, sometimes hit most happily. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant! Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]