n. [ OF. abeance expectation, longing; a (L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape. ] 1. (Law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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 ]

n. Abeyance. [ R. ] Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in a state of abeyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of North American spring wildflowers.
Syn. -- genus Besseya. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column; they are among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known. Called also cattleya orchid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. of or pertaining to Dewey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Want of provisions; &unr_;ack of food. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Turk., fr. Ar. iyālah. ] Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.niais fresh from the nest, a derivative fr. L. nidus nest. E. an eyas for a nias. See Nest, and cf. Nias, Jashawk. ] (Zoöl.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself. Shak J. H. Walsh [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unfledged, or newly fledged. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies,
His newly budded pinions to assay. Spebser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Eyas + muske the brid. ] An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The lowermost yard on the foremast. [ See Illust. of Ship. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ Icel. Freyja. ] (Scand. Myth.) The daughter of Njörd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [ Written also Frea, Freyia, and Freyja. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Lady Impey, who attempted to naturalize the bird in England. ] (Zool.) An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They are remarkable for the bright color and brilliant matallic hues of their plumage. The best known species (Lophophorus Impeyanus) has the neck of a brilliant metallic red, changing to golden yellow in certain lights. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. caiage, F. guayage. See 1st Key, Quay. ] Wharfage; quayage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. metgeard. See Mete to measure, and Yard stick. ] A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. monnayage coinage. ] 1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mintage; coinage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Norwegian. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands. “Orkneyan skerries.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Purveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pourvoyance. ] 1. The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is provided; provisions; food. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Law) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of reconveying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Survey. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Survey; inspection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For OE. winyard, AS. wīngeard; influenced by E. vine. See Wine, and Yard an inclosure. ] An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cultivates a vineyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Wesleyanism. ] Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]