aby

1. (transitive)Examples: "Foole-hardy Knight, full soone thou shalt aby / This fond reproach, thy body will I hang, [Hee takes down / his pole.] / And loe vpon that string thy teeth shall hang: Prepare thy selfe, for dead soone shalt thou bee"Synonyms: make uparchaictransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity."; "We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]"Synonyms: sustainarchaicfigurativelytransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet."Synonyms: brook, go on, hold on, put up with, abide, aby, astand, enduretransitive

4. (transitive)Synonyms: procure, purchase, aby, buy, cheap, procure, purchase, snap upobsoletetransitive

5. (intransitive, obsolete)Synonyms: expiate, propitiateintransitiveobsolete

6. (intransitive, obsolete)Examples: "So long as breath, and hable puiſſaunce / Did natiue corage vnto him ſupply, / His pace he freſhly forward did aduaunce, / And carried her beyond all ieopardy, / But nought that wanteth reſt, can long aby."intransitiveobsolete