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i. & t. [A.S. abugan. ] I. In trans.: To bow. "To Roland then sche gan abo we Almost doun til his fete." II. Trans. ( Cocker am .) MS. Ashmole, 38, p. 37. (Hall i well.) Te daunt, to put to shame. *a-bowe (0. Eng.), *a-bow-en (0. Eng. & Scotch ), *a-bow'ne and *a-bow yne ( both 0. Scotch), prep. & adv. I. As prep .: Above. " Abowe all othur."-Cov. Myst., p. 88. II. As adv.: Above. "Kepe hyt therfore wyth temper at hete adowne, Full forty dayes, tyll hyt wex black abowen ." Ashmole: The at. Chem. Brit., p. 171 *a-bo'wed, pa . par . [ABOWE, V.] *a-bow-es, s. pl . [A.N.] Probably for aboures or avowés patron saints. (Hall i well and Wright.) "God and Seinte Marie and Sein Denis also And alle the abowes of this churche, in was ore ich am i-do." Robert of Gloucester , p. 475.