abbyt

[HABIT.] A habit. "Under the abbyt of seynte Austynne." Wright: St. Patrick's Purgatory , p. 66. ABC. The first three letters of the English alphabet, designed as symbols of the alphabet generally. "As alphabets in ivory employ, the yet better'd boy, Hour after hour, the yet Sorting and puzzling with a deal of glee Those seeds of science call'd his ABC" Cowper: Conversation.