Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-BAS'ED
A-BAS'ED, pp.
Reduced to a low state, humbled, depressed. In heraldry, it is used of the wings of eagles, when the tops are turned downward toward the point of the shield; or when the wings are shut, the natural way of bearing them being spread, with the top pointing to the chief of the angle. – Bailey. Chambers.
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