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Webster 1913 Edition

(-tẽr)

Noun.

[L., fr.

abigere

to drive away;

agere

to drive.]

(Law)

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

[Obs.]

Noun.

[Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.]

In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.