a small town in Dorsetshire, with a market on Thursday; seven miles west of Weymouth, seven south-west of Dorchester, and a hundred and thirty-three west-by-south of London. The fair is on July the tenth, for sheep and toys. W. Long. i. 17. Lat. 50° 40'. The abbey near this town was founded by a Norman lady, about the year 1026; and Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror were considerable benefactors to it.

ABBREVIATE of Adjudications, in Scots law, an abstract or abridgment of a decreed of adjudication, which is recorded in a register kept for that purpose*. See Law, Part III.