Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

Abbatial.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

The superior or head of an abbey.

The state or office of an abbot.

An abridgment.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

The act of shortening, or reducing.

One who abbreviates or shortens.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Muslim rite.

Capable of being abdicated.

One who abdicates.

To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

Causing, or implying, abdication.

One who abdicates.

Having the quality of hiding.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

A fish of the group Abdominales.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

Examination of the abdomen by means of a laparoscope to detect abdominal diseases.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.

distension of the stomach area due to overweight.

To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.

a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.

drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; -- especially of muscles

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; -- used especially of muscles

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.

One who abducts.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

To bear; to behave.

Behavior.

Behavior.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

In bed, or on the bed.

The white poplar (Populus alba).

A genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers.

An evergreen shrub (Abelmoschus moschatus -- formerly Hibiscus moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow. The seeds produce ambrette-seed oil.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

To wander; to stray.

an aberrant state or condition.

the state or condition of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.

Characterized by aberration.

To weed out.

A weeding machine.

Act of abetting; aid.

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

Abetment.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

A partial evacuation.

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

Abeyance.

Being in a state of abeyance.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.

Abominable.

Inhuman.

To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Abhorrence.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.

With abhorrence.

One who abhors.

Detestable.

Detestation.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.

One who abides, or continues.

Continuing; lasting.

Permanently.

The capital city of Cote d'Ivoire. Population (2000) = 106,786.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.

Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).

A lady's waiting-maid.

Habiliment.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Same as Abiogenesis.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Diminishing or alleviating irritation

To diminish the sensibility to stimulation of.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; lack of strength; asthenia.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

Cast down; low-lying.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

A very abject or low condition; abjectness.

The act of bringing down or humbling.

Meanly; servilely.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.

To take away by judicial decision.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.

Rejection by judicial sentence.

To unyoke.