drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; -- used especially of muscles
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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.
To go astray; to diverge.
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.
Exceptional.
The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
Containing abjuration.
To renounce on oath.
Renunciation.
One who abjures.
To wean.
The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Non-germinal.
A carrying or taking away; removal.
Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.
Taking away or removing.
The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Having much intellectual power.
A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
The act of sending abroad.
Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
Blindness.
comp. of Able. superl. of Able.
To tie up so as to hinder from.
Prodigal expense for food.
Perhaps.
Perhaps; possibly.
In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
To be unlike; to differ.
Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. A detergent.
Blushing; ruddy.
The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Pertaining to ablution.
That which is washed off.
In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.
To deny and reject; to abjure.
a denial; a renunciation.
Denying; renouncing; negative.
One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.
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