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.

The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

To clear (tress) from knots.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

an abnormal condition.

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly.

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity.

Abnormal; irregular.

On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.

An omen; a portending.

To be ominous.

A foreboding.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Capable of being abolished.

One who abolishes.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

relating to or favoring abolition, especially the abolition of slavery.

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

and adv. Above.

a language spoken in Northeast India and adjacent regions of West Burma (Myanmar).

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

To approach; to accost.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The quality of being aboriginal.

Primarily.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Abortment; abortion.

Abortive.

An untimely birth.

Brought forth prematurely.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

Producing miscarriage. A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

same as abortionist.

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.

One who performs or procures abortion; among medical personnel, also called an abortion provider.

That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

The quality of being abortive.

Abortion.

a fetus which has been aborted; same as abortion{2}.

imp. p. p. of Aby.

To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.

same as abundant

On all sides; around.

The largest hammer used by smiths.

In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

Mentioned or named before; aforesaid; mentioned or named earlier in the same text (in written documents).

Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.

On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice.

Mentioned or recited before.

Braced aback.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a ca/on.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

Same as Abraid.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms.

a genus of European fishes.