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; an omen.

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.

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.

Abranchiate.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without gills.

having no gills; -- same as abranchiate.

Rubbed smooth.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

Producing abrasion.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

See Abraid.

the purging of emotional tensions. See Catharsis, below.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, /Two men could hardly walk abreast./

See Abridge.

To renounce.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation.

A snatching away.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.

See Apricot.

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts

a shortened version .

One who abridges.

The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

ratlike rodent of the Andes with soft fur and large ears.

Capable of being abrogated.

To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.

The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

One who repeals by authority.

In the act of brooding.

To brook; to endure.

To tear off or asunder.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex, i.e. without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end; -- said of a leaf shape

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

an administrative region of Italy.

The abductor muscles of the stomach; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to pecs and delts.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body caused by infection.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess.