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.

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.

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.

To cut off.

See Abscission.

See Abscissa.

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co/rdinate axes.

The act or process of cutting off.

To hide; to conceal.

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

One who absconds.

the act of running away sectretly (as to avoid arrest).

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.

Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.

Pertaining to absence.

The act of absenting one's self.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

One who absents one's self.

In an absent or abstracted manner.

The state of being absent; withdrawal.

The quality of being absent-minded.

An A-B-C book; a primer.

A unit of conductance equal to 109 mhos; -- the inverse of the abohm.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of the nature of wormwood.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).