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.

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).

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).

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

See Apsis.

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.

A standing aloof.

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Serving to absolve; absolving.

That may be absolved.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

An absolver.

One who absolves.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

The state or quality of being absorbable.

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

wholly absorbed as in thought

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

inducing or promoting absorption

Absorptiveness.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Anything which absorbs.

One who, or that which, absorbs.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.

Absorption.

Absorbed.

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

Absorptiveness.

To take one's self off; to decamp.

To hinder; to withhold.

One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.