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The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

One who, or that which, absorbs.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

petites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

ating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

f the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. Whately.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

That may be abused.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

To endure; to abide. [Obs.] But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. Spenser.

abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

celeration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity o…

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

To mark emphatically; to emphasize.