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

in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. -- Absolute space (Physics), sp…

y or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in w…

To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak.

to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.

innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

on writers. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

An elevated cableway.

The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

To make heavy; to aggravate. [Obs.] Chaucer.