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Produced by spontaneous generation.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

To take away by judicial decision. [R.]

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

ed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

ion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

To approach; to accost. [Obs.] Digby.

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. [R.]

of Aby. [Obs.]

To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with. To abound in, to posses in such abundance as to be characterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets…

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

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

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

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

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. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes an…