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written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

hren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

Braced aback.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

Cleansing; purging. Bacon.

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

Collected; accumulated. Bacon.

hose conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

Acquisition; the thing gained. [R.] Bacon.

a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

Severe or stinging; incisive. [R.] Bacon.

Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

gate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

Something added. [R.] Bacon.