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or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

vis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

A weeding machine.

ning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

ject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

erful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

d 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 of curiosities. Addison.

d there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

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

as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

tor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

nother country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

cquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

One who absolves. Macaulay.

Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

n indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay.