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Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Abranchiate.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without gills.

Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.

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

Producing abrasion. Ure.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Catharsis, below.

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

See Abridge. [Obs.]

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

A snatching away. [Obs.]

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

See Apricot. [Obs.]

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.