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One who abridges.

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

To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

Capable of being abrogated.

Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.

The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. Hume.

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

One who repeals by authority.

In the act of brooding. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

To brook; to endure. [Obs.] Shak.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

See Abscission.

See Abscissa.