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To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.

The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.] Barrow.

emptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

s for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequentl…

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

Acceptance. [R.] Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning.

ring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

aneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5. Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.

ompute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. Sir T. Browne.

To increase; to grow. [Obs.] Gillespie.

Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

Growing; increasing. Shuckford.