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In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.

In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.

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

The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

dies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accid…

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by othe…

Having a cleavage parallel with the base.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.