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The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

ity, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

ing the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

t, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. Dunglison.

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

other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. --…

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

n ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-…

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted

Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.] Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under Accept.

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.