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Extirpation. Dunglison.

corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow.

ied; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson.

ful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. Dunglison.

all abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

ate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

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

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

shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

pices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

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

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

eflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.