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The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. Balfour.

To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

To take away by judicial decision. [R.]

A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

A snatching away. [Obs.]

Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

To put an end to; to do away with. Shak.