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Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.

Of a color between white and brown. Pegge.

Abatement. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

rt. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

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

remptory. [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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dangling. Browning.

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.