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A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

h genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

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.

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

irst; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

d in, to posses in such abundance as to be characterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.

e absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

ve to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

ead. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

y itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.