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The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

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

Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.

f unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Containing abjuration.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

Pertaining to ablution.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

ticularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.

Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

ard off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.