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e relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

ath of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

xcessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

bhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

alled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

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

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.

ce, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. [Obs.] Raleigh.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifa…