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A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

A medicine that diminishes irritation.

That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.

Capable of being abolished.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

e labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

roached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.

lf; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

imes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.