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pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim. v. 13.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

[R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. [Obs.]

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

stract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.