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To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

Absorbed. [Arcahic.] "Absorpt in care." Pope.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The abusive prerogatives of his see." Hallam.

hou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

anied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

he distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Free from color; colorless; as, in Physiol. Chem., the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey.

rs; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of cri…

the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.