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

Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [Obs. or R.]

Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

he shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] Shak.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

A foreboding. [Obs.]

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

Brought forth prematurely.

giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.) above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things. Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

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.

A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. Dunglison.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

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

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.