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One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

(a) The 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.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] Bailey.

Having the quality of hiding. [R.] Bailey.

To weed out. [Obs.] Bailey.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

Meanly; servilely.

To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.

To wean. [R.] Bailey.

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.

To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.

Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

rmal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

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

In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.