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Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

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

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

o draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

To weed out. [Obs.] Bailey.

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

at living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

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.

a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

rregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.

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.