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the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

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

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

tuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.] Fuller.

A weeding machine.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

ndition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.