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Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

ed 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.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

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

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

The quality of being abortive.

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plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

tions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

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 group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.