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contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi.…

The substance rubbed off. Berkeley.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

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

e so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] Bentley.

The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. Shipley.

itrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

rganisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but whe…

To unbind. [Obs.] Bailey.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

escribing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.