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The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.

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

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

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

Capable of being abrogated.

To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes an…

The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. Hume.

In the act of brooding. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.