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is wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

or; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. "I will abide the coming of my lord." Tennyson.

es not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

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

To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.

Denying; renouncing; negative. [R.] Clarke.

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]

chful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

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.…

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

dden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

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.…

s; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

ance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.