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

ed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Without gills.

To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

tc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

ed with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

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

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

Abstract terms, those which express 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 applica…

The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whitene…

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

; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.