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A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

ction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

cterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

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

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

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

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

ty 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 and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.…

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

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

cess, 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.

ference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

s self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.] Phillips.

A standing aloof. [Obs.]

acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.

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 application to t…

Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "An abstracted scholar." Johnson.

erverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.