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Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

Characterized by aberration.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

Containing abjuration.

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

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

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

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

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

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

Abranchiate.

up of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.