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The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

fore a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

d with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

peal 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.

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.

ily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth.

gnity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

he perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting thro…

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.