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The teasel. [Obs.]

An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

Abetment. [R.]

A medicine that diminishes irritation.

To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

To wean. [R.] Bailey.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

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

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, 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.

One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

ctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. "Acceptability of repentance." Jer. Taylor.