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roken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

An untimely birth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

oons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.

o withhold from being present. [Obs.] "Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more." Milton.

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

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

ieves that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.

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

Something cleansing. The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. Milton.

Abstracted; absent in mind. "Abstract, as in a trance." Milton. An abstract idea (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as be…

disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

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