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Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

The act of abacinating. [R.]

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.