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Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

eveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

ansitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

t is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

A collegian. [R.] Chesterfield.

to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow.

The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his hei…

good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

breviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.