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In an abstruse manner.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

The act of thrusting away. [R.] Ogilvie.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

That may be abused.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Full of abuse; abusive. [R.] "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having spinous petioles.

Acanthopterygious.