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The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

Abortment; abortion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

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

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

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

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

e; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and conseq…

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.

applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.