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Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

Capable of being abdicated.

to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

rt of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

To bear; to behave. [Obs.] So did the faery knight himself abear. Spenser.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

See Aberr.]

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

Being in a state of abeyance.

The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.