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ithdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] Bailey.

One who abdicates.

Having the quality of hiding. [R.] Bailey.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell.

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…

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

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

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

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

To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

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

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.

One who abducts.

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.