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ABIDE v. 8 definitions

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

ABIDER n. 2 definitions

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

Continuing; lasting.

Permanently. Carlyle.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

ABIETIN; ABIETINE n.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

Habiliment. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…

ABIME; ABYME n.

A abyss. [Obs.]

as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Same as Abiogenesis.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.