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That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.

The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

ions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

ollocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. [Obs.] Raleigh.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

o violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

g beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.