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Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

egard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

onduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

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.

A snatching away. [Obs.]

Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

To put an end to; to do away with. Shak.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.