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Among weaves, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

See Abb.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

Abbatial. [Obs.]

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

rness of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

The superior or head of an abbey.

The state or office of an abbot.

uce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor.

One who abbreviates or shortens.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [Obs.]

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

To line with Babbitt metal.

A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.