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A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

A mystical word or collocation 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.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

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

ly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Abranchiate.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without gills.

Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.

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

Producing abrasion. Ure.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.