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The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

A workshop; a studio.

Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

One who, or that which, abates.

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.

aw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

To weed out. [Obs.] Bailey.

To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.

To wean. [R.] Bailey.