ABRIDGER — ABY

ABRIDGER — ABY NWAD ABRIDGER.1

ABRIDGER, n. One who abridges; one who makes a compend. NWAD ABRIDGER.1

ABRIDGING, ppr. shortening; lessening; depriving; debarring. NWAD ABRIDGING.1

ABRIDGMENT, n. NWAD ABRIDGMENT.1

1. An epitome; a compend, or summary of a book. NWAD ABRIDGMENT.2

2. Diminution; contraction; reduction - as an abridgment of expenses. NWAD ABRIDGMENT.3

3. Deprivation; a debarring or restraint - as an abridgment of pleasures. NWAD ABRIDGMENT.4

ABROACH, adv. [See Broach.] NWAD ABROACH.1

Broached; letter out or yielding liquor, or in a posture for letting out; as a cask is abroach. Figuratively used by Shakespeare for setting loose, or in a state of being diffused, “Set mischief abroach;” but this sense is unusual. NWAD ABROACH.2

ABROAD, adv. abrawd’. [See Broad.] NWAD ABROAD.1

In a general sense, at large; widely; not confined to narrow limits. Hence, NWAD ABROAD.2

1. In the open air. NWAD ABROAD.3

2. Beyond or out of the walls of a house, as to walk abroad. NWAD ABROAD.4

3. Beyond the limits of a camp. Deuteronomy 23:10 NWAD ABROAD.5

4. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries - as to go abroad for an education. We have broils at home and enemies abroad. NWAD ABROAD.6

5. Extensively; before the public at large. NWAD ABROAD.7

He began to blaze abroad the matter. Mark 1:45; Esther 1:17 NWAD ABROAD.8

6. Widely; with expansion; as a tree spreads its branches abroad. NWAD ABROAD.9

ABROGATE, v.t. [L abrago, to repeal. from ab and rogo, to ask or propose. See the English reach. Class Rg.] NWAD ABROGATE.1

To repeal; to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of established customs etc. NWAD ABROGATE.2

ABROGATED, pp. Repealed; annulled by an act of authority. NWAD ABROGATED.1

ABROGATING, ppr. Repealing by authority; making void. NWAD ABROGATING.1

ABROGATION, n. The act of abrogating; a repeal of authority of the legislative power. NWAD ABROGATION.1

ABROOD, adv. [See Brood.] In the action of brooding. [Not in use.] NWAD ABROOD.1

ABROODING, n. A sitting abrood. [Not in use.] NWAD ABROODING.1

ABROOK, v.t. To brook, to endure. [Not in use. See Brook.] NWAD ABROOK.1

ABROTANUM, n. A species of plant arranged under the Genus, Artemisia; called also southern wood. NWAD ABROTANUM.1

ABRUPT, a. [L. abruptus, from abrumpo, to break off, of ab and rumpo. See Rupture.] NWAD ABRUPT.1

1. Literally, broken off, or broken short. NWAD ABRUPT.2

Hence, NWAD ABRUPT.3

2. Steep, craggy; applied to rocks, precipices and the like. NWAD ABRUPT.4

3. Figuratively, sudden; without notice to prepare the mind for the event; as an abrupt entrance and address. NWAD ABRUPT.5

4. Unconnected; having sudden transitions from one subject to another; as an abrupt style. NWAD ABRUPT.6

5. In botany, an abrupt pinnate leaf is one which has neither leaflet, nor entril at the end. NWAD ABRUPT.7

ABRUPT, n. A chasm or gulf with steep sides. “Over the vast abrupt.” [This use of the word is infrequent.] NWAD ABRUPT.8

ABRUPTION, n. A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. NWAD ABRUPTION.1

ABRUPTLY, adv. suddenly; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; as, the Minister left France abruptly. NWAD ABRUPTLY.1

ABRUPTNESS, n. NWAD ABRUPTNESS.1

1. A state of being broken; craggedness; steepness. NWAD ABRUPTNESS.2

2. Figuratively, suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence. NWAD ABRUPTNESS.3

ABSCESS, n. [L. abscessus, from ab and cedo, to go from.] NWAD ABSCESS.1

An imposthume. A collection of morbid matter, or pus in the cellular or adipose membrane; matter generated by the suppuration of an inflammatory tumor. NWAD ABSCESS.2

ABSCIND, vt. [L. abscindo.] To cut off. [Little used.] NWAD ABSCIND.1

ABSCISS, n. [L. abscissus, from ab and scindere, to cut; See Scissors.] NWAD ABSCISS.1

In conics, a part of the diameter, or transverse axis of a conic section, intercepted between the vertex or some other fixed point, and a semiordinate. NWAD ABSCISS.2

ABSCISSION, n. [See Absciss.] NWAD ABSCISSION.1

1. A cutting off, or a begin cut off. In surgery, the separation of any corrupted or useless part of the body, by a sharp instrument; applied to the soft parts, as amputation is to the bones and flesh of a limb. NWAD ABSCISSION.2

2. In rhetoric, a figure of speech, when having begun to say a thing, a speaker stops abruptly, as supposing the matter sufficiently understood. Thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and such generosity--but I need say no more. NWAD ABSCISSION.3

ABSCOND, v.i. [L. abscondo, to hide, of abs and condo, to hide, i.e. to withdraw, or to thrust aside or into a corner or secret place.] NWAD ABSCOND.1

1. To retire from public view, or from the place in which one resides or is ordinarily to be found; to withdraw, or absent one’s self in a private manner; to be concealed; appropriately, used of persons who secrete themselves to avoid a legal process. NWAD ABSCOND.2

2. To hide, withdraw or be concealed; as “the marmot absconds in winter.” [Little used.] NWAD ABSCOND.3

ABSCONDER, n. One who withdraws from public notice, or conceals himself from public view. NWAD ABSCONDER.1

ABSCONDING, ppr. Withdrawing privately from public view; as, an absconding debtor, who confines himself to his apartments, or absents himself to avoid the ministers of justice. In the latter sense, it is properly an adjective. NWAD ABSCONDING.1

ABSENCE, n. [L. absens, from absum, abesse, to be away; ab and sum.] NWAD ABSENCE.1

1. A state of being at a distance in place, or not in company. It is used to denote any distance indefinitely, either in the same town, or country, or in a foreign country; and primarily supposes a prior presence. “Speak well of one in his absence.” NWAD ABSENCE.2

2. Want; destitution; implying no previous presence. “In the absence of conventional law.” NWAD ABSENCE.3

3. In law, non-appearance; a not being in court to answer. NWAD ABSENCE.4

4. Heedlessness; inattention to things present. Absence of mind is the attention of the mind to a subject which does not occupy the rest of the company, and which draws the mind from things or objects which are present, to others distant or foreign. NWAD ABSENCE.5

ABSENT, a. NWAD ABSENT.1

1. Not present; not in company; at such a distance as to prevent communication. It is used also for being in a foreign country. NWAD ABSENT.2

A gentleman is absent on his travels. NWAD ABSENT.3

Absent from one another. Genesis 31:49. NWAD ABSENT.4

2. Heedless; inattentive to persons present, or to subjects of conversation in company. NWAD ABSENT.5

An absent man is uncivil to the company. NWAD ABSENT.6

3. In familiar language, not at home; as, the master of the house is absent. In other words, he does not wish to be disturbed by company. NWAD ABSENT.7

ABSENT, v.t. To depart to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; to retire or withdraw; to forbear to appear in presence; used with the reciprocal pronoun. NWAD ABSENT.8

Let a man absent himself from the company. NWAD ABSENT.9

ABSENTEE, n. One who withdraws from his country, office or estate; one who removed to a distant place or to another counter. NWAD ABSENTEE.1

ABSENTER, n. One who absents himself. NWAD ABSENTER.1

ABSENTMENT, n. A state of being absent. NWAD ABSENTMENT.1

ABSINTHIAN, a. [from absinthium.] Of the nature of wormwood. NWAD ABSINTHIAN.1

ABSINTHIATED, a. Impregnated with wormwood. NWAD ABSINTHIATED.1

ABSINTHIUM, n. Budaeus in his commentaries on Theophrast, supposes the word composed of a priv. delight, so named from its bitterness. But it may be an Oriental word. NWAD ABSINTHIUM.1

The common wormwood; a bitter plant, used as a tonic. A species of Artemisia. NWAD ABSINTHIUM.2

ABSIS, In astronomy. [See Apsis.] NWAD ABSIS.1

ABSOLUTE, a. [L. absolutus. See Absolve.] NWAD ABSOLUTE.1

1. Literally, in a general sense, free, independent of any thing extraneous. Hence, NWAD ABSOLUTE.2

2. Complete in itself; positive; as an absolute declaration. NWAD ABSOLUTE.3

3. Unconditional, as an absolute promise. NWAD ABSOLUTE.4

4. Existing independent of any other cause, as God is absolute. NWAD ABSOLUTE.5

5. Unlimited by extraneous power or control, as an absolute government or prince. NWAD ABSOLUTE.6

6. Not relative, as absolute space. NWAD ABSOLUTE.7

In grammar, the case absolute, is when a word or member of a sentence is not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government. NWAD ABSOLUTE.8

Absolute equation, in astronomy, is the aggregate of the optic and eccentric equations. The apparent inequality of a planet’s motion in its orbit, arising from is unequal distances from the earth at different times, is called its optic equation; the eccentric inequality is caused by the uniformity of the planet’s motion, in an elliptical orbit, which, for that reason, appears not to be uniform. NWAD ABSOLUTE.9

Absolute numbers, in algebra, are such as have no letters annexed, as 2a+36=48. the two latter numbers are absolute or pure. NWAD ABSOLUTE.10

Absolute space, in physics, is space considered without relation to any other object. NWAD ABSOLUTE.11

Absolute gravity, in philosophy, is that property in bodies by which they are said to weigh so much, without regard to circumstances of modification, and this is always as the quantity of matter they contain. NWAD ABSOLUTE.12

ABSOLUTELY, adv. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.1

1. Completely, wholly, as a thing is absolutely unintelligible. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.2

2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected NWAD ABSOLUTELY.3

Absolutely we cannot discommend, we cannot absolutely approve, either willingness to live, or forwardness to die. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.4

3. Without restriction or limitation; as God reigns absolutely. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.5

4. Without condition, as God does not forgive absolutely, but upon condition of faith and repentance. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.6

5. Positively, peremptorily, as command me absolutely not to go. NWAD ABSOLUTELY.7

ABSOLUTENESS, n. Independence, completeness in itself. NWAD ABSOLUTENESS.1

2. Despotic authority, or that which is subject to no extraneous restriction, or control. NWAD ABSOLUTENESS.2

ABSOLUTION, n. In the civil law, an acquittal or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent. In the canon law, a remission of sins pronounced by a priest in favor of a penitent. Among protestants, a sentence by which an excommunicated person is released from his liability to punishment. NWAD ABSOLUTION.1

ABSOLUTORY, a. Absolving; that absolves. NWAD ABSOLUTORY.1

ABSOLVATORY, a. [from absolve.] Containing absolution, pardon, or release; having power to absolve. NWAD ABSOLVATORY.1

ABSOLVE, v.t. abzolv’, [L. absolvo, from ab and solvo, to loose or release; to absolve, to finish; Heb. to loose or loosen. See Solve.] NWAD ABSOLVE.1

To set free or release from some obligation, debt or responsibility; or from that which subjects a person to a burden or penalty; as to absolve a person from a promise; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Hence, in the civil law, the word was used for acquit; and in the canon law, for forgive, or a sentence of remission. In ordinary language, its sense is to set free or release from an engagement. Formerly, good writers used the word in the sense of finish, accomplish; as to absolve work, in Milton; but in this sense, it seems to be obsolete. NWAD ABSOLVE.2

ABSOLVED, pp. Released; acquitted; remitted; declared innocent. NWAD ABSOLVED.1

ABSOLVER, n. One who absolves; also one that pronounces sin to be remit. NWAD ABSOLVER.1

ABSOLVING, ppr. Setting free from a debt, or charge; acquitting; remitting. NWAD ABSOLVING.1

ABSONANT, a. [See Absonous.] Wide from the purpose; contrary to reason. NWAD ABSONANT.1

ABSONOUS, a. [L. absonus; ab and sonus, sound.] Unmusical or untunable. NWAD ABSONOUS.1

ABSORB, v.t. [L. absorbeo, ab and sorbeo, to drink in; to draw or drink in; whence sirup, sherbet, shrub.] NWAD ABSORB.1

1. To drink in; to suck up; to imbibe; as a spunge, or as the lacteals of the body. NWAD ABSORB.2

2. To drink in, swallow up, or overwhelm with water, as a body in a whirlpool. NWAD ABSORB.3

3. To waste wholly or sink in expenses; to exhaust; as, to absorb an estate in luxury. NWAD ABSORB.4

4. To engross or engage wholly, as absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth. NWAD ABSORB.5

ABSORBABILITY, n. A state or quality of being absorbable. NWAD ABSORBABILITY.1

ABSORBABLE, a. That may be imbibed or swallowed. NWAD ABSORBABLE.1

ABSORBED, ABSORPT, pp. Imbibed; swallowed; wasted; engaged; lost in study; wholly engrossed. NWAD ABSORBED.1

ABSORBENT, a. Imbibing; swallowing. NWAD ABSORBENT.1

ABSORBENT, n. In anatomy, a vessel which imbibes, as the lacteals, lymphatics, and inhaling arteries. In medicine, a testaceous powder, or other substance, which imbibes the humors of the body, as chalk or magnesia. NWAD ABSORBENT.2

ABSORBING, ppr. Imbibing; engrossing; wasting. NWAD ABSORBING.1

ABSORPTION, n. NWAD ABSORPTION.1

1. The act or process of imbibing or swallowing; either by water which overwhelms, or by substances, which drink in and retain liquids; as the absorption of a body in a whirlpool, or of water by the earth, or of the humors of the body by dry powders. It is used also to express the swallowing up of substances by the earth in chasms made by earthquakes, and the sinking of large tracts in violent commotions of the earth. NWAD ABSORPTION.2

2. In chimistry, the conversion of a gaseous fluid into a liquid or solid, by union with another substance. NWAD ABSORPTION.3

ABSORPTIVE, a. Having power to imbibe. NWAD ABSORPTIVE.1

ABSTAIN, v.i. [L. abstineo, to keep from; abs and teneo, to hold. See Tenant.] NWAD ABSTAIN.1

In a general sense, to forbear, or refrain from, voluntarily; but used chiefly to denote a restraint upon the passions or appetites; to refrain from indulgence. NWAD ABSTAIN.2

Abstain from meats offered to idols. Acts 15:29. NWAD ABSTAIN.3

To abstain from the use of ardent spirits; to abstain from luxuries. NWAD ABSTAIN.4

ABSTEMIOUS, a. [L. abstemium, from abs and temetum, an ancient name of strong wine, according to Fabius and Gellius. But Vossius supposes it to be from abstineo, by a change of n to m. It may be from the root of timeo, to fear, that is, to withdraw.] NWAD ABSTEMIOUS.1

1. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks. NWAD ABSTEMIOUS.2

Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. NWAD ABSTEMIOUS.3

2. Sparing in the enjoyment of animal pleasures of any kind. [This sense is less common, and perhaps not legitimate.] NWAD ABSTEMIOUS.4

3. Sparingly used, or used with temperance; belonging to abstinence; as an abstemious diet; an abstemious life. NWAD ABSTEMIOUS.5

ABSTEMIOUSLY, adv. Temperately; with a sparing use of meat or drink. NWAD ABSTEMIOUSLY.1

ABSTEMIOUSNESS, n. The quality of being temperate or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. NWAD ABSTEMIOUSNESS.1

This word expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. NWAD ABSTEMIOUSNESS.2

ABSTERGE, v.t. abstery’. [L. abstergeo, of abs and tergeo, to wipe. Tergeo may have a common origin with the Sw. torcka, G. trocknen, D. droogen, Sax. drygan, to dry; for these Teutonic verbs signify to wipe, as well as to dry.] NWAD ABSTERGE.1

To wipe or make clean by wiping; to cleanse by resolving obstructions in the body. [Used chiefly as a medical term.] NWAD ABSTERGE.2

ABSTERGENT, a. Wiping; cleansing. NWAD ABSTERGENT.1

ABSTERGENT, n. A medicine which frees the body from obstructions, as soap; but the use of the word is nearly superseded by detergent, which see. NWAD ABSTERGENT.2

ABSTERSION, n. [from L. abstergeo, abstersus.] The act of wiping clean; or a cleansing by medicines which resolve obstructions. [See Deterge, Detersion.] NWAD ABSTERSION.1

ABSTERSIVE, a. Cleansing; having the quality of removing obstructions. [See Detersive.] NWAD ABSTERSIVE.1

ABSTINENCE, n. [L. abstinentia. See Abstain.] NWAD ABSTINENCE.1

1. In general, the act or practice of voluntarily refraining from, or forbearing any action. “Abstinence from every thing which can be deemed labor. NWAD ABSTINENCE.2

More appropriately, NWAD ABSTINENCE.3

2. The refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal propensities. It denotes a total forbearance, as in fasting, or a forbearance of the usual quantity. In the latter sense, it may coincide with temperance, but in general, it denotes a more sparing use of enjoyments than temperance. Besides, abstinence implies previous free indulgence; temperance does not. NWAD ABSTINENCE.4

ABSTINENT, a. Refraining from indulgence, especially in the use of food and drink. NWAD ABSTINENT.1

ABSTINENTLY, adv. With abstinence. NWAD ABSTINENTLY.1

ABSTINENTS, a sect which appeared in France and Spain in the third century, who opposed marriage, condemned the use of flesh meat, and placed the Holy Spirit in the class of created beings. NWAD ABSTINENTS.1

ABSTRACT, v.t. [L. abstraho, to draw from or separate; from abs and traho, which is the Eng. draw. See Draw.] NWAD ABSTRACT.1

1. To draw from, or to separate; as to abstract an action from its evil effects; to abstract spirit from any substance by distillation; but in this sense extract is now more generally used. NWAD ABSTRACT.2

2. To separate ideas by the operation of the mind; to consider one part of a complex object, or to have a partial idea of it in the mind. NWAD ABSTRACT.3

3. To select or separate the substance of a book or writing; to epitomize or reduce to a summary. NWAD ABSTRACT.4

4. In chimistry, to separate, as the more volatile parts of a substance by repeated distillation, or at least by distillation. NWAD ABSTRACT.5

ABSTRACT, a. [L. abstractus.] NWAD ABSTRACT.6

1. separate; distinct from something else. An abstract idea, in metaphysics, is an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it, as the solidity of marble contemplated apart from its color or figure. NWAD ABSTRACT.7

Abstract terms are those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any subject in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera, or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. NWAD ABSTRACT.8

Abstract numbers are numbers used without application to things, as, 6, 8, 10: but when applied to anything, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete. NWAD ABSTRACT.9

Abstract or pure mathematics, is that which treats of magnitude or quantity, without restriction to any species of particular magnitude, as arithmetic and geometry; opposed to which is mixed mathematics, which treats of simple properties, and the relations of quantity, as applied to sensible objects, as hydrostatics, navigation, optics, etc. NWAD ABSTRACT.10

2. Separate, existing in the mind only; as an abstract subject; an abstract question: and hence difficult, abstruse. NWAD ABSTRACT.11

ABSTRACT, n. NWAD ABSTRACT.12

1. A summary, or epitome, containing the substance, a general view, or the principal heads of a treatise or writing. NWAD ABSTRACT.13

2. Formerly, an extract, or a smaller quantity, containing the essence of a larger. NWAD ABSTRACT.14

In the abstract, in a state of separation, as a subject considered in the abstract, i.e. without reference to particular persons or things. NWAD ABSTRACT.15

ABSTRACTED, pp. Separated; refined; exalted; abstruse; absent in mind. NWAD ABSTRACTED.1

ABSTRACTEDLY, adv. In a separate state, or in contemplation only. NWAD ABSTRACTEDLY.1

ABSTRACTEDNESS, n. The state of being abstracted. NWAD ABSTRACTEDNESS.1

ABSTRACTER, n. One who makes an abstract, or summary. NWAD ABSTRACTER.1

ABSTRACTING, ppr. Separating, making a summary. NWAD ABSTRACTING.1

ABSTRACTION, n. NWAD ABSTRACTION.1

1. The act of separating, or state of being separated. NWAD ABSTRACTION.2

2. The operation of the mind when occupied by abstract ideas; as when we contemplate some particular part, or property of a complex object, as separate from the rest. Thus, when the mind considers the branch of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves, as separate from their size or figure, the act is abstraction. so also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. NWAD ABSTRACTION.3

The power which the understanding has of separating the combinations which are presented to it, is distinguished by logicians, by the name of abstraction. NWAD ABSTRACTION.4

Abstraction is the ground-work of classification, by which things are arranged in orders, genera, and species. We separate in idea the qualities of certain objects which are of the same kind, from others which are different in each, and arrange the objects having the same properties in a class, or collected body. NWAD ABSTRACTION.5

3. A separation from worldly objects, a recluse life; as a hermit’s abstraction. NWAD ABSTRACTION.6

4. Absence of mind; inattention to present objects. NWAD ABSTRACTION.7

5. In the process of distillation, the term is used to denote the separation of the volatile parts, which rise, come over, and are condensed in a receiver, from those which are fixed. It is chiefly used, when a fluid is repeatedly poured upon any substance in a retort, and distilled off, to change its state, or the nature of its composition. NWAD ABSTRACTION.8

ABSTRACTIVE, a. Having the power or quality of abstracting. NWAD ABSTRACTIVE.1

ABSTRACTIVE, a. Abstracted, or drawn from other substances, NWAD ABSTRACTIVE.2

ABSTRACTITIOUS particularly from vegetables, without fermentation. NWAD ABSTRACTITIOUS.1

ABSTRACTLY, adv. separately; absolutely; in a state or manner unconnected with any thing else; as, matter abstractly considered. NWAD ABSTRACTLY.1

ABSTRACTNESS, n. A separate state; a state of being in contemplation only, or not connected with any object. NWAD ABSTRACTNESS.1

ABSTRUDE, v.t. [Infra.] To thrust or pull away. [Not used.] NWAD ABSTRUDE.1

ABSTRUSE, a. [L. abstrusus, from abstrudo, to thrust away, to conceal; abs and trudo; Eng. to thrust.] Hid; concealed; hence, remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; opposed to what is obvious. [Not used of material objects.] NWAD ABSTRUSE.1

Metaphysics is an abstruse science. NWAD ABSTRUSE.2

ABSTRUSELY, adv. In a concealed; hence, remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; opposed to what is obvious. [Not used of material objects.] NWAD ABSTRUSELY.1

ABTRUSENESS, n. Obscurity of meaning; the state of quality of being difficult to be understood. NWAD ABTRUSENESS.1

ABSURD, a. [L. absurdus, from ab and surdus, deaf, insensible.] Opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with reason or the plain dictates of common sense. An absurd man acts contrary to the clear dictates of reason or sound judgement. An absurd proposition contradicts obvious truth. An absurd practice or opinion is repugnant to the reason or common apprehension of men. It is absurd to say six and six make ten, or that plants will take root in stone. NWAD ABSURD.1

ABSURDITY, n. NWAD ABSURDITY.1

1. The quality of being inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. Want of judgment, applied to men; want of propriety, applied to things. NWAD ABSURDITY.2

2. That which is absurd; in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men. NWAD ABSURDITY.3

ABSURDLY, adv. In a manner inconsistent with reason or obvious propriety. NWAD ABSURDLY.1

ABSURDNESS, n. The same as absurdity, and less used. NWAD ABSURDNESS.1

ABUNDANCE, n. Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants. NWAD ABUNDANCE.1

In scripture, the abundance of the rich is great wealth. Ecclesiastes 5:12; Mark 12:44; Luke 21:4. NWAD ABUNDANCE.2

The abundance of the seas is great plenty of fish. Deuteronomy 33:19. NWAD ABUNDANCE.3

It denotes also fullness, overflowing, as the abundance of the heart. Matthew 12:34; Luke 6:45. NWAD ABUNDANCE.4

ABUNDANT, a. Plentiful; in great quantity; fully sufficient; as an abundant supply. In scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with. NWAD ABUNDANT.1

The Lord God is abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6. NWAD ABUNDANT.2

Abundant number, in arithmetic, is one, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the sum of 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 3. NWAD ABUNDANT.3

ABUNDANTLY, adv. Fully; amply; plentifully; in a sufficient degree. NWAD ABUNDANTLY.1

ABUSAGE, n. Abuse. [Not used.] NWAD ABUSAGE.1

ABUSE, v.t. s as z. [L. abutor, abusus of ab and utor, to use; Gr. to accustom. See Use.] NWAD ABUSE.1

1. To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse; to use with bad motives or to wrong purposes; as, to abuse rights or privileges. NWAD ABUSE.2

They that use this world as not abusing it. 1 Corinthians 7:31 NWAD ABUSE.3

2. To violate; to defile by improper sexual intercourse. NWAD ABUSE.4

3. To deceive; to impose on. NWAD ABUSE.5

Nor be with all these tempting words abused. NWAD ABUSE.6

4. To treat rudely, or with reproachful language; to revile. NWAD ABUSE.7

He mocked and abused them shamefully. NWAD ABUSE.8

5. To pervert the meaning of; to misapply; as to abuse words. NWAD ABUSE.9

ABUSE, n. Ill use; improper treatment or employment; application to a wrong purpose; as an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of religious privileges; abuse of advantages, etc. NWAD ABUSE.10

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power. NWAD ABUSE.11

2. A corrupt practice or custom, as the abuses of government. NWAD ABUSE.12

3. Rude speech; reproachful language addressed to a person; contumely; reviling words. NWAD ABUSE.13

4. Seduction. NWAD ABUSE.14

After the abuse he forsook me. NWAD ABUSE.15

5. Perversion of meaning; improper use or application; as an abuse of words. NWAD ABUSE.16

ABUSED, pp. s as z. Ill-used; used to a bad purpose; treated with rude language; misemployed; perverted to bad or wrong ends; deceived; defiled; violated. NWAD ABUSED.1

ABUSEFUL, a. Using or practicing abuse; abusive. [Not used.] NWAD ABUSEFUL.1

ABUSER, n. s as z. One who abuses, in speech or behavior; one that deceives; a ravisher; a sodomite. 1 Corinthians 6:9 NWAD ABUSER.1

ABUSING, ppr. s as z. Using ill; employing to bad purposes; deceiving; violating the person; perverting. NWAD ABUSING.1

ABUSION, n. abu’zhon. Abuse; evil or corrupt usage; reproach. [Little used.] NWAD ABUSION.1

ABUSIVE, a. NWAD ABUSIVE.1

1. Practicing abuse; offering harsh words, or ill treatment; as an abusive author; an abusive fellow. NWAD ABUSIVE.2

2. Containing abuse, or that is the instrument of abuse, as abusive words; rude; reproachful. In the sense of deceitful, as an abusive treaty. [Little used.] NWAD ABUSIVE.3

ABUSIVELY, adv. In an abusive manner; rudely; reproachfully. NWAD ABUSIVELY.1

ABUSIVENESS, n. Ill-usage; the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. NWAD ABUSIVENESS.1

ABUT, v.i. To border upon; to be contiguous to; to meet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end; but this distinction has not always been observed. The word is chiefly used in describing the bounds or situation of land, and in popular language, is contracted into but, as butted and bounded. NWAD ABUT.1

ABUTMENT, n. NWAD ABUTMENT.1

1. The head or end; that which unites one end of a thing to another; chiefly used to denote the solid pier or mound of earth, stone or timber, which is erected on the bank of a river to support the end of a bridge and connect it with the land. NWAD ABUTMENT.2

2. That which abuts or borders on another. NWAD ABUTMENT.3