Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: A-BRA-HAM'IC – A-BRO'TA-NUM
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A-BRA-HAM'IC, a.
Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch, as Abrahamic Covenant. – Mason.
A-BRAN'CHIA, n.
An order of animals having no branchite, as the leech. – Career.
A-BRA'SION, n. [abra'zhun.]
The act of wearing or rubbing off; also substance worn off by attrition. – Quincy.
AB'RA-ZITE, n. [G. α neg. and βραζω, to bubble.]
A mineral that does not effervesce before the blow-pipe. See Gismondin. – Shepard.
AB-RA-ZIT'IC, a.
In mineralogy, not effervescing when melted before the blow-pipe. – Shepard.
A-BREAST', adv. [abrest'; from a and breast.]
- Side by side; with the breasts in a line. Two men rode abreast.
- In marine language, ships are abreast when their heads are equally advanced; and they are abreast of objects when the objects are on a line with the beam. Hence,
- Opposite; against; on a line with – as, a ship was abreast of Montauk point. – A seaman's phrase.
Renunciation; absolute denial. [Not used.] – Mede.
AB-REP'TION, n. [L. abripio.]
A carrying away; or state of being seized and carried away.
A-BREU-VOIR', n. [Fr. abreuvoir, a watering place, from abreuver, to water; Sp. abrevar, id. from Gr. βρεχω.]
Among masons, the joint between stones, to be filled with mortar.
A-BRIDGE', v.t. [abridj'; Fr. abréger, from Gr. βραχυς, short, or its root, from the root of break or a verb of that family.]
- To make shorter; to epitomize; to contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense in substance-used of writings; as, Justin abridged the history of Trojius Pompeius.
- To lessen; to diminish; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. – Smith.
- To deprive; to cut off from; followed by of; as, to abridge one of his rights, or enjoyments. To abridge from, is now obsolete or improper.
- In algebra, to reduce a compound quantity or equation to its more simple expression. The equation thus abridged is called a formula.
A-BRIDG'ED, pp.
Made shorter; epitomized; reduced to a smaller compass; lessened; deprived.
A-BRIDG'ER, n.
One who abridges; one who makes a compend.
A-BRIDG'ING, ppr.
Shortening; lessening; depriving; debarring.
A-BRIDG'MENT, n.
- An epitome; a compend or summary of a book.
- Diminution; contraction; reduction – as, an abridgment of expenses.
- Deprivation; a debarring or restraint; as, an abridgment of pleasures.
A-BROACH', adv. [See Broach.]
Broached; letting out or yielding liquor, or in a posture for letting out; as, a cask is abroach. Figuratively used by Shakspeare for setting loose, or in a state of being diffused, "Set mischief abroach;" but this sense is unusual.
A-BROAD', adv. [abrawd'; See Broad. In a general sense, at large; widely; not confined to narrow limits. Hence,]
- In the open air.
- Beyond or out of the walls of a house, as to walk abroad.
- Beyond the limits of a camp. – Deut. xxiii. 10.
- Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, to go abroad for an education; we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
- Extensively; before the public at large. He began to blaze abroad the matter. – Mark 1:45. Esther i.
- Widely; with expansion; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
AB'RO-GATE, v.t. [L. abrogo to repeal; from ab and rogo, to ask or propose. See the English reach. Class Rg.]
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, &c.
AB'RO-GA-TED, pp.
Repealed; annulled by an act of authority.
AB'RO-GA-TING, ppr.
Repealing by authority; making void.
AB-RO-GA'TION, n.
The act of abrogating; repeal by authority of the legislative power.
A-BROOD', adv. [See Brood.]
In the action of brooding. [Not in use.] – Sancroft.
A-BROOD'ING, n.
A sitting abrood. [Not in use.] – Basset.
A-BROOK', v.t.
To brook, to endure. [Not in use.] See Brook. – Shak.
AB-RO-TA-NOID', n. [Gr. αβροτονον and ειδος, form.]
A species of perforated coral or madrepore growing on rocks on the bottom of the sea.
A-BRO'TA-NUM, n. [Gr. αβροτονον.]
A species of evergreen plant arranged under the genus Artemisia, called also Southernwood.