A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A, ABA Has in the English language, three different founds. The broad found, as, all, wall. The open, father, rather. The flender, or clofe, is the peculiar a of the English language. Of the found we have examples, in place, face, mufic. 2. A, an article fet before nouns of the finfalar number; a man, a tree. Before a word beginning with a vowel, it is written an; as, 3. A is fometimes, a noun; as, great A. 4. A is placed before a participle, or participial noun. A huntag. 4 begging: Prior. Dryd. 3.A has a fignification denoting proportion. The landlord hath a hundred a year. Addifon. 6 A is afed in burlefque poetry, to lengthen out a fyllable. For cloves and nutmegs to the line-a Dryd. 7. A is fometimes put for be. &A in compofition, feems fometimes the French, and fometimes at, as afide, aflope, sware, a-weary, a-trip. Sbak. 9. A is fometimes redundant; as, arife, aroufe, Dryd. swake. 3. The fum or quantity taken away in the act of abating. Swift. Atterbury. ABATER.. The agent or cause by which an abatement is procured. Arbuthnot. ABB.f. The yearn on a weaver's warp, among clothiers. Chambers. 4. The cause of abating; extenuation. ABBA. f. [Heb.nx.] A Syriack word, which fignifies father. A'BBACY.f. [abbatia, Lat.] The rights, poffeffions, or privileges of an abbot. A'BBESS.. [abbatissa, Lat. abbeffe, Fr.] The fuperiour of a nunnery. Dryd. A'BBEY, or ABBY. f. [abbatia, Lat.] A monaftery of religious perfons, whether men or women. Shak. Shal. A'BBEY-LUBBER. . A flothful loiterer in a religious houfe, under pretence of retirement. Dryd. B ABBOT.. [in the lower Latin abbas.] The chief of a convent of men. To ABBREVIATE. v. a. [abbreviare, Lat.] 1. To fhorten by contraction of parts without lofs of the main substance. 2. To fhorten, to cut short. ABBREVIATION./. 1. The act of abbreviating. Bacon. Brown. Swift. 2. The means used to abbreviate, as characters fignifying whole words. ABBREVIATOR. J. One who abridges. ABBREVIATURE. f. [abbreviatura, Lat.] 1. A mark ufed for the fake of shortening. 2. A compendium or abridgement. Taylor. ABBREUVOIR.. [in French, a Wateringplace.] Among mafons, the joint or juncture of two ftones. A, B, C, pronounced abece. 1. The alphabet. 2. The little books by which the elements of reading are taught. T, ABDICATE. v. a. [abdico, Lat.] To give up; to refign; applied commonly to fome right, or office. Addifon. ABDICATION. f. [abdicatio, Lat.] The act of abdicating; refignation. ABDICATIVE. a. That which caufes or implies abdication. ABDOMEN. J. [Lat. from abdo, to hide.] A cavity commonly called the lower venter or belly; it contains the ftomach, guts, liver, fpleen, bladder, and is within lined with a membrane called the peritonæum. ABDOMINAL. 2 a. Relating to the abABDO'MINQUS. Š domen. To ABDU'CE. v. a. [abduco, Lat.] To draw to a different part; to withdraw one part from another. Brown. ABDUCENT. 2. Mufcles abducent ferve to open or pull back divers parts of the body. ABDUCTOR. [Lat.] The muscle, which draws back the feveral members. Arbuthnot. ABECEDA'RIAN. . [from the names of a, b,c.] A teacher of the alphabet, or first rudiments of literature. A'BECEDARY. a. Belonging to the alphabet. ABE/D. ad. (from a. for at.] In bed. ABE'RRANCE.. A deviation from the right Sidney. Glanville. way; an errour. ABERRANCY. The fame with ABERRANCE. 1. The power to do any thing, whether depending upon fkill, or riches, or ftrength. the mind. Sidney Dan. 2. Capacity, qualification, power. 3. When it has the plural number, abilities, it frequently fignifies the faculties or powers of Regers. ABINTE/STATE. a. [of ab, from, and intefiatus, Lat.] A term of law, implying him that inherits from a man who though he had the power to make a will, yet did not make it. To ABJU'RE. v. a. [abjuro, Lat.] Hale. 1. To fwear not to do fomething. 2. To retract, or recant, or abnegate a polition upon oath. ABJURATION. [from abjure.] The act of abjuring; the oath taken for that end. To ABLA'CTATE. v. a. [ubiaco, Lat.] To wean from the breast. «ANLACTATION. §. One of the methods of ABOMINABLENESS.f.[from abominable.] grafung. SABLAQUEATION. f. [ablaqueatio, Lat.] The price of opening the ground about the rasts of trees Evelyn. ABLATION. {ablatie, Lat.] The act of taking away. ABLATIVE, e. [ablativus, Lat.] 1. That which takes away. 1 The fixth cafe of the Latin nouns. BABLE [babile, Fr. habilis, Lat.] 1 Having ftrong faculties, or great strength or knowledge, riches or any other power of end, body, or fortune. Bacon. Having power fufficient. South. TABLE 4. To make able; to enable.Shak. BLE-BODIED. a. Strong of body. ABLEGATE. v. e. [ablego, Lat.] To fend abroad upon tome employment. ABLEGATION.. [from ablegate.] A sending க. abroad. ABLENESS. f. [from able.] Ability of body, vigour, force. Sidney. JA'BLEPSY.S. [ABhry, Gr.] Want of fight. Dia. ABLUENT. a. [abluens, Lat.] That which has The railing of chemical preparations in The quality of being abominable; hateful- To ABOMINATE. v. a. [abominer, Lat.] To Swift. 1. Hatred, deteftation. 1. The act of bringing forth untimely. due time. ABORTIVE. a. [abortivus, Lat.] Peacham. 1. Brought forth before the due time of birth. time. Shak. ABOVE. ad. 3. To make abode; to dwell, to refide, to inhabit. Dryd. TABODE. v. a. [See BODE.] To foretoken or forefhow; to be a prognoftick, to be ominSbak. Shak. ABODEMENT. J. [from to abode.] A fecret anticipation of fomething future. ¡Te ABOLISH. v. a. [from aboleo, Lat.] 1. To annul Hooker. 1. To put an end to; to deftroy. ABOʻLISHABLE. a. [from abolish.] That which may be abolished. ABOLISHER. /. [from abolib.] He that a beldhes 3. Before. From above. 2. From heaven. ABOVE ALL. In the first place; chiefly. Dry. 1. To have in great plenty; followed by with or in. 4. Here and there; every where. Shakesp. Shakefp. Bacon. Fa. Q. 5. With to before a verb; as, about to fly; upon the point, within a small time of. 6. The longest way, in oppofition to the fhort ftraight way. Shakefp. 7. To bring about; to bring to the point or ftate, defired; as, he has brought about his purposes. 8. To come about; to come to fome certain ftate or point. 9. To go about a thing; to prepare to do it. Some of these phrafes feem to derive their original from the French a bout; venir a bout d'une chofe; venir a bout de quelqu'un. A. Bp. for Archbishop. ABRACADABRA.J. A fuperftitious charm against agues. Hale. To ABRA DE. v. a. [abrado, Lat.] To rub off; to wear away from other parts. A'BRAHAM's BALM.. An herb. ABRA'SION.. [See ABRADE.] 1. The act of abrading; the rubbing off. 2. The matter worn off by the attrition of bodies. ABREAST. ad. [See BREAST.] Side by fide;" in fuch a pofition that the breasts may bear against the fame line. Shakelp. To ABRIDGE. v. a. [abreger, Fr. abbrevio, Lat.] 1. To make shorter in words, keeping fill the fame fubftance. 2 Macc. 2. To contract, to diminish, to cut short. Locke. 3. To deprive.of. Shakefp. ABRIDGED OF. p. Deprived of, debarred from. 3. Reftraint or abridgement of liberty. Locke. ABROACH. ad. [See To BROACH.] 1. In a pofture to run out. Swift. 2. In a ftate of being diffufed or propagated. Shakefp. Shakefp. Hooker. Hooker. ABROAD. ad. [compounded of a and broad.] 1. Without confinement;widely;at large. Milt. 2. Out of the houfe. 3. In another country. 4. In all directions, this way and that. Dryd. 5. Without; not within. To ABROGATE. v. a. [abrogo, Lat.] To take away from a law its force; to repeal, to annul. ABROGATION. f. [abrogatio, Lat.] The act of abrogating, the repeal of a law. Clarendon. ABRUPT. a. [abruptus, Lat.] Hooker. 1. Broken, craggy. The 2. Divided, without any thingintervening.. 3. Sudden, without the customary or pr preparatives. B. J 4. Unconnected. ABRUPTION.f. [abruptio, Lat.] Violent fudden feparation. Woods ABRUPTLY. ad. [See ABRUPT.] Ha without the due forms of preparation. ABRUPTNESS.§. [from abrupt.] Sidney. Arl 1. An abrupt manner, hafte, fuddennefs. 2. Unconnectedness, roughnefs, cragginet Woodu A'BSCESS.[abfceffus, Lat.] A morbid cay in the body. To ABSCIND. v. a. To cut off. ABSCISSA.. [Lat.] Part of the diamete a conick fection, intercepted between the tex and a femi ordinate. ABSCI'SSION.. [abfciffio, Lat.] 1. The act of cutting off. 2. The state of being cut off. To ABSCOND. v. n. one's felf. ABSCONDER.. [from abfcond.] The per T. ABSORB. v. 4. [abforbes, Lat. preter. abjd, part pret. abforbed, or absorpt.] 1. To fwallow up. Philips. 1. To fack up. Harvey. ABSORBENT. {abforbens, Lat.] A medicine that, by the foftheis or porofity of its parts, ether eales the alperities of pungent humours, or draws away fuperfluous moisture in Quincy. the body. ABSORPT. p. [from abforb.] Swallowed up. Pope. ABSORPTION. . [from abforb.] The act of isali wing up. Burnet. To ABSTAIN. v. n. [ahftineo, Lat.] To forbear, deay one's felf any gratification. ABSTE MIOUS. 4. [absłemius, Lat.] Temperate, inber, abftinent. ABSTEMIOUSLY. ad. [from abftemious.] Temperately, foberly, without indulgence. ABSTE MIOUSNESS. [See ABSTEMIOUS.] Te quality of being abftemious. ATENTION. f. from abftineo, Lat.] The act of holding off. TABSTERGE. v. a. [abftergo, Lat.] To cleanse by wiping. ABSTERGENT. 4. Cleanfing; having a clearfing quality. Brown. Bacon. TABSTERSE. [See ABSTERGE.] To cleanse, to perify. Not in ufe. ABSTERSION. f. [abfterfio, Lat.] The act of cl anfing. ABSTERSIVE. a. [from abfterge.] That has the quality of abiterging or cleaning. Bacon. AESTINENCE.. [abftinentia, Lat.] 1. Ferbearance of any thing. Locke. 2. Fating,or forbearance of neceffary food.Sh. ABSTINENT. a. [alftinens, Lat.] That ufes abf.aence. T. ABSTRACT. v. a. [abftrabo, Lat.] 1. To take one thing from another. 1. To ieparate ideas. 3. To reduce to an epitome. Locke. Watts. AB TRACT. a. (alfiractus, Lat.] Separated from fomething elfe, generally used with relatan to mental preceptions; as, abftral? ma thematicks. ABSTRACT.. [from the verb.] Wilkins. 1. A fmaller quantity, containing the virtue er power of a greater. Shak. 2 An epitome made by taking out the principal parts. 1.The state of being abstracted. ALSTRACTED.p.a. [from abftract.] 1. beparated. Watts. Wetton. Milton. Dryden. Watts. ABSTRACTEDLY. ad. With abstraction, fimply, feparately from all contingent circumftances. ABSTRACTION. S. [abstractio, Lat.] 1. The act of abftracting. 2. The ftate of being abftracted. 3. Abfence of mind, inattention. 4. Difregard of worldly objects. ABSTRACTIVE. a. [from abftrat.] Having the power or quality of abftracting. ABSTRACTLY. ade from abftract. In an abftract manner, abfolutely. Bentley. ABSTRU/SE. a. [abftrufus, Lat. thruft out of fight.] 1. Hidden. To ABUSE. v. a. [abutor, Lat.] In abufe, the verb. has the found of ; in the noun, the common found.] 1. To make an ill ufe of. 2. To deceive, to impofe upon. 3. To treat with rudenels. ABUSE. [from the verb aluf..] 1. The ill ufe of any thing. 2. A corrupt practice, bad cuftom. 3. Seducement. 4. Unjuft cenfure, rude reproach. ABU'SER.J. [pronounced luzer.] 1. He that makes an ill ufe. 2. He that deceives. 3. He that reproaches with rudencia. I Cor. Bacon. Shak. Hooker. Swift, Sidney. Milton. |