Abactinal :: Abactinal (a.) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal.

Abaction :: Abaction (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

Abactor :: Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

Ablactate :: Ablactate (v. t.) To wean.

Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam..

Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used..

Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) An abstract term.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

Abstracted :: Abstracted (imp. & p. p.) of Abstrac.

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.

Abstractedly :: Abstractedly (adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

Abstractedness :: Abstractedness (n.) The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

Abstracter :: Abstracter (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract..

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