Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (n.) An abridgment.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviating :: Abbreviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, Two men could hardly walk abreast..

Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of..

Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science..

Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) At the same time; simultaneously.

Abregge :: Abregge (v. t.) See Abridge.

Abrenounce :: Abrenounce (v. t.) To renounce.

Abrenunciation :: Abrenunciation (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation.

Abreption :: Abreption (n.) A snatching away.

Abreuvoir :: Abreuvoir (n.) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar..

Alhambresque :: Alhambresque (a.) Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture..

Alla Breve :: Alla breve () With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /..

Ambreate :: Ambreate (n.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

Ambreic :: Ambreic (a.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

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