Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..

Abranchial :: Abranchial (a.) Abranchiate.

Abranchiata :: Abranchiata (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration..

Abranchiate :: Abranchiate (a.) Without gills.

Abrase :: Abrase (a.) Rubbed smooth.

Abrasion :: Abrasion (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins..

Abrasion :: Abrasion (n.) The substance rubbed off.

Abrasion :: Abrasion (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds..

Abrasive :: Abrasive (a.) Producing abrasion.

Abraum :: Abraum (n.) Alt. of Abraum salt.

Abraum Salts :: Abraum salts (n.) A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

Abraxas :: Abraxas (n.) A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved..

Abray :: Abray (v.) See Abraid.

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.

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