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Premorse :: Premorse (a.) Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off..

Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells..

Geniculation :: Geniculation (n.) The state of being bent abruptly at an angle.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks..

Short :: Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short..

Inflexed :: Inflexed (a.) Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower..

Snatcher :: Snatcher (n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly..

Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly..

Deflexed :: Deflexed (a.) Bent abruptly downward.

Abruptly :: Abruptly (adv.) Precipitously.

Mucronated :: Mucronated (a.) Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf..

Geniculate :: Geniculate (a.) Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal..

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

Butte :: Butte (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region..

Bluntly :: Bluntly (adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility..

Bundle :: Bundle (v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.

Shut :: Shut (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are..

Induplicate :: Induplicate (a.) Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in aestivation.

Shortly :: Shortly (adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose..

Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..

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