ABDUCE
ABDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin adduco, to lead away, of ab and duco, to lead. See Duke.]To draw from; to withdraw, or draw to a different part; used chiefly in anatomy.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ABDUCENT
ABDU'CENT, adjective Drawing from, pulling back; used of those muscles which pull back certain parts of the body, for separating, opening, or bending them. The abducent muscles,...
ABDUCTION
ABDUC'TION, noun1. In a general sense, the act of drawing apart, or carrying away.2. In surgery, a species of fracture, in which the broken parts recede from each other.3. In lo...
ABDUCTOR
ABDUC'TOR, noun In anatomy, a muscle which serves to withdraw, or pull back a certain part of the body; as the abductor oculi, which pulls the eye outwards.
ABEAR
ABEA'R, verb transitive abare, To bear; to behave. obsolete
ABEARANCE
ABEA'RANCE, noun [from abear, now disused from bear, to carry.] Behavior, demeanor. [Little used.]
ABECEDARIAN
ABECEDA'RIAN, noun [a word formed from the first four letters of the alphabet.] One who teaches the letters of the alphabet, or a learner of the letters.
ABECEDARY
ABECE'DARY, adjective Pertaining to, or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
ABED
ABED', adverb [See Bed.] On or in bed.
ABEL-TREE
ABE'LE or ABEL-TREEnoun An obsolete name of the while poplar. [See Poplar.]
ABELE
ABE'LE or ABEL-TREE, noun An obsolete name of the while poplar. [See Poplar.]
ABELIANS
ABE'LIANS, ABELO'NIANS or A'BELITES, in Church history, a sect in Africa which arose in the reign of Areadius; they married, but lived in continence after the manner, as they pr...
ABELITES
ABE'LIANS, ABELO'NIANS or A'BELITES, in Church history, a sect in Africa which arose in the reign of Areadius; they married, but lived in continence after the manner, as they pr...
ABELMOSK
A'BELMOSK, noun A trivial name of a species of hibiscus, or Syrian mallow. The plant rises on a herbacceous stalk, three or four feet, sending out two or three side branches. Th...
ABELONIANS
ABE'LIANS, ABELO'NIANS or A'BELITES, in Church history, a sect in Africa which arose in the reign of Areadius; they married, but lived in continence after the manner, as they pr...
ABERRANCE
ABER'RANCE, [Latin aberrans, aberro, to wander from; of ab and ABER'RANCY, erro, to wander.]A wandering or deviating from the right way, but rarely used in a literal sense. In a...
ABERRANT
ABER'RANT, adjective Wandering, straying from the right way. [Rarely used.]
ABERRATION
ABERRA'TION, noun [Latin aberratio.]1. The act of wandering from the right way; deviation from truth or moral rectitude; deviation from a strait line.2. In astronomy, a small ap...
ABERRING
ABER'RING, part, adjective Wandering; going astray.
ABERRUNCATE
ABERRUN'CATE, verb transitive [Latin averrunco.] To pull up by the roots; to extirpate utterly. [Not used.]
ABET
ABET' verb transitive [Sax. betan, gebatan; properly to push forward, to advance; hence to amend, to revive, to restore, to make better; and applied to fire, to increase the fla...
ABETMENT
ABET'MENT, noun The act of abetting.
ABETTED
ABETTED, participle passive Incited, aided, encouraged to a crime.
ABETTING
ABETTING, participle present tense Counselling, aiding or encouraging to a crime.
ABETTOR
ABETTOR, noun One who abets, or incites, aids or encourages another to commit a crime. In treason, there are no abettors; all persons concerned being principals.
ABEVACUATION
ABEVACUA'TION, noun [ab and evacuation.]In medicine, a partial evacuation of morbid humors of the body, either by nature or art.
ABEYANCE
ABEY'ANCE, nounpronoun abayance. [Norm. abbaiaunce, or abaizance, in expectation; boyance, expectation. Qu. Fr. bayer, to gape, to look a long time with the mouth open; to stand...