Aboveboard
A‐bove″board′ (�), adv. Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. “Fair and aboveboard.” Burke.☞ This expression is said by Johns...
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Abovedeck
A‐bove″deck′ (�), a. On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
Abovesaid
A‐bove″said′ (�), a. Mentioned or recited before.
Abox
A‐box″ (�), adv. & a.(Naut.) Braced aback.
Abra
‖A″bra (?), n. A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon.
Abracadabra
Ab′ra‐ca‐dab″ra (�), n. A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chie...
Abradant
Ab‐ra″dant (�), n. A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.
Abrade
Ab‐rade″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Abraded; p. pr. & vb. n.Abrading.] [L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab + radere to scrape. See Rase, Raze.] To rub or wear off; to waste or...
Abrade (2)
A‐brade″ (�), v. t. Same as Abraid.
Abraham-man
A″bra‐ham–man′ (�) orA″bram–man′(�), n. [Possibly in allusion to the parable of the beggar Lazarus in Luke xvi. Murray (New Eng. Dict.).] One of a set of vagabonds who formerly ...
Abrahamic
A′bra‐ham″ic (�), a. Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
Abrahamitic
A′bra‐ham‐it″ic, ‐ic‐al(�), a. Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
Abraid
A‐braid″ (�), v. t. & i. [OE. abraiden, to awake, draw (a sword), AS. ābredgan to shake, draw; pref. ā- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + bregdan to shake, throw. S...
Abranchial
A‐bran″chi‐al (�), a.(Zoöl.) Abranchiate.
Abranchiata
‖A‐bran′chi‐a″ta (�), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ἀ priv. + �, pl., the gills of fishes.] (Zoöl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organ...
Abranchiate
A‐bran″chi‐ate (�), a.(Zoöl.) Without gills.
Abrase
Ab‐rase″ (�), a. [L. abrasus, p. p. of abradere. See Abrade.] Rubbed smooth. “An abrase table.” B. Jonson.
Abrasion
Ab‐ra″sion (�), n. [L. abrasio, fr. abradere. See Abrade.] 1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.2. The substa...
Abrasive
Ab‐ra″sive (�), a. Producing abrasion. Ure.
Abraum
A‐braum″orA‐braum″ salts (�), n. [Ger., fr. abräumen to remove.] A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
Abraxas
‖A‐brax″as (�), n. A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.
Abray
A‐bray″ (�), v. [A false form from the preterit abraid, abrayde.] See Abraid. Spenser.
Abreaction
Ab′re‐ac″tion (?), n. [Pref. ab- + reaction, after G. Abreagirung.] (Psychotherapy) See Catharsis, below.
Abreast
A‐breast″ (�), adv. [Pref. a- + breast.] 1. Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, “Two men could hardly walk abreast.” Macaulay.2. (Naut.) Side by side; also, opposite; over...
Abregge
A‐breg″ge (�), v. t. See Abridge.
Abrenounce
Ab′re‐nounce″ (�), v. t. [L. abrenuntiare; ab + renuntiare. See Renounce.] To renounce. “They abrenounce and cast them off.” Latimer.
Abrenunciation
Ab′re‐nun′ci‐a″tion (�), n. [LL. abrenuntiatio. See Abrenounce.] Absolute renunciation or repudiation.An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still b...