Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages). Noah Webster
Gray.
Syn. Ð Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken.
AbÏrupt¶ (#), n. [L. abruptum.] An abrupt place. [Poetic] ½Over the vast abrupt.¸
Milton.
AbÏrupt¶, v. t. To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] ½Till death abrupts them.¸
Sir T. Browne.
AbÏrup¶tion (#), n. [L. abruptio, fr. abrumpere: cf. F. abruption.] A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
Woodward.
AbÏrupt¶ly, adv. 1. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.
2. Precipitously.
Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end.
Gray.
AbÏrupt¶ness, n. 1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
Ab¶scess (#), n.; pl. Abscesses (#). [L. abscessus a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go away; ab, abs + cedere to go off, retire. See Cede.] (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.
Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.
AbÏsces¶sion (#), n. [L. abscessio a separation; fr. absedere. See Abscess.] A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.]
Gauden. Barrough.
AbÏscind¶ (#), v. t. [L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism.] To cut off. [R.] ½Two syllables … abscinded from the rest.¸
Johnson.
AbÏsci¶sion (#), n. [L. abscisio.] See Abscission.
Ab¶sciss (#), n.; pl. Abscisses (#). See Abscissa.
AbÏscis¶sa (#), n.; E. pl. Abscissas, L. pl. Absciss‘. [L., fem. of abscissus, p. p. of absindere to cut of. See Abscind.] (Geom.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co”rdinate axes. When referred to two intersecting axes, one of them called the axis of abscissas, or of X, and the other the axis of ordinates, or of Y, the abscissa of the point is the distance cut off from the axis of X by a line drawn through it and parallel to the axis of Y. When a point in space is referred to three axes having a common intersection, the abscissa may be the distance measured parallel to either of them, from the point to the plane of the other two axes. Abscissas and ordinates taken together are called co”rdinates. Ð OX or PY is the abscissa of the point P of the curve, OY or PX its ordinate, the intersecting lines OX and OY being the axes of abscissas and ordinates respectively, and the point O their origin.
AbÏscis¶sion (#), n. [L. abscissio. See Abscind.] 1. The act or process of cutting off. ½Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.¸
Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being cut off.
Sir T. Browne.
3. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus,½He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity Ð but I need say no more.¸
AbÏscond¶ (#), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding.] [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + d?re (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do.] 1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
The marmot absconds all winter.
Ray.
2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; Ð used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond.
Macaulay.
AbÏscond¶, v. t. To hide; to conceal. [Obs.]
Bentley.
AbÏscond¶ence (#), n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.]
Phillips.
AbÏscond¶er (#), n. One who absconds.
Ab¶sence (#), n. [F., fr. L. absentia. See Absent.] 1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; Ð opposed to presence.
Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.
Phil. ii. 12.
2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. ½In the absence of conventional law.¸
Kent.
3. Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. ¸Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.¸
Addison.
To conquer that abstraction which is called absence.
Landor.
Ab¶sent (#), a. [F., fr. absens, absentis, p. pr. of abesse to be away from; ab + esse to be. Cf. Sooth.] 1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. ½Expecting absent friends.¸
Shak.
2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
3. Inattentive to what is passing; absentÐminded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
Chesterfield.
Syn. Ð Absent, Abstracted. These words both imply a want of attention to surrounding objects. We speak of a man as absent when his thoughts wander unconsciously from present scenes or topics of discourse; we speak of him as abstracted when his mind (usually for a brief period) is drawn off from present things by some weighty matter for reflection. Absence of mind is usually the result of loose habits of thought; abstraction commonly arises either from engrossing interests and cares, or from unfortunate habits of association.
AbÏsent¶ (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Absented; p. pr. & vb. n. Absenting.] [Cf. F. absenter.] 1. To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; Ð used with the reflexive pronoun.
If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
Addison.
2. To withhold from being present. [Obs.] ½Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.¸
Milton.
Ab·senÏta¶neÏous (#), a. [LL. absentaneus. See
Absent.] Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]
Ab·senÏta¶tion (#), n. The act of absenting one's self.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Ab·senÏtee¶ (#), n. One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.
Macaulay.
Ab·senÏtee¶ism (#), n. The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
AbÏsent¶er (#), n. One who absents one's self.
Ab¶sentÏly (#), adv. In an absent or abstracted manner.
AbÏsent¶ment (#), n. The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.]
Barrow.
Ab·sentÐmind¶ed (#), a. Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. Ð Ab·sentÐmind¶edÏness, n. Ð Ab·sentÐmind¶edÏly, adv.
Ab¶sentÏness (#), n. The quality of being absentÐminded.
H. Miller.