Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages). Noah Webster

       Ab¶diÏca·tor (?), n. One who abdicates.

       Ab¶diÏtive (?), a. [L. abditivus, fr. abdereÿto hide.] Having the quality of hiding. [R.]

       Bailey.

       Ab¶diÏtoÏry (?), n. [L. abditorium.] A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.

       Cowell.

       AbÏdo¶men (?), n. [L. abdomen (a word of uncertain etymol.): cf. F. abdomen.] 1. (Anat.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

       2. (Zo”l.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

       AbÏdom¶iÏnal (?), a. [Cf. F. abdominal.] 1. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

       2. (Zo”l.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes.

       Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; Ð called also inguinal ring.

       AbÏdom¶iÏnal, n.; E. pl. Abdominals, L. pl. Abdominales. A fish of the group Abdominales.

       ØAbÏdom·iÏna¶les (?), n. pl. [NL., masc. pl.] (Zo”l.) A group including the greater part of freshÐwater fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

       ØAbÏdom·iÏna¶liÏa (?), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl.] (Zo”l.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

       AbÏdom·iÏnos¶coÏpy (?), n. [L. abdomen + Gr. ? to examine.] (Med.) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

       AbÏdom·iÏnoÏthoÏrac¶ic (?), a. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

       AbÏdom¶iÏnous (?), a. Having a protuberant belly; potÐbellied.

       Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan,

       Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.

       Cowper.

       AbÏduce¶ (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abduced (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Abducing.] [L. abducereÿto lead away; ab + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Abduct.] To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs. or Archaic]

       If we abduce the eye unto corner, the object will not duplicate.

       Sir T.Browne.

       AbÏdu¶cent (?), a. [L. abducens, p.pr. of abducere.] (Physiol.) Drawing away from a common center, or out of the median line; as, the abducent muscles. Opposed to adducent.

       AbÏduct¶ (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abducted (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Abducting.] [L. abductus, p.p. of abducere. See Abduce.] 1. To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

       2. To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

       AbÏduc¶tion (?), n. [L. abductio: cf. F. abduction.] 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.

       Roget.

       2. (Physiol.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

       3. (Law) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

       4. (Logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

       AbÏduc¶tor (?), n. [NL.] 1. One who abducts.

       2. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

       AÏbeam¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + beam.] (Naut.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

       AÏbear¶ (?), v.t. [AS. ¾beran; pref. ¾Ï + beran to bear.] 1. To bear; to behave. [Obs.]

       So did the faery knight himself abear.

       Spenser.

       2. To put up with; to endure. [Prov.]

       Dickens.

       AÏbear¶ance (?), n. Behavior. [Obs.]

       Blackstone.

       AÏbear¶ing, n. Behavior. [Obs.]

       Sir. T.More.

       A·beÏceÏda¶riÏan (?), n. [L. abecedarius. A word from the first four letters of the alphabet.] 1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

       2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.

       Wood.

       A·beÏceÏda¶riÏan, A·beÏce¶daÏry (?), } a. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

       Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.

       Hook.

       A·beÏce¶daÏry (?), n. A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.]

       Fuller.

       AÏbed¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ in, on + bed.] 1. In bed, or on the bed.

       Not to be abed after midnight.

       Shak.

       2. To childbed (in the phrase ½brought abed,¸ that is, delivered of a child).

       Shak.

       AÏbeg¶ge (?). Same as Aby. [Obs.]

       Chaucer.

       AÏbele¶ (?), n. [D. abeel (abeelÐboom), OF. abel, aubel, fr. a dim. of L. albus white.] The white polar (Populus alba).

       Six abeles i' the churchyard grow.

       Mrs. Browning.

       AÏbel¶iÏan (?), A¶belÏite (?), A·belÏo¶niÏan (?), } n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

       A¶belÏmosk· (?), n. [NL. abelmoschus, fr. Ar. abuÐlÐmisk father of musk, i.e., producing musk. See Musk.] (Bot.) An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus Ð formerly AbelmoschusÐmoschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; Ð sometimes called musk mallow.

       Ab· erÐdeÐvine¶ (?), n. (Zo”l.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

       AbÏerr¶ (?), v.i. [L. aberrare. See Aberrate.] To wander; to stray. [Obs.]

       Sir T.Browne.

       AbÏer¶rance (?), AbÏer¶ranÏcy (?), } n. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.

       Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

       AbÏer¶rant (?), a. [L. aberrans, Ïrantis, p.pr. of aberrare.] See Aberr.] 1. Wandering; straying from the right way.

       2. (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

       The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

       Darwin.

       Ab¶erÏrate (?), v.i. [L. aberratus, p.pr. of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err.] To go astray; to diverge. [R.]

       Their own defective and aberrating vision.

       De Quincey.

       Ab·erÏra¶tion (?), n. [L. aberratio: cf. F. aberration. See Aberrate.] 1. The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural