Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages). Noah Webster
A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor.
State Trials.
AÏboard¶ (#), adv. [Pref. aÏ on, in + board.]
. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
2. Alongside; as, close aboard.
Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. Ð To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. Ð To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. Ð To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.
AÏboard¶, prep. 1. On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
2.Across; athwart. [Obs.]
Nor iron bands aboard
The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
Spenser.
AÏbod¶ance (#), n. [See Bode.] An omen; a portending. [Obs.]
AÏbode¶ (#), pret. of Abide.
AÏbode¶, n. [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.] 1. Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.]
Shak.
And with her fled away without abode.
Spenser.
2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
He waxeth at your abode here.
Fielding.
3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
Come, let me lead you to our poor abode.
Wordsworth.
AÏbode¶, n. [See Bode, v. t.] An omen. [Obs.]
HighÐthundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes.
Chapman.
AÏbode¶, v. t. To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.]
Shak.
AÏbode¶, v. i. To be ominous. [Obs.]
Dryden.
AÏbode¶ment (#), n. A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] ½Abodements must not now affright us.¸
Shak.
AÏbod¶ing (#), n. A foreboding. [Obs.]
AÏbol¶ish (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abolished (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Abolishing.] [F. abolir, L. abolere, aboletum; ab + olere to grow. Cf. Finish.]
1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; Ð said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic]
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
Spenser.
His quick instinctive hand
Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
Tennyson.
Syn. Ð To Abolish, Repeal, Abrogate, Revoke, Annul, Nullify, Cancel. These words have in common the idea of setting aside by some overruling act. Abolish applies particularly to things of a permanent nature, such as institutions, usages, customs, etc.; as, to abolish monopolies, serfdom, slavery. Repeal describes the act by which the legislature of a state sets aside a law which it had previously enacted. Abrogate was originally applied to the repeal of a law by the Roman people; and hence, when the power of making laws was usurped by the emperors, the term was applied to their act of setting aside the laws. Thus it came to express that act by which a sovereign or an executive government sets aside laws, ordinances, regulations, treaties, conventions, etc. Revoke denotes the act or recalling some previous grant which conferred, privilege, etc.; as, to revoke a decree, to revoke a power of attorney, a promise, etc. Thus, also, we speak of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Annul is used in a more general sense, denoting simply to make void; as, to annul a contract, to annul an agreement. Nullify is an old word revived in this country, and applied to the setting of things aside either by force or by total disregard; as, to nullify an act of Congress. Cancel is to strike out or annul, by a deliberate exercise of power, something which has operative force.
AÏbol¶ishÏaÏble (#), a. [Cf. F. abolissable.] Capable of being abolished.
AÏbol¶ishÏer (#), n. One who abolishes.
AÏbol¶ishÏment (#), n. [Cf. F. abolissement.] The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
Hooker.
Ab¶oÏli¶tion (#), n. [L. abolitio, fr. abolere: cf. F. abolition. See Abolish.] The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.
µ The application of this word to persons is now unusual or obsolete
Ab·oÏli¶tionÏism (#), n. The principles or measures of abolitionists.
Wilberforce.
Ab·oÏli¶tionÏist, n. A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
Ab·oÏli·tionÏize (#), v. t. To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [R.]
Bartlett.
Ø AÏbo¶ma (#), n. (Zo”l.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).
Ø Ab·oÏma¶sum (#), Ø Ab·oÏma¶sus (#), } n. [NL., fr. L. ab + omasum (a Celtic word.) (Anat.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.
AÏboom¶iÏnaÏble (#), a. [F. abominable. L. abominalis. See Abominate.] 1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
2. Excessive; large; Ð used as an intensive. [Obs.]
µ Juliana Berners … informs us that in her time [15th c.],½a bomynable syght of monkes¸ was elegant English for ½a large company of friars.¸
G. P. Marsh.
AÏbom¶iÏnaÏbleÏness, n. The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness.
Bentley.
AÏbom¶iÏnaÏbly (#), adv. In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
AÏbom¶iÏnate (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen.] To turn from as illÐomened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.
Syn. Ð To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
AÏbom·iÏna¶tion (#), n. [OE. abominacioun, Ïcion, F. abominatio. See Abominate.] 1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
Antony, most large in his abominations.
Shak.
3. A cause of pollution or wickedness.
Syn. Ð Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness.
AÏbom¶iÏna·tor (#), n. One who abominates.
Sir W. Scott.
AÏboon¶ (#), prep. and adv. Above. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Aboon the pass of BallyÐBrough.
Sir W. Scott.
The ceiling fair that rose aboon.
J. R. Drake.
AbÏo¶ral (#), a. [L. ab. + E. oral.] (Zo”l.) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
Ø AÏbord¶ (#), n. [F.] Manner of approaching