ablewhackets 
ablewhackets (a'bl-whak-ets), . [< able (un- 
certain, perhaps alluding to able seamuti) 
+ whack.} A game of cards played by sailors, 
in which the loser receives a whack or blow 
with a knotted handkerchief for every game 
he loses. Also spelled abelichackets. 
abligatet (ab'li-gat), -. t. [< L. ab, from, + 
Ugatus, pp. of ligare, tie : see lien and obli- 
gate.'] To tie up so as to hinder. Bailey. 
abligationt (ab-li-ga'shon), . The act of tying 
up so as to hinder. Smart. 
abligurition (ab-lig-u-rish'on), . [< L. ab- 
liffiiritio(n-), also written abligurritio(n-), a 
consuming in feasting, < abligurrire, consume 
in feasting, lit. lick away, < ab, away, + ligur- 
rire, lick, be dainty, akin to lingers, lick, and 
E. lick, q. v. ] Excess ; prodigal expense for 
food. [Bare.] 
ablins, adv. See aiblins. 
ablocate (ab'lo-kat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ablo- 
cated, ppr. ablocating. [< L. ablocatus, pp. of 
ablocare, let out on hire, < ab. from, + locare, 
let out, place : see locate.'] To let out ; lease. 
ablocation (ab-lo-ka'shon), n. A letting for 
hire ; lease. 
abloom (a-blom'), prep. }>hr. as adv. or a. [< a 3 , 
prep., + bloom 1 .] In a blooming state; in 
blossom. 
abludet (ab-16d'), ' j pret. and pp. abhided, 
ppr. abluding. [< L. abludere, be different from, 
< ab, from, + ludere, play. Cf. Gr. tm^iuv, sing 
out of tune, dissent, < av6 (= L. ab), from, 
+ pieiv, sing.] To be unlike ; differ ; be out 
of harmony. [Bare.] 
The wise advice of our Seneca not much abluding from 
the counsel of that blessed apostle. 
Bp. Hall, Balm of Gilead, vii. 1. 
abluent (ab'l<J-ent), a. and n. [< L. abluen(t-)s, 
ppr. of abluere, [wash off, cleanse, < ab, off, + 
lucre = Gr. toiietv, wash.] I. a. Washing; 
cleansing; purifying. 
II. n. In med. : (a) That which purifies the 
blood, or carries off impurities from the system, 
especially from the stomach and intestines ; a 
detergent. (6) That which removes filth or 
viscid matter from ulcers or from the skin. 
ablution (ab-lo'shon), . [< ME. ablution, ab- 
lucioun, < OF. ablution. < L. ablutio(n-), < ab- 
luere, wash off: see abluent, a."] 1. In a gen- 
eral sense, the act of washing ; a cleansing 
or purification by water. 2. Any ceremonial 
washing, (a) Among the Oriental races, a washing of the 
person or of parts of it, as the hands and face, and among 
the Hebrews also of garments and vessels, as a religious 
duty on certain occasions, or in preparation for some 
religious act, as a sign of moral purification, and sometimes 
in token of innocence of, or absence of responsibility for, 
some particular crime or charge (whence the expression 
"to wash one's hands of anything"). The Mohammedan 
law requires ablution before each of the five daily prayers, 
and permits it to be performed with sand when water can- 
not be procured, as in the desert. 
There is a natural analogy between the ablution of the 
body and the purification of the soul. 
Jer. Taylor, Worthy Communicant. 
(6) In the Rom. Cath. Ch.: (1) The washing of the feet of 
the poor (John xiii. 14) on Maundy or Holy Thursday, 
called inandatum. (2) The washing of the celebrant's 
hands before and after communion, (c) In the Eastern 
Church, the purification of the newly baptized on the 
eighth day after baptism. 
3. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., the wine and water 
which after communion are separately poured 
into the chalice over the thumb and index- 
finger of the officiating priest, who drinks this 
ablution before going on with the closing 
prayers. 4t. In chem., the purification of 
bodies by the affusion of a proper liquor, as 
water to dissolve salts. 5. In med., the wash- 
ing of the body externally, as by baths, or 
internally, by diluent fluids. 6. The water 
used in cleansing. 
Wash'd by the briny wave, the pious train 
Are cleansed, and cast the ablutions in the main. 
Pope, Iliad, i. 413. 
ablutionary (ab-lb'shon-a-ri), a. Pertaining 
to ablution. 
abluvion (ab-16'vi-on), n. [< ML. abluvio(n-), 
a changed form of L. abluvium, a flood or del- 
uge, < abluere, wash off : see abluent, a."] If. A 
flood. 2. That which is washed off or away. 
Dwight. [Bare.] 
ably (a'bli), adv. [< ME. abeliche, < abel, able, 
+ -liche, -ly 2 .] In an able manner; with 
ability. 
-ably. [< -able + -ly?, ME. abel-liclie; so -bly, 
-ibly.] The termination of adverbs from adjec- 
tives in -able. 
abnegate (ab'ne-gat), v. t.: pret. and pp. abne- 
gated, ppr. abnegating. [\ L. abnegatus, pp. of 
14 
, refuse, deny, < ab, off, + nrgrtre, deny : 
see negation,'] To deny (anything) to one's 
self ; renounce ; give up or surrender. 
The government which . . . could not, without abiir- 
nn'itvj its own very nature, take the lead in making rebel- 
lion an excuse for revolution. 
Loit'ell, Study Windows, p. 167. 
abnegation (ab-ne-ga'shon), . [< L. abnega- 
tio(n-), denial, < abnegare,Aeny : see abnegate. ] 
The act of abnegating ; a renunciation. 
With aknryatinti of God, of his honour, and of religion, 
they may retain the friendship of the cnurt. 
Knox, Letter to Queen Eeg. of Scot. 
Judicious confirmation, judicious *<.;"'""' 
Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace. 
abnegative (ab'ne-ga-tiv or ab-neg'a-tiv), a. 
Denying; negative. Clarke. [Bare.] 
abnegator (ab'ne-ga-tor)j n. [L., a denier.] 
One who abnegates, denies, renounces, or op- 
poses. Sir E. Sandys. 
abnerval (ab-ner'val), a. [< L. ab, from, + 
nerriis, nerve. ] From or away from the nerve. 
Applied to electrical currents passing in a muscular fiber 
from the point of application of a nerve-fiber toward the 
extremities of the muscular fiber. 
abnet (ab'net), n. [< Heb. abnetj a belt.] 1. 
In Jewish antiq., a girdle of fine linen worn by 
priests. Also called abanet. 
A long array of priests, in their plain white garments 
overwrapped by abntts of many folds and gorgeous colors. 
/,. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 530. 
2. In surg.. a bandage resembling a Jewish 
priest's girdle. 
abnodatet (ab'no-dat), r. t. [< L. abnodatus, pp. 
of abnodare, cut off knots, < ab (= E. off) + 
nodare, fill with knots, < nodus = E. knot: see 
node and knot.'] To cut knots from, as trees. 
Blount. 
abnodationt (ab-no-da'shon), n. The act of 
cutting away the knots of trees. 
abnormal (ab-nor'mal), a. [< L. abnormis, 
deviating from a fixed rule, irregular, < ab, 
from, + norma, a rule : see norm and normal. 
Earlier anormal, q. v.] Not conformed or 
conforming to rule ; deviating from a type or 
standard ; contrary to system or law ; irregu- 
lar; unnatural. 
An argument is, that the above-specified breeds, though 
agreeing generally in constitution, habits, voice, colour- 
ing. and in most parts of their structure, with the wild 
rock pigeon, yet are certainly highly abnormal in other 
parts of their structure. Darwin, Origin of Species, i. 
Abnormal dispersion. See dupenion. 
Abnormales (ab-nor-ma'lez), n. pi. [NL., 
pi. of abnormalis : see abnormal.'] In ornith., 
in Garrod's and Forbes's arrangement of I'as- 
geres, a division of the Oscines or Acrouiyodi 
established for the Australian genera Meuura 
and Atrichia. the lyre-bird and scrub-bird, on 
account of the abnormal construction of the 
syrinx. See Atrichiida and Menurida>. 
abnormality (ab-n6r-mal'i-ti), n. [(abnormal 
+ -ity.] 1. The state or quality of being ab- 
normal ; deviation from a standard, rule, or 
type ; irregularity ; abnormity. 
The recognition of the abnormality of his state was in 
this case, at any rate, assured. Mind, IX. 112. 
2. That which is abnormal ; that which is 
characterized by deviation from a standard, 
rule, or type ; an abnormal feature. 
The word [vice], in its true and original meaning, signi- 
fies a fault, an abnormality. Pop. Sci. .Wo., XXVI. 234. 
A single [human] body presented the extraordinary 
number of twenty-five distinct abnormalities. 
Darwin, Descent of Man, I. 106. 
abnormally (ab-n6r'mal-i), adv. In an ab- 
normal manner. 
Impressions made on the retina abnormally from within, 
by the mind or imagination, are also sometimes projected 
outward, and become the delusive signs of external ob- 
jects having no existence. Le Conte, Sight, p. 72. 
abnormity (ab-nor'mj-ti), n. [< abnormous 
+ -ity, on type of enormity, < enormous.'] Irreg- 
ularity ; deformity ; abnormality. 
Blonde and whitish hair being, properly speaking, an 
abnormity. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXII. 67. 
The faradaic current which cures some deep-seated ab- 
normity of nutrition. J. Finite, Cos. Phil., I. 302. 
abnormous (ab-nor'mus), a. [< L. abnormis, 
with suffix -ous, like enormous, < L. enormis : 
see abnormal.] Abnormal ; misshapen. 
The general structure of the couplet through the 17th 
century may be called abnormous. 
Hallam, Lit. Hist., IV. 251. 
aboard 1 (a-bord'), prep.phr. as adi: a,nd prep. 
[< ME. on borde, < AS. on borde (dat.), on bord 
(ace.): prep, on, on; bord, plank, side of a ship: 
see board. Cf. F. oiler a bord, go aboard ; 
D. aan board gaan, go aboard. The F. a bord 
aboil 
has merged in the E. phrase. Cf. aboard^.] 
1. ndr. 1. On the deck or in the hold of a ship 
or vessel ; into or upon a vessel. [In the U. S. 
used also of railroad-cars and other vehicles.] 
He lowdly cald to such as were abord. 
>> /.x,v. K. (.)., II. vt 4. 
2. Alongside ; by the side ; on one side. 
He was desirous of keeping the coast of America aboard. 
Cook, Voyages. 
Aboard main tack! (naut.), an order to haul one of 
the lower comers of the mainsail down to the chess- 
tivr. All aboard! the order to go on board or enter, 
upon the starting of a vessel or (I'. S.) railroad-train. 
To fall aboard of, to come or strike against : said of a 
ship which strikes against another broadside on or at an 
obtuse angle. Such a collision is distinctively called an 
abordatje. To get aboard, to get fwul of, as a ship. 
To go aboard, to enter a ship ; embark. To haul 
aboard (naut.), to haul down the weather-clew of the fore 
or main course by the tack to the bnmkin or deck. To 
keep the land or coast aboard (<mO, to keep within 
sight of land while sailing along it. 
We sailed leisurely down the coast before a light fair 
wind, keeping the land well aboard. 
R. II. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 124. 
To lay aboard (navt.), to run alongside of, as an enemy's 
ship, for the purpose of fighting. 
U. prep. 1 . On board ; into. 
We left this place, and were again conveyed aboard our 
ship. Fielding, Voyage to Lisbon. 
2. Upon; across; athwart. [Bare.] 
Nor iron bands aboard 
The Pontic sea by their huge navy cast. 
Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 46. 
aboard 2 ! (a-bord'), [< F- abord, approach, 
< aborder, approach the shore, land, approach, 
accost (cf. a bord, on board), < a (< L. ad), to, 
+ bord, edge, margin, shore. < D. board, edge, 
brim, bank, board (of a ship): see aboard*.] 
Approach. Also spelled abord. 
He would, ... at the first aboard of a stranger, . . . 
frame a right apprehension of him. 
Sir K. Digby, Nat. of Bodies, p. 253. 
abocockt, abocockedt, Corrupt forms of by- 
cocket. Compare abaeot. 
abodancet (a-bo'dans), w. [< abode 3 + -ante.'] 
An omen. 
Verbum valde ominatum, an ill abodanee. 
T. Jackson, Works, II. 636. 
abode 1 (a-bod'), [< ME. abood, abod, ear- 
lier abad, continuance, stay, delay, < ME. abiden 
(pret. abod, earlier abad), abide: see abide 1 ."] 
1. Stay; continuance in a place ; residence for 
a time. 
I was once in Italy myself, but I thank God my abode 
there was only nine days. 
.{."/in iii. quoted by Lowell, Study Windows, p. 406. 
2. A place of continuance ; a dwelling ; a habi- 
tation. 
But I know thy abotle, and thy going out, and thy com- 
ing in. 2 Ki. x!x. 27. 
St. Delay : as, " fled away without abode," 
Spenser.-io make abode, to dwell or reside. = gyn. 
2. Residence, dwelling, habitation, domicile, home, house, 
lodging, quarters, homestead. 
abode 2 (a-bod'). Preterit of abidel. 
abode 3 * (a-bod'), n. [< ME. abode, < abeden (pp. 
aboden), ? AS. abeodan : see a- 1 and opde 2 .] An 
omen ; a prognostication ; a foreboding. 
Astrologicall and other like vaine predictions and abodes. 
Lydgate. 
High-thund'ring Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true 
abodes. Chapman, Iliad, xiii. 146. 
abode s t (a-bod' ),. [<abode&, .] I. trans. To 
foreshow ; prognosticate ; forebode. 
This tempest, 
Dashing the garment of this peace, abodetl 
The sudden breach on't. Skak., Hen. VIII., i. i. 
U. intrans. To be an omen ; forebode : as, 
" this abodes sadly," Dr. H. More, Decay of 
Christian Piety. 
abodementt (a-bod'ment), n. [< abode 3 + 
-ment.~\ Foreboding ; prognostication ; omen. 
Tush, man : abodementg must not now affright us. 
Shak., S Hen. VI., iv. 7. 
abodingt (a-bo'ding), n. [Verbal n. of abode 3 . 
Cf. boding.'] Presentiment; prognostication; 
foreboding: as, " strange ominous abodings and 
fears," Bp. Bull, Works, II. 489. 
abogado (a-bo-ga'do), n. [Sp., <L. advocaius : 
see advocate.] An advocate ; a counselor : 
used in parts of the United States settled by 
Spaniards. 
aboideau, aboiteau (a-boi-do', -to'), . [Of 
uncertain F. origin.] A dam to prevent the 
tide from overflowing a marsh. [New Bruns- 
wick. ] 
aboil (a-boil'), prep. phr. as adr. or a. [< 3 , 
prep., 4- boil-.~] In or into a boiling state. 
