abucco 
abucCO (a-buk'ko), n. [A native term.] A 
weight nearly equal to half a pound avoirdu- 
pois, used in Burma. 
abulia (a-bo'li-a), n. [NL., < Gr. afjov'/.ia, ill- 
advisedness, thoughtlessness, < aflov'Aof, ill-ad- 
vised, thoughtless, < a- priv. + /iovA/i, advice, 
counsel.] A form of mental derangement in 
which volition is impaired or lost. Also written 
aboulia. 
abulomania (a-bo-lo-ma'ni-a), n. [NL., < Gr. 
afiov'/.of, ill-advised, thoughtless, + uavia, mad- 
ness.] Same as abulia. Also written aboulo- 
mania. 
abumbral (ab-um'bral), a. Same as ii/niiii- 
brellar. 
abumbrellar (ab-um-brel'ar), a. [<L. fc.from, 
+ NL. umbrella, the disk of acalephs.] Turned 
away from the umbrella or disk : applied to 
the surface of the velum or marginal ridge of 
medusse or sea-blubbers, and opposed to inliiiii- 
brellar (which see). 
abuna (a-bo'na), n. [Ethiopic and Ar. abu-iiti, 
our father. Of. abba.] The head of the Chris- 
tian church in Abyssinia. See Abyssinian. 
abundance (a-bun'dans), it. [< ME", abundance, 
luibiiiidannce',' aboittidance (see aboundance), 
<OF. abondana; < L. abundantia, abundance, 
< abundare, abound : see abound."] 1 . A copious 
supply or quantity ; overflowing plenteousness ; 
unrestricted sufficiency : strictly applicable to 
quantity only, but sometimes used of number : 
as, an abundance of corn, or of people ; to have 
money in great abundance. 
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust 
shall cover thee. Kzek. xxvi. lu. 
2. Overflowing fullness or affluence; repletion; 
amplitude of means or resources. 
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 
Mat. xii. 34. 
The abundance [of Chaucer] is a continual fulness within 
the fixed limits of good taste ; that of Langland is squan- 
dered in overflow. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 260. 
= Syn. Exuberance, Prufiijitin, etc. (see plenty) ; plen- 
teousness, plentifulness, plenitude, sufficiency, copious- 
ness, ampleiicss, luxuriance, supply. Hee affluence. 
abundancyt (a-bun'dan-si), . The state or 
quality of being abundant. 
abundant (a-bun'dant), a. [< ME. abundant, 
habundunt, aboundant, < OF. abundant, habon- 
dant, < L. abundan(1-), ppr. of abundare, over- 
flow : see abound.] 1. Plentiful ; present in 
great quantity ; fully sufficient : as, an abun- 
dant supply. 
Thy abundant goodness shall excuse 
This deadly Mot in thy digressing son. 
SJiak., Eich. II., v. 3. 
The history of our species is a history of the evils that 
have flowed from a source as tainteil as it is abundant. 
Brougham. 
2. Possessing in great quantity ; copiously sup- 
plied ; having great plenty ; abounding : fol- 
lowed by in. 
The Lord, . . . abundant in goodness and truth. 
Ex. xxxiv. (i. 
Abundant definition. See definition. - Abundant num- 
ber, in arith., a number the sum of whose aliquot parts 
exceeds the number itself. Thus, 12 is ail abundant 
number, for the sum of its aliquot parts (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6) 
is 16. It is thus distinguished from a perfect number, 
which is equal to the sum of all its aliquot parts, as 
6 = 1 + 2 + 3; and from a deficient number, which is 
greater than the sum of all its aliquot parts, as 14, which 
is greater than 1 + 2 + 7. = Syn. Plentiful, plenteous, co- 
pious, ample, exuberant, lavish, overflowing, rich, large, 
great, bountiful, teeming. See ample. 
abundantly (a-bun'dant-li), adr. In a plentiful 
or sufficient degree ; fully ; amply ; plentifully. 
abune (a-bon'; Scotch pron. a-biin'), adv. and 
prep. [Contr. < ME. abuven, aboven (pron. 
a-bo'ven), < AS. dbufan : see above.] Above ; 
beyond ; in a great- 
er or higher degree. 
Also written aboon. 
[Scotch.] 
ab urbe condita (ab 
er'be kon'di-ta). 
[L. ; lit., from tlie 
city founded : 06, 
from; urbe, abl. of 
urbs, city; condita, 
fern. pp. of condere, 
put together, estab- 
lish.] From the 
founding of the city, 
that is, of Rome, B. c. 
753, the beginning of 
the Roman era. Usu- 
ally abbreviated to 
A. U. C. (which see). 
Aburria (a-bur'i-ii), . [NL. ; of S. Amer. 
origin.] A genus of guans, of which the type 
Atrurria farunculata. 
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is the wattled guan, Penelope abnrri or Aburria 
rariincttlata, of South America. IMchenbach, 
1853. 
aburton (a-ber'ton), prep. phr. as adv. or a. 
[< a s + burton : see burton.] Naut., placed 
athwartships in the hold : said of casks. 
abusable (a-bu'za-bl), a. [< abuse + -M<.] 
Capable of being abused. 
abusaget (a-bu'zaj), n. Same as abuse. 
abuse (a-buz'), v. t.; pret. and pp. abused, ppr. 
iiliiixini/. [< ME. abusen, < OF. abuser (F. abu- 
ser), < ML. abusari, freq. of L. abuti, pp. abusus, 
use up, consume, misuse, abuse, < ab. from, 
mis-, + uti, use : see use, v.] 1 . To use ill ; mis- 
use ; put to a wrong or bad use ; divert from 
the proper use ; misapply : as, to abuse rights 
or privileges; to abuse words. 
They that use this world as not abutting It. 1 Cor. vii. 31. 
The highest proof of virtue Is to possess boundless 
power without abutting it. Macaulay, Addison. 
2. To do wrong to ; act injuriously toward ; in- 
jure ; disgrace ; dishonor. 
I swear, 'tis better to he much abuu'd 
Than but to know't a little. Shat., Othello, ill. 3. 
Poor soul, thy face is much abutted with tears. 
Shot., R. and J., iv. 1. 
3. To violate; ravish; defile. 4. To attack 
with contumelious language; revile. 5. To 
deceive ; impose on ; mislead. 
You are a great deal abutted in too bold a persuasion. 
Sltak., <\ i M !" I in.-. I. 5. 
Nor be with all these tempting words abttsed. 
Pope, tr. of Ovid, Sappho to Phaon, 1. 67. 
It concerns all who think it worth while to be in ear- 
nest with their immortal souls not to abuse themselves 
with a false confidence, a thing so easily taken up, and 
so hardly laid down. South. 
Syn. 1. To Abuse, Mitntse, misapply, misemploy, per- 
vert, profane. Abtute and misuse are closely synonymous 
terms, but minute conveys more particularly the idea of 
using inappropriately, abuse that of treating injuriously. 
In general, abuse is the stronger word. 
So a fool is one that hath lost his wisdom, . . . not one 
that wants reason, but abutes his reason. 
Charnoct, Attributes. 
From out the purple grape 
Crushed the sweet poison of misiised wine. 
Milton, < 'i nuns. 1. 47. 
2. To maltreat, ill-use, injure. 4. To revile, reproach, 
vilify, rate, berate, vituperate, rail at. 
abuse (a-bus')> [= F. abus = 8p. Pg. It. 
abuxo, \ L. abusus, a using up, < abuti, pp. abusus, 
use up, misuse: see abuse, '.] 1. Ill use; 
improper treatment or employment ; applica- 
tion to a wrong purpose ; improper use or 
application : as, an abuse of our natural powers ; 
an abuse of civil rights, or of religious privi- 
leges ; abuse of advantages ; abuse of words. 
Perverts Itest things 
To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 204. 
And thus he bore without abuse 
The grand old name of gentleman. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, ex. 
A daring abuse of the liberty of conscience. 
Irving, Knickerbocker. 
2. Ill treatment of a person ; injury ; insult ; 
dishonor ; especially, ill treatment in words ; 
contumelious language. 
I, dark in light, exposed 
To daily fraud, contempt, abuse , and wrong. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 76. 
3. A corrupt practice or custom ; an offense ; 
a crime ; a fault : as, the abuses of govern- 
ment. 
The poor abuses of the time want countenance. 
Skat., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 
If abuses be not remedied, they will certainly increase. 
Sutift, Adv. of Relig. 
4. Violation ; defilement : as, self-afc*e. 5t. 
Deception. 
This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face. 
Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 
Is it some abuse, or no such thing? Shak., Ham., iv. 7. 
Abuse of distress, in /"". use of an animal or chattel 
distrained, which makes the distrainer liable to prosecu- 
tion as for wrongful appropriation. Abuse of process, 
in law. (a) Intentional irregularity for the purpose of gain- 
ing an advantage over one's opponent. (6) More com- 
monly, the use of legal process (it may be in a manner 
formally regular) for an illegal purpose ; a perversion of the 
forms of law, as making a criminal complaint merely to 
coerce payment of a debt, or wantonly selling very valua- 
ble property on execution in order to collect a trifling sum. 
-Syn. 1. Misuse, perversion, profanation, prostitution. 
3. Abuse, Invective, maltreatment, outrage ; vituperation, 
contumely, scolding, reviling, aspersion, slander, obloquy. 
(See invective.) "Abuse as compared with invective is 
more personal and coarse, being conveyed in harsh and 
unseemly terms, and dictated by angry feeling and bitter 
temper. Invective is more commonly aimed at character 
or conduct, and may be conveyed in writing and in re- 
fined language, and dictated by indignation against what 
is in itself blameworthy. It often, however, means public 
abut 
abuse under such restraints as are imposed by position 
and education." C. J. Smith. 
abuseful (a-bus'ful), a. Using or practising 
abuse ; abusive. [Rare or obsolete.] 
The abHseful names of hereticks and schismatic-ks. 
/;//. llarloir, Kemains, p. 397. 
abuser (a-bu'zer), H. 1. One who abuses, in 
speech or behavior ; one who deceives. 
Next tin MIT th' abuser of thy prince's ear. 
Sir J. Denhain, Sophy. 
2. A ravisher. 
That vile abuser of young maidens. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shep., v. 1. 
abusipnt (a-bu'zhon), . [<ME. ablution, < OF. 
abusion = Pr. abuzio = Sp. abusion = Pg. abus&o 
= It. abusione, < L. abu#io(n-), misuse, in rhet. 
catachresis, < abuti, pp. abusus, misuse : see 
abuse, v.] 1. Misuse ; evil or corrupt usage ; 
violation of right or propriety. 
Redress the ablutions and exactions. 
Act of Part. No. xxxiii. (23 Hen. VIII.). 
Shame light on him, that through so false illusion, 
Doth tume the name of Souldiers to abusion. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 220. 
2. Reproachful or contumelious language ; in- 
sult. 3. Deceit; illusion. 
They speken of magic and aouswn. 
Chaucer, Mali of Law's Tale, 1. 116. 
abusive (a-bu'siv), a. [= F. abusif= Sp. Pg. 
It. ubusivo, < L. abusivus, misapplied, improper, 
< abuti, pp. abusus, misuse : see abuse, v.] 1. 
Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill 
treatment : as, an abusive author ; an abusive fel- 
low. 2. Characterized by or containing abuse ; 
marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill- 
natured; injurious. 
An abusive, scurrilous style passes for satire, and a dull 
scheme of party notions is called fine writing. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 125. 
One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, 
And, more abuttive, calls himself my friend. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 112. 
3. Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, 
an abusive exercise of power. 
A very extensive and zealous party was formed [in 
France], which acquired the appellation of the Patriotic! 
party, who, sensible of the abusive government under 
which they lived, sighed for occasions of reforming it. 
Jefferson, Autobiog., p. 6<(. 
4f. Misleading, or tending to mislead ; employed 
by misuse ; improper. 
In describing these battles, I am, for distinction sake, 
necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, ac- 
cording to the abuttive acception thereof for these latter 
years. Fuller, Worthies, I. xviii. 
- Syn. 1 and 2. Insolent, insulting, offensive, scurrilous, 
ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling. 
abusively (a-bu'siv-li), adv. 1. In an abusive 
manner; rudely; reproachfully. 2f. Improp- 
erly; by misuse. 
Words being carelessly and abutriuely admitted, and a* 
inconstantly retained. Glanrille, Van. of Dogmat., xvii. 
abusiveness (a-bu'siv-nes), n. The quality of 
being abusive ; rudeness of language, or vio- 
lence to the person ; ill usage. 
abut (a-buf), t. ; pret. and pp. abutted, ppr. 
abutting. [< ME. abutten, abouten, < OF. abou- 
ter, abater, abut (P. abouter, join end to end), < 
a, to, + bout, but, end; cf. OF. boter, F. bouter, 
thrust, push, butt : see but ft. The mod. F. abou- 
tir, arrive at, tend to, end in, depends in most 
of its senses upon bout, an end, though strictly 
it represents the OF. abouter, in the sense of 
'thrust toward.'] I. intrans. 1. To touch at 
the end ; be contiguous ; join at a border or 
boundary; terminate; rest: with on, upon, or 
against before the object : as, his land abuts 
upon mine ; the building abuts on the highway ; 
the bridge abuts against the solid rock. 
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts 
The perilous, narrow ocean parts asunder. 
Shalt., Hen. V., i. (cho.). 
Steam is constantly issuing in jets from the bottom of a 
small ravine-like hollow, which has no exit, and which 
abut* against a range of tracbytic mountains. 
Danrin, Geol. Observations, i. 2. 
In the last resort all these questions of physical specu- 
lation abut upon a metaphysical question. 
IT. K. Cliford, Lectures, I. -24:i. 
The lustrous splendor of the walls abutting upon the 
Grand Canal. D. G. Mitehell, Bound Together, ii. 
2. In ship-building, same as butt 1 , 3. Abutting 
owner, an owner of land which abuts or joins. Thus, 
the owner of land bounded by a highway or river, or by a 
tract of land belonging to another person, is said in refer- 
ence to the latter to be an abutting owner. The term 
usually implies that the relative parts actually adjoin, 
but is sometimes loosely used without implying more 
than close proximity. Abutting power (in an active 
sense), the ability of an abutment to resist the thrust or 
strain of the arch, gas, fluid, etc., pressing or reacting 
against it. Abutting joint. See abutment, 2 (6) (2). 
