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Abalienate
() To estrange; to withdraw.
Abalienate
() To cause alienation of (mind).
Abalienation
() The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Abalone
() A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
Aband
() To abandon.
Aband
() To banish; to expel.
Abandoned
() of Abandon
Abandoning
() of Abandon
Abandon
() To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Abandon
() To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
Abandon
() Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
Abandon
() To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
Abandon
() Abandonment; relinquishment.
Abandon
() A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
Abandoned
() Forsaken, deserted.
Abandoned
() Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
Abandonedly
() Unrestrainedly.
Abandonee
() One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
Abandoner
() One who abandons.
Abandonment
() The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
Abandonment
() The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
Abandonment
() The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
Abandonment
() The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
Abandonment
() Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
Abandum
() Anything forfeited or confiscated.
Abanet
() See Abnet.
Abanga
() A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.
Abannation
() Alt. of Abannition
Abannition
() Banishment.
Abarticulation
() Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.
Abased
() of Abase
Abasing
() of Abase
Abase
() To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
Abase
() To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
Abased
() Lowered; humbled.
Abased
() Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
Abasedly
() Abjectly; downcastly.
Abasement
() The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
Abaser
() He who, or that which, abases.
Abashed
() of Abash
Abashing
() of Abash
Abash
() To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
Abashedly
() In an abashed manner.
Abashment
() The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
Abassi
() Alt. of Abassis
Abassis
() A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.
Abatable
() Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.
Abated
() of Abate
Abating
() of Abate
Abate
() To beat down; to overthrow.