| abate | | (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.... | A |
| abate | | (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.... | A |
| abate | | (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.... | A |
| abate | | (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.... | A |
| abate | | (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.... | A |
| abate | | (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.... | A |
| abatement | | (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.... | A |
| abatement | | (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.... | A |
| abatement | | (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.... | A |
| abator | | (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.... | A |
| abattis | | (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.... | A |
| abature | | (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.... | A |
| abbess | | (n.) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.... | A |
| abbey | | (n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.... | A |
| abbot | | (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.... | A |
| abbreviate | | (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.... | A |
| abbreviate | | (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.... | A |
| abbreviation | | (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.... | A |
| abbreviation | | (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United Sta... | A |
| abbreviator | | (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute in... | A |