n.
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
n.
The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
n.
The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
n.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
n.
A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.
adv.
On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.
v. t.
To bear; to behave.
v. t.
To put up with; to endure.
n.
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
n.
One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
a.
Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
n.
A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
adv.
In bed, or on the bed.
adv.
To childbed (in the phrase \"brought abed,\" that is, delivered of a child).
n.
The white poplar (Populus alba).