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Effort is made to avoid the use of abbreviations as far as practicable under our space limitation, or to give them in such full form that they may be readily understood. A full list of the abbreviations employed will be presented in the Preface to the Dictionary. In the accompanying sample pages, [H. '90.] following an illustrative quotation indicates that the edition quoted from was published by Harper Brothers, in 1890; [H. & S. '83.] indicates that the edition quoted from was published by Hodder & Stoughton, in 1883; etc. THE FOLLOWING WE TAKE AT RANDOM FROM THE DEFINITIONS IN "THE STANDARD DICTIONARY." WE INVITE OUR READERS TO COMPARE THEM WITH THE CORRESPONDING DEFINITIONS IN OTHER LEADING DICTIONARIES. aa, aa, d'a, n. A form of cooled lava-stream, consisting of rough blocks, piled to a height of from 20 to 40 feet, the material being brittle but not scoriaceous: contrasted with pahoehoe. The aspect of one of these aa streams is repellent to the last degree, and may without exaggeration be termed horrible. U. S. Geol. Survey, 4th Annual Report '83, vol. iii, ch. 2, p. 95. [Hawaiian.] Al, ê'wun', a. 1. Of the first or highest class: used in registry of shipping to denote the condition of a vessel as to hull and equipment. 14, 14, 2, 2, and 3, are also used with A, and denote a descending scale of seaworthi2. Of first class financial standing: applied to a business man or firm. 3. First class; prime; as, an A1 horse; an A1 house. This symbol is read A one, or A number one. ness. ... an A number one cook, and no mistake. H. B. STOWE Dred ch. 23, p. 270. [H. M. & CO. '89.] ab"a-lo'ne, ab'a-lo'ne, n. A shell fish (gastropod), genus Haliotis, having an ear-shaped, flattened, slightly spiral shell, with a series of perforations (see fig.) toward the outer edge of the back; ear shell; sea ear. shell is used largely for inlaying, and for making buttons, beads, and other ornaments. The animal with its shell is called 'abalone.' The A. AGASSIZ Letter to Standard Dict. Oct. 6, '90. In California these mollusks are all known as abalone, which is said to be a corruption of Spanish aulon or aulone. Fishery Industries U. S. sect. v, vol. ii, p. 622. -Abalone fishery, an extensive industry of the California coast, arising from the value of the shell and meat of the abalone.-Abalone meat, the soft parts of the abalone dried, chiefly for export. a-ban'don, a-ban'dun, vt. 1. To forsake or renounce utterly; relinquish all connection with or hope in; give up wholly; desert!; quit; leave. Finding it no longer prudent to play the perilous part of a spy, Crosby abandoned the secret service. LOSSING Men and Women of the Revolution ch. 20, p. 225. [F. & W. '89.] 2. To resign; yield; give over entirely to another; as, to abandon an office. 3. To yield or devote (oneself) without restraint, as to the pursuit of a pleasure. A man abandons himself to a fine frenzy, and the power which flows through him... makes him the medium of a great poem or a great picture. HOLMES Autocrat ch. 8, p. 221. [T. & F. '60.] 4. Law. See ABANDONMENT, 3. 5t. To banish; reject. [<F. abandonner, < à bandon, in the power; à, < L. ad, to; bandon, <LL. bandum, bannum, < OHG. ban; see BAN, n.]-a-ban'don-er, n. Synonyms: abdicate, abjure, cast off, cease, cede, depart from, desert, discontinue, forego, forsake, forswear, give up, leave, quit, recant, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, retract, surrender, vacate, withdraw from. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. A cowardly officer deserts his ship; the helpless passengers abandon it. We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. Abandon sometimes implies a previous close relationship or responsibility: a man withdraws from a crowd; he abandons his wife, child, partner, or church. It is applied to both good and evil action: a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles. See under ABJURE.-Antonyms: advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support,undertake, uphold, vindicate.-Preposition: abandon to sorrow. ab'a-bil, ab'a-bil, n. 1. A fabulous bird of Persian mythology, said to have brought the smallpox from the sea to Ethiopia. 2. The smallpox. This use of the term probably arose from a mistaken interpretation of a passage in the Koran, the word ababil (meaning a sepa rate flock, a bevy) having been taken to mean a special variety of birds. F. Med. Dict. ab'a-ca, ab'a-ca, n. A scitamineous plant (Musa textilis) of the Philippine islands, or its fiber (manila hemp): used in making matting, rope, cloth, etc. ab'a-kat. a-bil'i-ty, a-bil'i-ti, n. [-ITIES, pl.] 1. The state of being able; the quality that makes able; power, whether physical or mental, especially power to plan, direct, give, or do; adequate strength, skill, or resources; talent; faculty. Sir Isaac Newton humbly said that he had one talent: the ability to look steadily at a problem until he saw it through. E. S. PHELPS Strug. for Immortality p. 215. [II. M. & CO. '89.] Bismarck, three years ago, was the one great figure of all Europe, with more power concentrated in his hands, with more ability for good or for evil, than any human being in the world possessed at that time. DEPEW Speech, N. Y. Tribune Sept. 11, '90, p. 2, col. 2. 2. [Archaic.] Property; pecuniary means; wealth. [<OF. habilite, < L. habilitas, < habilis; see ABLE.] -abilimentt. General ability, in economics, those faculties and that general knowledge and intelligence which are in varying degrees the common property of all the higher grades of industry; manhood as a new factor in modern economics.-Specialized ability, that manual dexterity and that acquaintance with particular materials and processes which are required for the special purposes of individual trades. ALFRED MARSHALL Modern Economics vol. 1, bk. iv, ch. 6, § 2, p. 263. [MACM. '90.] -Natural ability, in theology, the possession of the natural faculties requisite to do God's will.- Moral ability, a condition of the will that makes it fit to receive divine favors or carry out divine commands. Synonyms: aptitude, capacity, cleverness, competency, dexterity, efficiency, expertness, faculty, power, qualifica tion, readiness, skill, talent. Ability includes every form of power. Capacity is power to receive, efficiency power to do, to effect. Competency is equal to the occasion, readiness prompt for the occasion. Faculty is an inherent quality of mind or body; talent some special mental ability. Dexterity and skill are knowledge and power suited to some special purpose, and are largely acquired. Our abilities include our natural capacity, faculties, and talents, with all the dexterity, skill, and readiness, that can be acquired. Eiciency brings all one's ability to bear promptly on the thing to be done.-Antonyms: awkwardness, dulness, imbecility, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness. a-bom'i-na-ble, a. 1. Very hateful; loathsome; detestable; horrible; as, an abominable monster. Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable. MILTON P. L. bk. ii, 1. 624. 2. [Colloq.] Extremely disagreeable; detestable. The rain was pitiless, and the road abominable. TYNDALL Glaciers pt. i, § 27, p. 218. [J. M. '60.] Abhominable was the regular spelling of abominable in French and English, from Wycliff to the 17th century, "and explained as ab homine, quasi, away from man, inhuman, beastly,' a derivation which influenced the use and has permanently affected the meaning of the word. No other spelling occurs in the first follo of Shaks., which has the word 18 times; and in L. L. L. act v, sc. 1, Holophernes abhors the 'rackers of Ortagriphie,' who were beginning to write abominable for the time-honored abhominable." [M.] [OF., < L. abominabilis, < abominor; see ABOMINATE, 0.] -a-bom'i-na-ble-ness, n.-a-bom'i-na-bly, ado. Synonyms: abhorrent, accursed, detestable, execrable, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nauseous, odious, offensive, repulsive.-Antonyms: admirable, beautiful, charming, delectable, delightful, enjoyable, excellent, grateful, a-bout', prep. 1. Being or moving round or over; surlovely, sweet, worthy. rounding: (1) On every side of; all round, so as to encircle; as, walls about a city. About the new-arrived, in multitudes The ethereal people ran. MILTON P. L. bk. x, 1. 26. For the wars which were about him on every side. I Kings v, 3. (2) Round the outside of; around, as opposed to across, over, or into; as, the movement of a planet about the sun. (3) Round or over the parts of; to and fro in; upon; as, to go about the world." Cant. v. 7. The watchmen that went about the city found me. I have standen in full great degree 3. In connection with: (1) Having to do with; engaged explain a thing till all men doubt it, a-bove', prep. 1. Over: (1) Vertically over; as, the Some music is above me; most music is beneath me. -carriage bolt, a square-necked bolt with a screw shank and chamfered head.-exe-bolt, one having instead of a head, a closed ring or loop the axis of which is at right angles with the bolt-shank.-key-bolt, one not threaded, but secured by a wedge thrust through its shank.-lagi bolt, one with a flat head used to fasten lag-straps to a band wheel; sometimes a lag-screw, or square-headed, taper-shanked, wood-bolt.-machine-bolt, one with a shank threaded cylindrically, and a square or hexagonal head, and generally having a square or fin to keep it from turning in its nut.-ring bolt, an eye-bolt in the eye of which there is a closed ring.-safety-bolt, one with its pin locked in place.-shackle:holt, (a) one having a shackle or clevis in its end, or (b) one passing through the eyes of a shackle or clevis.-shoe-bolt, one with a countersunk head, for sleigh-runners and the like.-U bolt, one having a U shape with nut screwing on each of the adjacent ends. 2. Any missile hurled swiftly, as an arrow, a long cylindrical cannon-shot, or the like; hence, anything sent upon one suddenly; as, a bolt of disaster. It made Mr. Lincoln President and drove the bolt of death straight to the life of human slavery. CHITTENDEN Recollections of Lincoln ch. 46, p. 436. [H. '91.] 3. A shaft of lightning; a thunderbolt: from the sense in 2. And louder than the bolts of heaven Far flashed the red artillery. CAMPBELL Hohenlinden st. 4. 4. A secession from a party; a refusal to support a candidate or policy of the party to which one has belonged: a sense in wide political use in the United States. 5. A sudden start, departure, or spring; as, to make a bolt for home. He was more strongly tempted .. to make excursive bolts into the neighboring alleys when he answered the door. DICKENS Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 9, p. 172. [E. & L. '86.] 6. A sliding piece which fastens a door or window usually by entering a hole, staple or its equivalent in or on the casing. 7. The locking-piece which withstands the stress in the lock or latch of a door or window. 8. A roll of a definite number of yards, depending upon the material. A bolt of white cotton material, as sheeting, is about 90 yards. 9. In wood-working, (1) a block of wood from which something is to be made; as, a shingle bolt; a stave bolt. (2) A number of boards or planks still fastened together at one end by a stub-shot or unsawed part. 10. The folded or doubled edge and top of a sheet in an uncut book. 11. Naut. A bolt rope. 12. In fire arms, (1) a sliding piece to push a cartridge in place, and through which the firing pin works. (2) That part of a snap-gun which passes into the barrel leg to hold together the barrel and the action. 13. A bundle, as of straw, oziers, or reeds.-bolt: auger, n. In ship-building, an auger for boring holes for bolts.-boltsboat, n. A strongly built boat for use in a rough sea.- bolt-cutter, n. A machine for cutting off bolts; also a machine for cutting screw-threads on bolts. - bolt-die, n. 1. A female-threaded die for cutting the thread on bolts. 2. A swaging-die for forming the bolt blanks.- bolt-dog, n. A lathe attachment for chucking square-headed bolts.- bolt head, n. A spherical glass vessel with a long, narrow, slender neck.-bolt holder, 2. An implement to prevent a bolt from turning while its nut is being screwed on.- bolt hole, n. Mining. An opening between the air-head, and the main working. [C.]-bolt: hook, n. A check-rein hook bolted to a saddle-tree of a harness.- bolt-knife, n. In book-binding, a knife for cutting through a ball; see BOLT 10 (above).-bolt-rope, n. Naut. A rope forming the border of a sail.-bolts strake, n. Naut. The strake or wale through which the beam fastenings pass. KNIGHT Mech. Dict.- bringing: to bolt, one used to bring together members of a structure or to tighten it.- copper bolt, a copper soldering-bit. bolt2, n. Milling. 1. A nearly horizontal rotating cylinder or prismoidal frame, covered with silk or other fabric with very regular meshes, for sifting and separating the the flour of wheat from the hull or bran. Usually different sections of its length are covered with cloth of varying size of mesh. 2. A given quantity of flour and bran forming a single grist.-bolt-cleaver, n. A machine or an attachment for freeing the meshes of flour-bolting cloths.-bolt: feeder, n. A device for supplying and regulating the grist for a flour bolt. Although the absolution of the priest is the granting of a favor which is not his own, yet the act is not merely ministerial or declarative, but judicial also. Council of Trent xiv, ch. 6. (b) Reconciliation to the Church of a person previously severed from it. (c) Solemn rite performed at the end of the funeral service, on the remains of the departed. Family names are to a large extent units in biological (2) Luth. Ch. The announcement of forgiveness to the generalizations, and therefore constantly occurring in believer, which being made in God's name and in God's biological literature. They should be given in a large stead is to be believed as God's word. (3) Other Chs. dictionary, and these omissions from some of our most The declaration or imploring of God's forgiveness by a popular dictionaries is a grave fault. The following will priest or minister; also, the forgiveness itself. 2. The words or formula used in absolving. 3. Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses, generally. Forgive! how many will say, 'forgive,' and find To hate a little longer! TENNYSON Sea Dreams 1. 60. Of massy iron, or solid rock, with ease flush-bolt guard-bolt hanger-bolt key head bolt knob-screw bolt loop-bolt ring-bolt shaft-bolt sink-bolt step-bolt stove-bolt tap-bolt tire-bolt track-bolt serve as samples: Alcedinidæ, n. pl. Ornith. A family of syndactylous birds, having a straight, deeply-cleft bill with smooth edges; the kingfishers. Alcedida‡.-alcedinoid, a.-alcedinid, n. Alcidæ, n. pl. Ornith. A family of pygopodous birds of northern seas, having the wings and tail short or aborted, and three towed webbed feet; the auks.-alcidine, a.-alcoid, a.-alcid, n. Acipenserida, n. pl. Ích. A family of chondrosteous fishes, having an elongated body with five rows of shields and a projecting snout with four barbels in a transverse row on its inferior surface and in front of the small toothless mouth; the sturgeon, etc. Acipenseroldæt, Accipenseridæf.acipenseroid, a. & n.-acipenserid, n. Bradypodidæ, n. pl. Mam. A family of edentates, having five pairs of molar teeth in the upper and four pairs in the lower jaw and elongated fore limbs with three- or two-clawed digits; including the sloths. -Bradypus, n. Type genus.-bradypodoid, a. &n.-bradypodid, n. Bradypodine, n. pl. Mam. A subfamily of bradypodids including either all the sloths or only the three-toed sloths,-bradypodine, a. & n. "The Synonyms and Antonyms particularly please me. I like the plan and general appearance. ."- Ex-Pres. JULIUS H. SEELYE, Amherst College. WHO THE OPINIONS OF CRITICS HAVE SEEN THE Prof. Skeat, Etymologist, of Cambridge University, England, Pleased and Surprised. And Dr. Murray, of Oxford, Editor of the Celebrated New English Dictionary, Commends the Work. Prof. W. C. WILKINSON, in a letter from England, writes: "I showed Prof. Skeat the sample pages of 'The Standard Dictionary.' He looked them over with the evident interest of a practical lexicographer. He approved the introduction of the phonetic element and the exhibition of the tentative scientific alphabet. 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Не "Dr. Murray, of Oxford University, expressly consents to be quoted publicly by you in testimony to the following points: (1) That the introduction of the phonetic element was a desirable recognition of the need of Reformed Spelling, and that Professor March's editorship of this department was everything that could be asked for; (2) that as a practical matter, in a popular dictionary, the order of usage' had the preponderance of reasons in its favor; (3) that the specimen pages of the Standard Dictionary had, on examination, appeared to him to be as well done as was practicable within the necessarily small compass of a single volume dictionary." The Plan Admirable and will Better Meet Existing Needs. י THEO. W. HUNT, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Princeton, writes: "I have examined carefully the prospectus and sample pages of 'The Standard Dictionary.' The plan is admirable and ought to meet with general acceptance. In a work of this kind, the scholars engaged on it are as important a factor as the plan itself. The cooperation of such scholars as March, Doremus, Newcomb, Harper, Balg, Harrison, etc., should ensure success. Of the two dictionaries, the revision of Webster, and your work, your plan is the better one and will better meet existing needs. It has the great virtue of being unique and independent. Three or four of its features are especially commendable: 1. Placing definitions before etymologies. 2. Giving the preference to present meanings. 3. Reducing technicalities to a minimum. 4. Giving due emphasis to phonetic spelling. 5. Your treatment of quotations. "These are all excellent features and are found no PLAN AND PORTIONS where else in such good form. You have also avoided the extreme, as I regard it, of excessive quotations, illustrations, and cyclopedic matter. I presume a clear explanation will be given of the phonetic alphabet, used in the pronunciation of words. This will be given in the Preface to the Dictionary.-Editor.] It is a Dictionary that will meet the common needs of the people. The Century is a lexicographical luxury. Yours will be THE ENGLISH PEOPLE'S WORD BOOK. The best criticism, however, of your Dictionary that I can send you is an acceptance blank. I am advising my students to pro cure it." A Searching Comparison with other Dictionaries by a Prominent Canadian Educator. W. J. CARSON, Principal Teacher's Training School, London, Canada, writes: "For some time the teachers of this city have been holding back from selecting a new dictionary until they could examine the sample pages of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary.' I have now received and examined the sample pages, comparing them from a to abide with the corresponding portion of The International Webster' and 'Worcester.' 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