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 ABSORBENT medicines, tetaceous powders, as chalk, crabs-eyes, &c. which are taken inwardly for drying up or aborbing any acrid or redundant humours in the tomach or intetines, They are likewie applied outwardly to ulcers or ores with the ame intention.

veels, in anatomy, a name given promicuously to the lacteal veels, lymphatics, and inhalent arteries. See.

veels, is alo a name used for the mall fibrous roots of plants.  ABSORPTION, in the animal œconomy, is the act whereby the aborbent veels imbibe the juices, &c.  ABSTEMIOUS, an epithet applied to perons very temperate in eating and drinking. It is likewie applied to thoe who could not partake of the Eucharit on account of their averion to wine.  ABSTENTUS, in law, an heir who is with-held by his tutor from entering upon his inheritance.  ABSTERGENT medicines, thoe employed for reolving obtructions, concretions, &c, such as oap, &c.  ABSTINENCE, the refraining from omething we have a propenity to. It commonly imports a pare diet.  ABSTINENTS, in church hitory, a sort of people in the ancient church who carried their abstinence and mortification very far. They have been classed with heretics, though we have no certain account of their particular opinions.  ABSTRACT idea, in metaphyics, is a partial idea of a complex object, limited to one or more of the component parts or properties, laying aide or abtracting from the ret. Thus, in viewing an object with the eye, or recollecting it in the mind, we can eaily abtract from ome of its parts or properties, and attach ourelves to others: we can attend to the rednes of a cherry, without regard to its figure, tate, or conitence. See,.

terms, words that are ued to expres abtract ideas. Thus beauty, uglines, whitenes, roundnes, life, death, are abtract terms.

mathematics, ometimes denominated pure mathematics, treat of magnitude or quantity abolutely and generally conidered, without regard to any particular pecies of magnitude.

numbers, uch as have no particular application.

, is alo a term in literature to ignify a concie, yet general view or analyis of ome larger work. It differs from an abridgment, in being horter and more uperficial; and from an extract, as this lat is a copy of ome part or paage of it. <section end="Abstract" /> <section begin="Abstraction" />ABSTRACTION, the operation of the mind when occupied by abtract ideas. A large oak fixes our attention, and abtracts us from the hrubs that urround it. In the ame manner, a beautiful woman in a crowd, abtracts our thoughts, and engroes our attention olely to herelf. Thee are examples of real abtraction: when thee, or any others of a imilar kind, are recalled to the mind, after the objects themelves are removed from our ight, they form what is called abtract ideas, or the mind is aid to be employed in abtract ideas. But the power of abtraction is not confined to objects that are eparable in reality as well as mentally: the ize, the figure, the colour of a tree are ineparably connected, and cannot exit independent of each other; and yet we can mentally confine our obervations to any one of thee properties, neglecting or abtracting from the ret.

, in chemitry, the evaporating or drawing off the mentruum from any ubject. <section end="Abstraction" /> <section begin="Absctractitious" />ABSTRACTITIOUS, an obolete term, among chemits, for a vegetable pirit obtained without fermentation. <section end="Absctractitious" /> <section begin="Abstruse" />ABSTRUSE, a term applied to any thing that is hard to be undertood, whether the obcurity aries from the difficulty of the ubject, or the confued manner of the writer. <section end="Abstruse" /> <section begin="Absurd" />ABSURD, an epithet for any thing that contradicts an apparent truth. <section end="Absurd" /> <section begin="Absurdity" />ABSURDITY, the name of an aburd action or entiment. <section end="Absurdity" /> <section begin="Absus" />ABSUS, in botany, the trivial name of a pecies of the caia. <section end="Absus" /> <section begin="Absynthium" />ABSYNTHIUM. See. <section end="Absynthium" /> <section begin="Abuai" />ABUAI, one of the Philippine iles. See. <section end="Abuai" /> <section begin="Abucco" />ABUCCO,, or , a weight ued in the kingdom of Pegu, equal to 12 teccalis; two abuccos make an agiro; and two agiri make half a biza, which is equal to 2 lb, 5 oz. of the heavy weight of Venice. <section end="Abucco" /> <section begin="Abukeso" />ABUKESO. See. <section end="Abukeso" /> <section begin="Abuna" />ABUNA, the title of the Archbihop or Metropolitan of Abyinia. <section end="Abuna" /> <section begin="Abundant" />ABUNDANT numbers, such whoe aliquot parts added together exceed the number itelf; as 20, the aliquot parts of which are, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, and make 22. <section end="Abundant" /> <section begin="Abusan" />ABUSAN, an iland on the coat of Africa, in 35. 35. N lat. dependent on the province of Garet, in the kingdom of Fez. <section end="Abusan" /> <section begin="Abuse" />ABUSE, implies the perverting of any thing from its original intention. <section end="Abuse" /> <section begin="Abutige" />ABUTIGE, a town in Upper Egypt, famous for producing the bet opium. <section end="Abutige" /> <section begin="Abuttals" />ABUTTALS. See. <section end="Abuttals" /> <section begin="Abutilon" />ABUTILON, in botany, the trivial name of everal pecies of the ida. See. Abutilon is alo a ynonime of the melochia tomentoa, and melochia deprea, two American plants of the monadelphia pentandria clas. It itIt [sic] is likewie a ynonime of the lavatora, malva, and hibicus. <section end="Abutilon" /> <section begin="Abyss" />ABYSS, in a general ene, ignifies any unfathomable gulph. It is alo the name of a vat cavern filled with water, uppoed to exit near the centre of the earth.

, in cripture, is ometimes ued for hell.

, in antiquity, a name given to the temple of Proerpine,

, among alchemits, signifies the receptacle of the eminal matter, and ometimes the eminal matter itelf. <section end="Abyss" /> <section begin="Abyssinia" />ABYSSINIA, a kingdom of Africa, bounded on the N. by that of Sennar, or Nubia; on the E. partly by the Red ea, and partly by Dancala; on the W, by Gorham and Gingiro; and on the S. by Alaba and Ommo-Zaidi. It was formerly of greater <section end="Abyssinia" /> 3