Part 47

<cs><col>Abruptly pinnate</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end.</cd></cs>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Abruptness</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*rupt"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; <as>as, <ex>abruptness</ex> of style or manner</as>.</def>

<h1>Abscess</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab"scess</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Abscesses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>abscessus</ets> a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. <ets>abscessus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>absedere</ets> to go away; <ets>ab</ets>, <ets>abs</ets> + <ets>cedere</ets> to go off, retire. See <er>Cede</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.</def>

<cs><col>Cold abscess</col>, <cd>an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.</cd></cs>

<h1>Abscession</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*sces"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>abscessio</ets> a separation; fr. <ets>absedere</ets>. See <er>Abscess</er>.]</ety> <def>A separating; removal; also, an abscess.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Gauden. Barrough.</i>

<h1>Abscind</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*scind"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>absindere</ets>; <ets>ab + scindere</ets> to rend, cut. See <er>Schism</er>.]</ety> <def>To cut off.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "Two syllables . . . <i>abscinded</i> from the rest."

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Abscision</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*sci"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>abscisio</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Abscission</er>.</def>

<h1>Absciss</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab"sciss</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Abscisses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <def>See <er>Abscissa</er>.</def>

<h1>Abscissa</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*scis"sa</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>E. pl. <plw>Abscissas</plw>, L. pl. <plw>Absciss\'91</plw></plu>. <ety>[L., fem. of <ets>abscissus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>absindere</ets> to cut of. See <er>Abscind</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co\'94rdinate axes.</def><note> When referred to two intersecting axes, one of them called the axis of abscissas, or of X, and the other the axis of ordinates, or of Y, the <i>abscissa</i> of the point is the distance cut off from the axis of X by a line drawn through it and parallel to the axis of Y. When a point in space is referred to three axes having a common intersection, the <i>abscissa</i> may be the distance measured parallel to either of them, from the point to the plane of the other two axes. Abscissas and ordinates taken together are called co\'94rdinates. -- OX or PY is the <i>abscissa</i> of the point P of the curve, OY or PX its ordinate, the intersecting lines OX and OY being the axes of abscissas and ordinates respectively, and the point O their origin.</note>

<h1>Abscission</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*scis"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>abscissio</ets>. See <er>Abscind</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of cutting off.</def> "Not to be cured without the <i>abscission</i> of a member."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being cut off.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."</def>

<h1>Abscond</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ab*scond"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Absconded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Absconding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>abscondere</ets> to hide; <ets>ab</ets>, <ets>abs + condere</ets> to lay up; <ets>con + d\'ddre</ets> (only in comp.) to put. Cf. <er>Do</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.</def>