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Abranchiata: Definition and part of speech

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Abranchiata

  1. n. pl. A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abridge: Definition and part of speech

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Abridge

  1. v. t. To deprive; to cut off; — followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
  2. v. t. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
  3. v. t. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abrasion: Definition and part of speech

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Abrasion

  1. n. A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.
  2. n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
  3. n. The substance rubbed off.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.