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n. [ L. abnegatio: cf. F. abnégation. ] a denial; a renunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abnegativus. ] Denying; renouncing; negative. [ R. ] Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Heb. ] The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abnodatus, p. p. of abnodare; ab + nodus knot. ] To clear (tress) from knots. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For earlier anormal, F. anormal, LL. anormalus for anomalus, Gr. &unr_;. Confused with L. abnormis. See Anomalous, Abnormous, Anormal. ] Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. “That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. ” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an abnormal condition.
Syn. -- abnormality [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Abnormalities 1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something abnormal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Abnormities [ LL. abnormitas. See Abnormous. ] Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. “An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads.” Mrs. Whitney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abnormis; ab + norma rule. See Normal. ] Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Com.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game played by children with nuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being glib. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Hobnob. ] By chance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1st hob + nail. ] 1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See with hobnails, as a shoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hornobbed p. pr. & vb. n. Hornobbing. ] 1. To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms; as, to hobnob with the political elite. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. habban to have + habban to have not; ne not + habban to have. See Have, and cf. Habnab. ] 1. Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Familiar, social intercourse. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Hübner, who analyzed it. ] (Min.) A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

n. The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obnoxius; ob (see Ob-) + noxius hurtful. See Noxious. ] 1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obnoxious, first or last,
To basest things Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. “The contrived and interested schemes of . . . obnoxious authors.” Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,
Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
Watching your scepter. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. obnubilatus, p. p. of obnubilare to obscure. See Ob-, and Nubilate. ] To cloud; to obscure. [ Obs. ] Burton. -- Ob*nu"bi*la"tion n. [ Obs. ] Beddoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Moderately narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. subnascens, p. pr. of subnasci to grow under; sub under + nasci to be born. ] Growing underneath. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. subnectere, subnextum; sub under + nectere to tie. ] To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Subnect. ] To subjoin; to subnect. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. subnotatio a signing underneath, fr. subnotare to subscribe; sub under + notare to note or mark. ] A rescript. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. sub + It. nuvola cloud: cf. L. subnubilus somewhat cloudy. ] Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [ R. & Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes. [ 1913 Webster ]