[Abingdon] (6), a borough in Berks, 6 m. S. of Oxford.
[Abiogenesis], the doctrine of spontaneous generation.
[Abipones], a once powerful warlike race in La Plata, now nearly all absorbed.
[Able man], man with "a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute" (Gibbon).
[Abner], a Hebrew general under Saul; assassinated by Joab.
[Abo], the old capital of Finland and seat of the government, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
[Ab`omey], the capital of Dahomey, in W. Africa.
[Abou`kir], village near Alexandria, in Egypt, on the bay near which Nelson destroyed the French fleet in 1799; where Napoleon beat the Turks, 1799; and where Abercrombie fell, 1801.
[About, Edmond], spirited French littérateur and journalist (1828-1885).
[Abraham], the Hebrew patriarch, ancestor of the Jews, the very type of an Eastern pastoral chief at once by his dignified character and simple faith.