Defn: A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.]
Fuller.
ABED
A*bed", adv. Etym: [Pref. a- in, on + bed.]
1. In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.
2. To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.
ABEGGE
A*beg"ge.
Defn: Same as Aby. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ABELE A*bele", n. Etym: [D. abeel (abeel-boom), OF. abel, aubel, fr. a dim. of L. albus white.]
Defn: The white polar (Populus alba).
Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.
ABELIAN; ABELITE; ABELONIAN
A*bel"i*an, A"bel*ite, A`bel*o"ni*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.