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t. [M. H. Ger. erbreiten.] Το dilate. ( Stratmann.) A-bra-hăm, A'-bram [Lat. Abraham us; Sept. Gr. 'Appαάμ (Habraam. Heb.אברהם ( Abraham )=father of a multitude: the second and original form (Abram) is from Gr. "Αβραμ )Habram); Heb. אברם Abram ) = father of elevation.] An ancient patriarch, father and founder of the Jewish nation. (See Gen. xi. -XXV.) In compounds : Derived from, connected, or pretending to be connected with the patriarch Abraham. Abraham-man. Tom of Bedlam, or Bedlam Beggar = a sturdy beggar. The Abraham-men formerly roamed through England, begging and pilfering: they were well known in Shakespeare's time, and on to the period of the Civil Wars. "An Abraham-man is he that walketh bare-armed and bare-legged, and fayneth hymself mad, and caryeth a packe of wool, or a stycke with baken on it, or such lyke to ye, and nameth himself poor Tom."-Fraternitye of Vacabondes (1575). "And these what name or title e'er they bear Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, Frater, or Abram - man , I speak to all That stand in fair election for the title Of king of beggars." Beaumont & Fletcher: Begg. Bush , ii. 1. The phrase "to sham Abraham," still common among sailors, and meaning to feign sickne , is probably founded on the hypocritical pretences of the Abraham-men. Abraham New land. A name formerly given to Bank of England notes, owing to their bearing the signature of Abraham New land, who was chief cashier for many years. Dibdin alludes to him in the lines "Sham Abraham you may, But you mustn't sham Abraham New land." * Abraham's balm, 8. According to Cocker am, "a willow in Italy that brings forth agnus cast us like pepper." Bullokar (1641) says that it was used as a charm to preserve chastity. (See Hall i well: Dict . of Obs . Eng.) + Abraham's eye, s. A magical charm, the application of which was supposed to deprive a thief, who refused to confe his crime, of eyesight. ( MS . on Magic , 16th Cent.) IMG:content-0041.png:[blocks in formation] chrestic for AUBURN. IMG:content-0042.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A sect of Paulicians who rose towards the end of the eighth century, and were suppre ed by Cyriacus, Patriarch of Antioch. Their leader was Abraham, a native of Antioch. 2. An order of monks who practised idolatry, and were in consequence extirpated by Theophilus in the ninth century. 3. A Bohemian sect, nominally followers of John Hu , who, in 1782, avowed themselves as holding what they alleged to have been Abraham's creed before his circumcision. They believed in the unity of God, but at the same time they accepted none of the Bible except the Lord's Prayer. In 1783 the Emperor Joseph II. expelled them from Bohemia. IMG:content-0043.png:[blocks in formation] nausea. "As a man all ravished with gladne Abrayded with a loud voice, Elyot on Boucher. (Wedgwood.) 4. To arise in the stomach with a sense of Still used in this sense in the North of England. ( Troilus & Creseide, i. 725.) [ABREDE.]