Abies

Fig . 10. ABIES AMERICAN A. Abietic Acid. (Chem.) When Strasburg or Canadian turpentine (obtained from abies pice a , or silver fir, and abies balsamea , or balm fir) is distilled with water; the residue exhausted with absolute alcohol; the solu tion evaporated to dryne ; the residual resin boiled with twice its weight of solution of carbonate of pota ium; the alkaline liquid poured off; and the residue, which is a mixture of abietin and abietate of pota ium, treated with 30 times its weight of water, - abietin separates in the crystalline form, while abitate of pota ium remains in solution. This di olution may be decomposed by sulphuric acid, and the precipitated abietic acid purified by digestion in hot aqueous ammonia; as thus obtained, it is a resinous ma which di olves easily in alcohol, ether, and volatile oils, forming acid solutions, from which it separates in the crystalline state. At 550 it becomes soft and translucent. Abi'etin. ( Chem .) It is a tastele , inodorous resin, soluble in alcohol, especially at the boiling heat. It melts when heated, and solidifies in a crystalline ma on cooling. Its formula is not known. (See Abietic Acid.) Abietineæ, n. pl . [From abies .] ( Bot . ) A sub-ord. of the Pinaceæ, composed of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs. Trunks straight and conical: leaves either solitary, or collected in little fasciles; flowers in calkins, consisting of open imbricated carpels in the form of scales in the axil of a bract; fruits forming a strobile or cone. The principal genera are Pinus and Abies. Abigail, the beautiful wife of Nabal, a wealthy owner of goats and sheep in Carmel. When David's me engers were slighted by Nabal, Abigail took the blame upon herself, and succeeded in appeasing the anger of David. Ten days after, Nabal died, and David sent for Abigail and made her his wife. (1 Sam. xxv. 14, .) This IMG:content-0017.png:[graphic] the post-office is GLENBURN. Abington, in the same State, a village of Montgomery co., about 10 m. N. of Philadelphia. Ab initio. [Lat.] From the beginning. A bint estate, a . [Lat. a bin test at us , having made no last will.] ( Law .) Inheriting from a person who died intestate, or without making a will. Ab'inzi, Abinzy, or Abinksk Tartars, the name of a Tartar community in Western Siberia, about 600 miles from Tobolsk. Abipo'nians, a tribe of American Indians, who formerly inhabited the district of El Gran Chaco, in Paraguay; but the hostilities of the Spaniards finally compelled them to remove southward into the territory Iying between Santa Fé and St. Jago. The whole nation does not much exceed 5,000. A'biqua, a township of Marion co., Oregon. A birr it at i on, n . ( Med . ) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength. Abis'bal, HENRY O'DONNELL, Count of, a celebrated Spanish general. B. in And alus i a, 1770. On Napoleon'e invasion of Spain, the part he took in the relief of Ge ron a, 1807, led to his promotion to the command of Catalonia. Though defeated in the plains of Vich by Gen. Souham, he a month afterward forced Augereau to abandon Lower Catalonia; and at the village of Abisbal, he compelled the surrender of a whole French column under Gen. Schwartz. D. in France, 1834. Abish'ai, son of David's sister Zeruiah, and brother to Joab, was one of the celebrated warriors who flourished in the reign of David. He killed with his own hand 300 men, with no other weapon but his lance; and slew a Philistine giant, the iron of whose spear weighed 300 shekels. (1 Sam. xxvi., 2 Sam. xxiii.)