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[A.S.] Fine oatmeal used for thickening pottage. (Markham: Eng. Housewife.) a-a-vör-a, s. A name given to various palm trees. [AVOIRA.] A.B. (See a as an initial, II. 3, 7.) ab. The syllable ab found at the commencement of the names of places, as Abingdon, is po ibly a shortened form of abbey ; though in Stevens on's edition of the Chronic on Monus terii de Abingdon the word is derived from Abbenus, an Irish monk who is said to have founded the monastery and called it after himself, "Mount of Abbenus"= Abingdon. (See Stevens on's Preface, p. xii.) Ab (ab). [ Heb. ( a ). The fifth month according to the ecclesiastical reckoning-the eleventh, by the civil computation of the Jewish year. The name Ab does not occur in the Old Testament or in the Apocrypha. It was not introduced till the Captivity, and was of Babylonian origin. The month Ab may begin in some years as early as the 10th of July, and in others as late as the 7th of August, Ab is also the twelfth month of the Syrian year, nearly coinciding with our August.