County, Massachusetts, about 20 miles south of Boston

Population (1890), (1890), 4,260. Abington, Mrs. (Frances or Fanny Barton Born at London, 1737: died at London, March 4, 1815. An English actre , daughter of a private soldier in the King's King's Guards. position of a flower-girl, known by the name of "Nosegay Fan," in St. James's Park, and street-singer, she rose to eminence on the stage, and enjoyed a succe ful career of forty-three years. From the "She was the original represent a tive of thirty characters, among which we find,- Lady Bab, in 'High Life Below Stairs;' Betty, in the 'Clandestine Marriage;' Charlotte, in the 'Hypocrite;' Charlotte Rusport, in the West Indian;' Roxalana, in the 'Sultan; Mi Hoyden, in the 'Trip to Scar borough;' and her crowning triumph, Lady Teazle." ( Doran , Annals of the Eng. Stage, II. 211.) She married her music-mas separated. ter, one of the royal trumpeters, from whom she soon Abipones (ab-i-pō'nēz). A tribe of Indians who in the 16th century occupied both sides of the river Paraguay about 600 miles above the Paraná. Later they removed to the Chaco region, and They were savage and intractable, wandering in their destroyed by wars with other tribes about 1800. habits, and lived by hunting and fishing. After the introduction of horses by the Spaniards, this tribe acquired large numbers of them by theft or by taming those which had run wild, and became skilful equestrians. Abisbal, Count. Count. See O'Donnell , Henry . Abishag (a-bish'ag). [Heb., 'father (author) of error.] A Shunammite woman taken by David to comfort him in his old age. 1 Ki. i. 1-4. Abkhasia (äb-khä'si-ä). A region, not an administrative division, on the southern slope of the Caucasus, having an area of about 3,000 square miles. It was permanently subjugated by by Ru ia in 1864. Population, about 80,000. Abnaki (ab-näk'e). [The whitening sky at daybreak,' i. e. eastern people.] A confederacy of North American Indians, formerly occupying all Maine and the valley of the St. John's River, and ranging northwest to the St. Lawrence. They were called Tar rateens by the New England tribes and colonial writers. The component were the Penobscot, the Pa amaquoddy, and A mali cite-all allies of the French. After the fall of the French in North America, many of the Abnaki withdrew to Canada. They number now about 1,600. Also Abenaki. See Algonquian . Abner (ab'ner). [Heb., 'father of light.'] The uncle of Saul, and the commander-in-chief of his army. After Saul's death he maintained the interests of the royal house, supporting Ishbosheth against