abrazitic

Pertaining to the mineral called abrazite. Not melting or effervescing before the blowpipe. a-brea'd, adv. Abroad. ( Scotch.) "O Jenny, dinna to your head, An' set your beauties a' abread 1" Burns: To a Louse. a-breast', adv. [a=on; breast.] 1. Gen. Standing or moving with the breasts in a line, exactly in line with each other. two men could hardly walk abreast."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. 2. Naut .: Ships are abreast when their bows are in line. "The Bell on a . grounded abreast of the outer ship of the enemy."-Southey: Nelson, vol. ii. Naut.: A ship is abreast of an object when that object is on line with the ve el's beam. A ve el is abreast a promontory when it lies or is sailing off the shore directly off that promontory. On board a ship, abreast means in a parallel line to the beam. *ăb'-rě-cock, s . An apricot. ( Gerard .) ǎb-rē'de, v.t. & i. [A.S. abredian = to open.] * Transitive: To publish, to spread abroad. [A BRAIDE.] ( Scotch .) * Intransitive: To start, to fly to a side, to depart. ( Eng . & Scotch .) "Troilus nere out of his witte abrede." Test. Creseide Chron . S. P. 1. 158. a-brē'ed, a-brē'id, adv. [ABROAD.] Abroad. (Scotch.) "The prophecy got abreed in the country."- Anti quary, 11. 245. "And for he wolde his longe tale abrege ." Chaucer: Cant. Tales, 9,581. they yit wel here days abregge." Chaucer: Knightes Tale , 3,001.