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A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.
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Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
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A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.
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An abyss.
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A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.
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A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
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A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
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A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.
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A member of the Abyssinian Church.
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A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
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Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
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An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
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The Abyssinian ox (Bos / Bibos, Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.
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Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss.
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A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,
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An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
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A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.
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To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
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Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
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A native of Abyssinia.
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