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a. [ L. ab. + E. oral. ] (Zool.) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aborder, à (L. ad) + bord rim, brim, or side of a vessel. See Border, Board. ] To approach; to accost. [ Obs. ] Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Aborigines. ] 1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. “Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An animal or a plant native to the region. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Primarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ L. Aborigines; ab + origo, especially the first inhabitants of Latium, those who originally (ab origine) inhabited Latium or Italy. See Origin. ] 1. The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The original fauna and flora of a geographical area [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abortment; abortion. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abortive. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. abortare, fr. abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born. See Orient. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to stop, cease, or fail prior to normal completion. [ PJC ]

v. t. to cause (an action or process) to stop at an early stage, or before normal completion; as, to abort a rocket flight. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. abortus, fr. aboriri. ] 1. An untimely birth. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An aborted offspring. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Brought forth prematurely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. stopped prior to normal completion. [ PJC ]

The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abortus + caedere to kill. See Abort. ] (Med.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. [ archaic ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abortus (see Abort, v.) + faciens, p. pr. of facere to make. ] Producing miscarriage. -- n. A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abortio, fr. aboriri. See Abort. ] 1. The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The immature product of an untimely birth; a fetus which has been delivered prematurely due to spontaneous or voluntary abortion, and is dead. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Biol.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. the removal of a fetus from the womb prior to normal delivery in a manner such as to cause the death of the fetus; also called voluntary abortion, or when performed by a physician, therapeutic abortion. [ PJC ]

In the 1913 Webster there was the following note appended to sense 1:
☞ It is sometimes used for the offense of procuring a premature delivery, but strictly the early delivery is the abortion, “causing or procuring abortion” is the full name of the offense. Abbott. [ PJC ]

6. something considered to be a repulsive or monstrous variant of a normal object; a monstrosity. [ PJC ]

a. Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who performs or procures abortion; among medical personnel, also called an abortion provider. The word abortionist has negative connotations from the time when the practise was illegal in the United States, and the latter term is preferred among those who do not consider the procedure as morally reprehensible. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. same as abortionist. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. abortivus, fr. aboriri. See Abort, v. ] 1. Produced by abortion.as, an abortive child. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

2. Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [ Obs. ] “Plunged in that abortive gulf.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. “An abortive enterprise.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Biol.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Med.) (a) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr. AS (b) Cutting short the period of an illness; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. 1. That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fruitless effort or issue. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion; -- also called an abortifacient. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adv. In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being abortive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abortion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fetus which has been aborted; same as abortion{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. opposed to legal voluntary abortion. [ PJC ]

n. a person who is opposed to legal voluntary abortion. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belabored p. pr. & vb. n. Belaboring. ] 1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. “If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat soundly; to cudgel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who labors with another; an associate in labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book. [ PJC ]

2. to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. ] See Collaborator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of working together; united labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.
Syn. -- collaborator, quisling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. collaborare to labor together; col- + laborare to labor: cf. F. collaborateur. ] 1. An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who willingly cooperates with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

n. Labor hired or performed by the day. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ G., fr. Skr. ēka one + G. bor, boron, E. boron. ] (Chem.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor. ] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.

-- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elaborated p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating ] 1. To produce with labor [ 1913 Webster ]

They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration. ] 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, elaborates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to elaborate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A laboratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inelaboratus. See In- not, and Elaborate. ] Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished. [ 1913 Webster ]