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- Abbreviation - n. - The act of shortening, or reducing.
- Abbreviation - n. - The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
- Abbreviation - n. - The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
- Abbreviation - n. - One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
- Non pros. - - An abbreviation of Non prosequitur.
- Yank - n. - An abbreviation of Yankee.
- Mrs. - - The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing.
- Red - n. - An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.
- 'Twixt - - An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.
- Kilo - n. - An abbreviation of Kilogram.
- Symbol - n. - An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
- Do. - n. - An abbreviation of Ditto.
- Sforzato - a. - Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.
- Hyp - n. - An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.
- Sis - n. - A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.
- 'Sblood - interj. - An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath.
- Ipecac - n. - An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use.
- Mr. - - The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See Master, 4.
- 'Neath - prep. & adv. - An abbreviation of Beneath.
- Middy - n. - A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
- Signature - v. t. - That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
- Cong - n. - An abbreviation of Congius.
- C. G. S. - - An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
- Blue - superl. - Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
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- H6224 עֲשִׂירִי - 6224 עֲשִׂירִי - עֲשִׂירִי - - ʻăsîyrîy - as-ee-ree' - from עֶשֶׂר; tenth; by abbreviation, tenth month or (feminine) part; tenth (part). - Adjective - heb
- H787 אֹשׁ - 787 אֹשׁ - אֹשׁ - - ʼôsh - ohsh - (Aramaic) corresponding (by transposition and abbreviation) to אֲשׁוּיָה; a foundation; foundation. - Noun Masculine - arc
- H6985 קַט - 6985 קַט - קַט - - qaṭ - kat - from קָטַט in the sense of abbreviation; a little, i.e. (adverbially) merely; very. - Adjective - heb