1) a b c,"the first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.-a primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.-the simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the a b c of finance."

2) abacist,one who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

3) abactor,one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

4) abandon,"to cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.-to give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.-reflexively: to give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.-to relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.-abandonment; relinquishment.-a complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease."

5) abandonee,one to whom anything is legally abandoned.

6) abandoner,one who abandons.

7) abandonment,"the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.-the relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.-the relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.-the voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.-careless freedom or ease; abandon."

8) abaser,"he who, or that which, abases."

9) abater,"one who, or that which, abates."

10) abator,"one who abates a nuisance.-a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee."

11) abattis,"a means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy."

12) abbot,the superior or head of an abbey.-one of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

13) abbreviator,"one who abbreviates or shortens.-one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form."

14) abdicant,abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.-one who abdicates.

15) abdicator,one who abdicates.