| Abbreviation |
| The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. |
| Abbreviation |
| 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 |
| One dash, or more, through the stem of a note,
dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or
demi-semiquavers. |
| Abbreviator |
| One who abbreviates or shortens. |
| Abbreviator |
| 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. |
| Abbreviatory |
| Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening;
abridging. |
| Abbreviature |
| An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. |
| Abbreviature |
| An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. |
| Abb wool |
| See Abb. |
| A B C |
| The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole
alphabet. |
