Abbott – Abesta
Abbott
EMMA, American dramatic soprano, born in Chicago, Ill., in December, 1849. She sang in opera with great success. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 5, 1891.
Abbott
JACOB, an American writer, born in Hallowell, Me., Nov. 14, 1803.
His works, comprising over 200 titles, chiefly of stories for the young, were widely read in his own day. Among the best known are "The Rollo Books" (28 vols.); "The Franconia Stories" (10 vols.); "The Marco Paul Series" (6 vols.). He died in Farmington, Me., Oct. 31, 1879.
Abdallah
BEN-ABD-EL-MOTTA- LIB, father of Mohammed, born at Mecca, A. D. 545; died 570. The paternity of the Prophet is Abdallah's sole claim to distinction.
Abdominals
an order of malacopterygious fishes, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals, as the trout. They comprehend the greater part of fresh water fishes, and constitute the fourth order of the fourth class of animals in the Linnæan system.
Abduction
the act of abducing or abducting; a taking or drawing away, and specifically an unlawful taking. In law, the forcible and fraudulent taking away of women or girls.
Abductor
a muscle, the office of which is to pull back or draw the member to which it is affixed from some other.
The antagonist is called adductor. In law, a person guilty of abduction.
Abercrombie
SIR RALPH, a British general, born in 1738. He was commander-in-chief in the West Indies, in 1795; in the attempt against Holland, in 1799, and in the expedition to Egypt.
Mortally wounded in the beginning of the battle of Alexandria (March 21, 1801), the general kept the field during the day, and died some days after his victory.
Aberdeen
GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, EARL OF, born in 1784. He took office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1828, in the ministry
Aberdeen
UNIVERSITY OF, an institution for higher education at Aberdeen, Scotland. It includes two colleges, King's and Marischal. The university is coeducational and has about students. The chancellor in 1920 was the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and the vice-chancellor and principal, Sir George Adam Smith.
Abernethy
a town in Perthshire, Scotland, near the junction of the Earn and the Tay. Here the first Culdee monastery was built, and here, it is said, the Pictish kings had their capital. A curious round tower, 73 feet high, still exists, resembling the famous round towers of Ireland. a
Abernethy
JAMES, Scotch ivil engineer, born in Aberdeen in 1815.
As a boy he assisted his father on the extension of the London docks, and afterward designed and built the lock and dock at Aberdeen, the docks at Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, and Hull, and the Cavour canal in Italy. He died in 1896.
Abesta
or AVESTA, the name of one of the sacred books of the Persian magi, which they ascribe to their great founder Zoroaster. The "Abesta" is a commentary on two others of their religious books, called "Zend" and "Pazend"; the three together including the whole system of the Ignicolæ, or worshippers of fire.