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ab-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.

  1. I. Lit.: manibus quidquam abradere membris, Lucr. 4, 1103; so id. 4, 1110: supercilia penitus abrasa, Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: barbam in superiore labro, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162.
    Of plants: partes radicum, to grub up, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82; cf. arida, Col. 10, 3: abrasae fauces, made rough, Luc. 6, 115: abrasa corpora, peeled off, ἀποσύρματα, Scrib. Comp. 215.
  2. II. Meton., to take or snatch away, to seize, extort, rob, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 19: nihil a Caecinā litium terrore, Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: aliquid bohis, Plin. Pan. 37, 2.

Ābrăham or Ābram, indecl. or ae, m.,

  1. I. Abraham (eccl. Lat.).
  2. II. Hence derivv.
    1. A. Abrāhămĭdes, ae, m., a descendant of Abraham (eccl. Lat.).
    2. B. Abrāhămēus or Abrāmēus, a, um, adj., belonging to Abraham (eccl. Lat.).

abrāsus, a, um, Part. of abrado.