(obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. / The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. / The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.

Someone who is learning the alphabet. / An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.

(now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. / Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. / Arranged in an alphabetical manner.

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. / (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. / (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. / A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.