aberance.html - n.
1 an animal of a Scottish breed of hornless black beef cattle.
2 this breed. [Aberdeen in Scotland, Angus Scottish county]

aberance.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

of Aberdeen.

--n.

a native or citizen of Aberdeen. [med.L Aberdonia]

aberance.html - adj.
1 esp. Biol. diverging from the normal type.
2 departing from an accepted standard.

aberrance n. aberrancy n. [L aberrare aberrant- (as AB-, errare stray)]

aberance.html - n.
1 a departure from what is normal or accepted or regarded as right.
2 a moral or mental lapse.
3 Biol. deviation from a normal type.
4 Optics the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror.
5 Astron. the apparent displacement of a celestial body, meteor, etc., caused by the observer's velocity. [L aberratio (as ABERRANT)]

aberance.html - adv.
1 on a line at right angles to a ship's or an aircraft's length.
2 (foll. by of) opposite the middle of (a ship etc.). [A(2) + BEAM]

aberance.html - adv.
archaic in bed. [OE (as A(2), BED)]