ABARTICULATION, in Anatomy, a species of articulation, admitting of a manifest motion; called also Diarthrosis, and Dcarticulation, to distinguish it from that sort of articulation which admits of a very obscure motion, and is called Synarthrosis.
ABAS, a weight used in Persia for weighing pearls. It is equal to 2.25 grains Troy.
ABAS, in heathen mythology, the son of Meganira, who entertained Ceres, and offered a sacrifice to that goddess; but Abas ridiculing the ceremony, and giving her opprobrious language, she sprinkled him with a certain mixture she held in her cup, on which he became a newt or water lizard.