a weight used in Persia for weighing pearls. It is 1-8th less than the European carat.

the heathen mythology, was the son of Hypothoon and 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.

Abas (Schah) the Great, was third son of Codambend, 7th king of Persia, of the race of the Sophis. Succeeding to his father at 18, in 1585, he found the affairs of Persia at a low ebb, occasioned by the conquests of the Turks and Tartars. He regained several of the provinces they had seized; but death put a stop to his victories in 1629, after a reign of 44 years. He was the greatest prince that had reigned in Persia for many ages; and it was he who made Isphahan the metropolis of Persia: his memory is held in the highest veneration among the Persians.

Abas (Schah) his grandson, 9th king of Persia, of the race of the Sophis, succeeded his father Seti at 13 years of age: he was but 18 when he made himself master of the city Candahar, which had surrendered in his father's reign to the Great Mogul, and all the province about it; and he preserved it afterwards against this Indian emperor, though he besieged it more than once with an army of 300,000 men. He was a very merciful prince, and openly protected the Christians; he had formed a design of extending the limits of his kingdom toward the north, and had for that effect levied a powerful army; but death put a stop to all his great designs, at 37 years of age, in 1666.