Abb

(n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

整理:奥拉

• It is true that the abbé mentions the idea, but he throws it out as a bare conjecture, and proposes no mode of ascertaining the truth of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Bernoulli, D'Alembert, Euler, Abbé Bossut, Venturi, and Eylewein in the Eighteenth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Abbé Terray raised it afterwards to the old rate of five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Not discouraged, the Abbé then called upon Puillet of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was said that the Abbé Nollet, 1748, had suggested the idea of the similarity of lightning and electricity in his _Le?ons de Physique_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

校对:玛吉