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But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Little-Finger hath two proper Muscles, viz. an Extensor and an Abductor.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The Eyes have each six Muscles, viz. four Recti and two Obliqui; the Recti or streight Muscles are the Elevator, the Depressor, the Adductor, and the Abductor.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The proper Abductor of the great Toe, or the Antithenar, draws it toward the other Toes.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Abductor: applied to muscles that open out or extend an appendage or draw it away from the body: see adductor.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.