Shortened conventional expressions, employed as substitutes for names, phrases, dates, and the like, for the saving of space, of time in transcribing, etc. Abbott, For Table of Abbreviations, see Appendix, post, page 1239. Abbreviationum ille Humerus et sensus accipiendus est, lit concessit) non sit in anis. In abbreviations, such number and sense is to be taken that the grant be not made void. 9 Coke, 48.