the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Abortion.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An untimely birth; an abortion.
Word Usage
"Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death -- that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement."