2 entries under this word

Ablen

Ab'len or Ab'let, n.

noun

[Fr. ablette, able, from Lat. albus, white, with transposition of the letters l and b. In Latin this fish is called alburnus, also from albus, white.] A small fresh-water fish; the bleak; Leuciscus alburnus.

Ā'blet, a.

adjective

a., comp. of able.