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A Dictionary A - The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.
A- Dictionary A - A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. -1 It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. -2 AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). -3 AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. -4 Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. -5 French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. -6 L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. -7 Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.
A 1 Dictionary A - A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3.
Aam Dictionary A - noun A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4.
Aard-vark Dictionary A - noun An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
Aard-wolf Dictionary A - noun A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.
Aaronic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aaronical.
Aaronical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.
Aaron's rod Dictionary A - A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.
Ab- Dictionary A - A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6).
Ab Dictionary A - noun The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.
Abaca Dictionary A - noun The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.
Abacinate Dictionary A - verb transitive To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.
Abacination Dictionary A - noun The act of abacinating.
Abaciscus Dictionary A - noun One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.
Abacist Dictionary A - noun One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
Aback Dictionary A - adverb Toward the back or rear; backward.
Abactinal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal.
Abaction Dictionary A - noun Stealing cattle on a large scale.
Abactor Dictionary A - noun One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Abaculi Dictionary A - pleural of Abaculus.
Abaculus Dictionary A - noun A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.
Abacuses Dictionary A - pleural of Abacus.
Abaci Dictionary A - pleural of Abacus.
Abacus Dictionary A - noun A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
Abada Dictionary A - noun The rhinoceros.
Abaddon Dictionary A - noun The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
Abaft Dictionary A - preposition Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
Abaisance Dictionary A - noun Obeisance.
Abaiser Dictionary A - noun Ivory black or animal charcoal.
Abaist Dictionary A - past participle Abashed; confounded; discomfited.
Abalienate Dictionary A - verb transitive To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Abalienation Dictionary A - noun The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Abalone Dictionary A - noun A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
Aband Dictionary A - verb transitive To abandon.
Abandoned Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abandon.
Abandoning Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abandon.
Abandon Dictionary A - verb transitive To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Abandonedly Dictionary A - adverb Unrestrainedly.
Abandonee Dictionary A - noun One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
Abandoner Dictionary A - noun One who abandons.
Abandonment Dictionary A - noun The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
Abandum Dictionary A - noun Anything forfeited or confiscated.
Abanet Dictionary A - noun See Abnet.
Abanga Dictionary A - noun A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.
Abannation Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abannition.
Abannition Dictionary A - noun Banishment.
Abarticulation Dictionary A - noun Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.
Abased Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abase.
Abasing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abase.
Abase Dictionary A - adjective To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
Abasedly Dictionary A - adverb Abjectly; downcastly.
Abasement Dictionary A - noun The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
Abaser Dictionary A - noun He who, or that which, abases.
Abashed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abash.
Abashing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abash.
Abash Dictionary A - verb transitive To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
Abashedly Dictionary A - adverb In an abashed manner.
Abashment Dictionary A - noun The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
Abassi Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abassis.
Abassis Dictionary A - noun A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.
Abatable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.
Abated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abate.
Abating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abate.
Abate Dictionary A - verb transitive To beat down; to overthrow.
Abatement Dictionary A - noun The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Abater Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, abates.
Abatis Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abattis.
Abattis Dictionary A - noun A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.
Abatised Dictionary A - adjective Provided with an abatis.
Abator Dictionary A - noun One who abates a nuisance.
Abattoirs Dictionary A - pleural of Abattoir.
Abattoir Dictionary A - noun A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Abature Dictionary A - noun Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
Abatvoix Dictionary A - noun The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
Abawed Dictionary A - past participle Astonished; abashed.
Abaxial Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Abaxile.
Abaxile Dictionary A - adjective Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.
Abay Dictionary A - noun Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay.
Abb Dictionary A - noun Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.
Abba Dictionary A - noun Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.
Abbacies Dictionary A - pleural of Abbacy.
Abbacy Dictionary A - noun The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
Abbatial Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.
Abbatical Dictionary A - adjective Abbatial.
Abbe Dictionary A - noun The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
Abbess Dictionary A - noun A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.
Abbeys Dictionary A - pleural of Abbey.
Abbey Dictionary A - noun A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.
Abbot Dictionary A - noun The superior or head of an abbey.
Abbotship Dictionary A - noun The state or office of an abbot.
Abbreviated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abbreviate.
Abbreviating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abbreviate.
Abbreviate Dictionary A - verb transitive To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
Abbreviation Dictionary A - noun The act of shortening, or reducing.
Abbreviator Dictionary A - noun One who abbreviates or shortens.
Abbreviatory Dictionary A - adjective Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Abbreviature Dictionary A - noun An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
Abb wool Dictionary A - See Abb.
A B C Dictionary A - The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.
Abdal Dictionary A - noun A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
Abderian Dictionary A - adjective Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
Abderite Dictionary A - noun An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.
Abdest Dictionary A - noun Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
Abdicable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being abdicated.
Abdicant Dictionary A - adjective Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
Abdicated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abdicate.
Abdicating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abdicate.
Abdicate Dictionary A - verb transitive To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Abdication Dictionary A - noun The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
Abdicative Dictionary A - adjective Causing, or implying, abdication.
Abdicator Dictionary A - noun One who abdicates.
Abditive Dictionary A - adjective Having the quality of hiding.
Abditory Dictionary A - noun A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.
Abdomen Dictionary A - noun The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
Abdominal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.
Abdominals Dictionary A - pleural of Abdominal.
Abdominales Dictionary A - pleural of Abdominal.
Abdominalia Dictionary A - noun plural A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.
Abdominoscopy Dictionary A - noun Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.
Abdominothoracic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
Abdominous Dictionary A - adjective Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.
Abduced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abduce.
Abducing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abduce.
Abduce Dictionary A - verb transitive To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
Abducted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abduct.
Abducting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abduct.
Abduct Dictionary A - verb transitive To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
Abduction Dictionary A - noun The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
Abductor Dictionary A - noun One who abducts.
Abeam Dictionary A - adverb On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.
Abear Dictionary A - verb transitive To bear; to behave.
Abearance Dictionary A - noun Behavior.
Abearing Dictionary A - noun Behavior.
Abecedarian Dictionary A - noun One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
Abecedary Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
Abed Dictionary A - adverb In bed, or on the bed.
Abegge Dictionary A - Same as Aby.
Abele Dictionary A - noun The white poplar (Populus alba).
Abelian Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abelonian.
Abelite Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abelonian.
Abelonian Dictionary A - noun One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
Abelmosk Dictionary A - noun An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.
Aber-de-vine Dictionary A - noun The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.
Aberr Dictionary A - intransitive verb To wander; to stray.
Aberrance Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Aberrancy.
Aberrancy Dictionary A - noun State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
Aberrant Dictionary A - adjective Wandering; straying from the right way.
Aberrate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To go astray; to diverge.
Aberration Dictionary A - noun The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
Aberrational Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by aberration.
Aberuncate Dictionary A - verb transitive To weed out.
Aberuncator Dictionary A - noun A weeding machine.
Abetted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abet.
Abetting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abet.
Abet Dictionary A - verb transitive To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
Abetment Dictionary A - noun The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.
Abettal Dictionary A - noun Abetment.
Abetter Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abettor.
Abettor Dictionary A - noun One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.
Abevacuation Dictionary A - noun A partial evacuation.
Abeyance Dictionary A - noun Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Abeyancy Dictionary A - noun Abeyance.
Abeyant Dictionary A - adjective Being in a state of abeyance.
Abhal Dictionary A - noun The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.
Abhominable Dictionary A - adjective Abominable.
Abhominal Dictionary A - adjective Inhuman.
Abhorred Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abhor.
Abhorring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abhor.
Abhor Dictionary A - verb transitive To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Abhorrence Dictionary A - noun Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
Abhorrency Dictionary A - noun Abhorrence.
Abhorrent Dictionary A - adjective Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
Abhorrently Dictionary A - adverb With abhorrence.
Abhorrer Dictionary A - noun One who abhors.
Abhorrible Dictionary A - adjective Detestable.
Abib Dictionary A - noun The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
Abidance Dictionary A - noun The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
Abode Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abide.
Abid Dictionary A - of Abide.
Abiding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abide.
Abide Dictionary A - intransitive verb To wait; to pause; to delay.
Abider Dictionary A - noun One who abides, or continues.
Abidingly Dictionary A - adverb Permanently.
Abies Dictionary A - noun A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.
Abietene Dictionary A - noun A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.
Abietic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid.
Abietin Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abietine.
Abietine Dictionary A - noun A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.
Abietinic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.
Abietite Dictionary A - noun A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).
Abigail Dictionary A - noun A lady's waiting-maid.
Abiliment Dictionary A - noun Habiliment.
Abilities Dictionary A - pleural of Ability.
Ability Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
Abime Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abyme.
Abyme Dictionary A - noun A abyss.
Abiogenesis Dictionary A - noun The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
Abiogenetic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
Abiogenist Dictionary A - noun One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.
Abiogenous Dictionary A - adjective Produced by spontaneous generation.
Abiogeny Dictionary A - noun Same as Abiogenesis.
Abiological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
Abirritant Dictionary A - noun A medicine that diminishes irritation.
Abirritate Dictionary A - verb transitive To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
Abirritation Dictionary A - noun A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
Abirritative Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by abirritation or debility.
Abit Dictionary A - 3d sing. pres. of Abide.
Abject Dictionary A - adjective Cast down; low-lying.
Abjectedness Dictionary A - noun A very abject or low condition; abjectness.
Abjection Dictionary A - noun The act of bringing down or humbling.
Abjectly Dictionary A - adverb Meanly; servilely.
Abjectness Dictionary A - noun The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Abjudge Dictionary A - verb transitive To take away by judicial decision.
Abjudicate Dictionary A - verb transitive To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
Abjudication Dictionary A - noun Rejection by judicial sentence.
Abjugate Dictionary A - verb transitive To unyoke.
Abjunctive Dictionary A - adjective Exceptional.
Abjuration Dictionary A - noun The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
Abjuratory Dictionary A - adjective Containing abjuration.
Abjured Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abjure.
Abjuring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abjure.
Abjure Dictionary A - verb transitive To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
Abjurement Dictionary A - noun Renunciation.
Abjurer Dictionary A - noun One who abjures.
Ablactate Dictionary A - verb transitive To wean.
Ablactation Dictionary A - noun The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
Ablaqueate Dictionary A - verb transitive To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
Ablaqueation Dictionary A - noun The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Ablastemic Dictionary A - adjective Non-germinal.
Ablation Dictionary A - noun A carrying or taking away; removal.
Ablatitious Dictionary A - adjective Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.
Ablative Dictionary A - adjective Taking away or removing.
Ablaut Dictionary A - noun The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
Ablaze Dictionary A - adverb & adjective On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
Able Dictionary A - superlative Fit; adapted; suitable.
-able Dictionary A - An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.
Able-bodied Dictionary A - adjective Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Ablegate Dictionary A - verb transitive To send abroad.
Ablegation Dictionary A - noun The act of sending abroad.
Able-minded Dictionary A - adjective Having much intellectual power.
Ableness Dictionary A - noun Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
Ablepsy Dictionary A - noun Blindness.
Abler Dictionary A - adjective comp. of Able.
Ablet Dictionary A - Alt. of Ablen.
Ablen Dictionary A - A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Abligate Dictionary A - verb transitive To tie up so as to hinder from.
Abligurition Dictionary A - noun Prodigal expense for food.
Ablins Dictionary A - adverb Perhaps.
Abloom Dictionary A - adverb In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
Ablude Dictionary A - verb transitive To be unlike; to differ.
Abluent Dictionary A - adjective Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Ablush Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Blushing; ruddy.
Ablution Dictionary A - noun The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Ablutionary Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to ablution.
Abluvion Dictionary A - noun That which is washed off.
Ably Dictionary A - adverb In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.
-ably Dictionary A - A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
Abnegated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abnegate.
Abnegating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abnegate.
Abnegate Dictionary A - verb transitive To deny and reject; to abjure.
Abnegation Dictionary A - noun a denial; a renunciation.
Abnegative Dictionary A - adjective Denying; renouncing; negative.
Abnegator Dictionary A - noun One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.
Abnet Dictionary A - noun The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
Abnodate Dictionary A - verb transitive To clear (tress) from knots.
Abnodation Dictionary A - noun The act of cutting away the knots of trees.
Abnormal Dictionary A - adjective Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Abnormalities Dictionary A - pleural of Abnormality.
Abnormality Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
Abnormally Dictionary A - adverb In an abnormal manner; irregularly.
Abnormities Dictionary A - pleural of Abnormity.
Abnormity Dictionary A - noun Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity.
Abnormous Dictionary A - adjective Abnormal; irregular.
Aboard Dictionary A - adverb On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
Abodance Dictionary A - noun An omen; a portending.
Abodement Dictionary A - noun A foreboding; an omen.
Aboding Dictionary A - noun A foreboding.
Abolished Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abolish.
Abolishing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abolish.
Abolish Dictionary A - verb transitive To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
Abolishable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being abolished.
Abolisher Dictionary A - noun One who abolishes.
Abolishment Dictionary A - noun The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
Abolition Dictionary A - noun The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.
Abolitionism Dictionary A - noun The principles or measures of abolitionists.
Abolitionist Dictionary A - noun A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
Abolitionize Dictionary A - verb transitive To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.
Aboma Dictionary A - noun A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).
Abomasum Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abomasus.
Abomasus Dictionary A - noun The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.
Abominable Dictionary A - adjective Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Abominableness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness.
Abominably Dictionary A - adverb In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
Abominated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abominate.
Abominating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abominate.
Abominate Dictionary A - verb transitive To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.
Abomination Dictionary A - noun The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
Aboon Dictionary A - preposition and adv. Above.
Aboral Dictionary A - adjective Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
Abord Dictionary A - noun Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
Aboriginal Dictionary A - adjective First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.
Aboriginality Dictionary A - noun The quality of being aboriginal.
Aboriginally Dictionary A - adverb Primarily.
Aborigines Dictionary A - noun plural The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.
Aborsement Dictionary A - noun Abortment; abortion.
Aborsive Dictionary A - adjective Abortive.
Abort Dictionary A - intransitive verb To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
Aborted Dictionary A - adjective Brought forth prematurely.
Aborticide Dictionary A - noun The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
Abortifacient Dictionary A - verb Producing miscarriage.
Abortion Dictionary A - noun The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
Abortional Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.
Abortionist Dictionary A - noun One who procures abortion or miscarriage.
Abortive Dictionary A - verb Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
Abortively Dictionary A - adverb In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
Abortiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abortive.
Abortment Dictionary A - noun Abortion.
Abought Dictionary A - imp. & p. p. of Aby.
Abounded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abound.
Abounding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abound.
Abound Dictionary A - intransitive verb To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
About Dictionary A - preposition Around; all round; on every side of.
About-sledge Dictionary A - noun The largest hammer used by smiths.
Above Dictionary A - preposition In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.
Aboveboard Dictionary A - adverb Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
Above-cited Dictionary A - adjective Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
Abovedeck Dictionary A - adjective On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice.
Above-mentioned Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Above-named.
Above-named Dictionary A - adjective Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
Abovesaid Dictionary A - adjective Mentioned or recited before.
Abox Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Braced aback.
Abracadabra Dictionary A - noun A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.
Abradant Dictionary A - noun A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.
Abraded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abrade.
Abrading Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abrade.
Abrade Dictionary A - verb transitive To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks.
Abrahamic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
Abrahamitic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of ical.
ical Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
Abraham-man Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abram-man.
Abram-man Dictionary A - noun One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms.
Abraid Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.
Abranchial Dictionary A - adjective Abranchiate.
Abranchiata Dictionary A - noun plural A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.
Abranchiate Dictionary A - adjective Without gills.
Abrase Dictionary A - adjective Rubbed smooth.
Abrasion Dictionary A - noun The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
Abrasive Dictionary A - adjective Producing abrasion.
Abraum Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Abraum salts.
Abraum salts Dictionary A - noun A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
Abraxas Dictionary A - noun A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.
Abray Dictionary A - verb See Abraid.
Abreast Dictionary A - adverb Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast.".
Abregge Dictionary A - verb transitive See Abridge.
Abrenounce Dictionary A - verb transitive To renounce.
Abrenunciation Dictionary A - noun Absolute renunciation or repudiation.
Abreption Dictionary A - noun A snatching away.
Abreuvoir Dictionary A - noun The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
Abricock Dictionary A - noun See Apricot.
Abridged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abridge.
Abridging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abridge.
Abridge Dictionary A - verb transitive To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
Abridger Dictionary A - noun One who abridges.
Abridgment Dictionary A - noun The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
Abroach Dictionary A - verb transitive To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
Abroad Dictionary A - adverb At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
Abrogable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being abrogated.
Abrogate Dictionary A - adjective Abrogated; abolished.
Abrogated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abrogate.
Abrogating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abrogate.
Abrogation Dictionary A - noun The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.
Abrogative Dictionary A - adjective Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.
Abrogator Dictionary A - noun One who repeals by authority.
Abrood Dictionary A - adverb In the act of brooding.
Abrook Dictionary A - verb transitive To brook; to endure.
Abrupt Dictionary A - adjective Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
Abruption Dictionary A - noun A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
Abruptly Dictionary A - adverb In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.
Abruptness Dictionary A - noun The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
Abscesses Dictionary A - pleural of Abscess.
Abscess Dictionary A - noun A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.
Abscession Dictionary A - noun A separating; removal; also, an abscess.
Abscind Dictionary A - verb transitive To cut off.
Abscision Dictionary A - noun See Abscission.
Abscisses Dictionary A - pleural of Absciss.
Absciss Dictionary A - noun See Abscissa.
Abscissas Dictionary A - pleural of Abscissa.
Abscissae Dictionary A - pleural of Abscissa.
Abscissa Dictionary A - noun One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes.
Abscission Dictionary A - noun The act or process of cutting off.
Absconded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abscond.
Absconding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abscond.
Abscond Dictionary A - intransitive verb To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
Abscondence Dictionary A - noun Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
Absconder Dictionary A - noun One who absconds.
Absence Dictionary A - noun A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
Absent Dictionary A - adjective Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
Absented Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Absent.
Absenting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Absent.
Absentaneous Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to absence.
Absentation Dictionary A - noun The act of absenting one's self.
Absentee Dictionary A - noun One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.
Absenteeism Dictionary A - noun The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
Absenter Dictionary A - noun One who absents one's self.
Absently Dictionary A - adverb In an absent or abstracted manner.
Absentment Dictionary A - noun The state of being absent; withdrawal.
Absent-minded Dictionary A - adjective Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
Absentness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being absent-minded.
Absey-book Dictionary A - noun An A-B-C book; a primer.
Absinthate Dictionary A - noun A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
Absinth Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Absinthe.
Absinthe Dictionary A - noun The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
Absinthial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.
Absinthian Dictionary A - noun Of the nature of wormwood.
Absinthiate Dictionary A - verb transitive To impregnate with wormwood.
Absinthiated Dictionary A - adjective Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.
Absinthic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
Absinthin Dictionary A - noun The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).
Absinthism Dictionary A - noun The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.
Absinthium Dictionary A - noun The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.
Absis Dictionary A - noun See Apsis.
Absist Dictionary A - intransitive verb To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.
Absistence Dictionary A - noun A standing aloof.
Absolute Dictionary A - adjective Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
Absolutely Dictionary A - adverb In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.
Absoluteness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
Absolution Dictionary A - noun An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
Absolutism Dictionary A - noun The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
Absolutist Dictionary A - noun One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
Absolutistic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.
Absolutory Dictionary A - adjective Serving to absolve; absolving.
Absolvable Dictionary A - adjective That may be absolved.
Absolvatory Dictionary A - adjective Conferring absolution; absolutory.
Absolved Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Absolve.
Absolving Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Absolve.
Absolve Dictionary A - verb transitive To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
Absolvent Dictionary A - adjective Absolving.
Absolver Dictionary A - noun One who absolves.
Absonant Dictionary A - adjective Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
Absonous Dictionary A - adjective Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
Absorbed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Absorb.
Absorbing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Absorb.
Absorb Dictionary A - verb transitive To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
Absorbability Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being absorbable.
Absorbable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
Absorbedly Dictionary A - adverb In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
Absorbency Dictionary A - noun Absorptiveness.
Absorbent Dictionary A - adjective Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Absorber Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, absorbs.
Absorbition Dictionary A - noun Absorption.
Absorpt Dictionary A - adjective Absorbed.
Absorption Dictionary A - noun The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
Absorptive Dictionary A - adjective Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.
Absorptiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
Absorptivity Dictionary A - noun Absorptiveness.
Absquatulate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To take one's self off; to decamp.
Absque hoc Dictionary A - The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.
Abstained Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abstain.
Abstaining Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abstain.
Abstain Dictionary A - intransitive verb To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.
Abstainer Dictionary A - noun One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Abstemious Dictionary A - adjective Abstaining from wine.
Abstemiousness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
Abstention Dictionary A - adjective The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
Abstentious Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
Absterge Dictionary A - verb transitive To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
Abstergent Dictionary A - adjective Serving to cleanse, detergent.
Absterse Dictionary A - verb transitive To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Abstersion Dictionary A - noun Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
Abstersive Dictionary A - adjective Cleansing; purging.
Abstersiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abstersive.
Abstinence Dictionary A - noun The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
Abstinency Dictionary A - noun Abstinence.
Abstinent Dictionary A - adjective Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
Abstinently Dictionary A - adverb With abstinence.
Abstorted Dictionary A - adjective Wrested away.
Abstract Dictionary A - adjective Withdraw; separate.
Abstracted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abstract.
Abstracting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abstract.
Abstractedly Dictionary A - adverb In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Abstractedness Dictionary A - noun The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
Abstracter Dictionary A - noun One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
Abstraction Dictionary A - adjective The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Abstractional Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to abstraction.
Abstractionist Dictionary A - noun An idealist.
Abstractitious Dictionary A - adjective Obtained from plants by distillation.
Abstractive Dictionary A - adjective Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
Abstractively Dictionary A - adverb In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
Abstractiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
Abstractly Dictionary A - adverb In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
Abstractness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abstract.
Abstringe Dictionary A - verb transitive To unbind.
Abstrude Dictionary A - verb transitive To thrust away.
Abstruse Dictionary A - adjective Concealed or hidden out of the way.
Abstrusely Dictionary A - adverb In an abstruse manner.
Abstruseness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
Abstrusion Dictionary A - noun The act of thrusting away.
Abstrusity Dictionary A - noun Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
Absume Dictionary A - verb transitive To consume gradually; to waste away.
Absumption Dictionary A - noun Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
Absurd Dictionary A - adjective Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
Absurdities Dictionary A - pleural of Absurdity.
Absurdity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
Absurdly Dictionary A - adverb In an absurd manner.
Absurdness Dictionary A - noun Absurdity.
Abuna Dictionary A - noun The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
Abundance Dictionary A - noun An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
Abundant Dictionary A - adjective Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.
Abundantly Dictionary A - adverb In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
Aburst Dictionary A - adverb In a bursting condition.
Abusable Dictionary A - adjective That may be abused.
Abusage Dictionary A - noun Abuse.
Abused Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abuse.
Abusing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abuse.
Abuse Dictionary A - verb transitive To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.
Abuseful Dictionary A - adjective Full of abuse; abusive.
Abuser Dictionary A - noun One who abuses in the various senses of the verb.
Abusion Dictionary A - verb transitive Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
Abusive Dictionary A - adjective Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Abusively Dictionary A - adverb In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
Abusiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
Abutted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Abut.
Abutting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Abut.
Abut Dictionary A - intransitive verb To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Abutilon Dictionary A - noun A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
Abutment Dictionary A - noun State of abutting.
Abuttal Dictionary A - noun The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.
Abutter Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
Abuzz Dictionary A - adjective In a buzz; buzzing.
Aby Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive Alt. of Abye.
Abye Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
Abysm Dictionary A - noun An abyss; a gulf.
Abysmal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
Abysmally Dictionary A - adverb To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
Abyss Dictionary A - noun A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
Abyssal Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
Abyssinian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
Acacia Dictionary A - noun A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
Acacias Dictionary A - pleural of Acacia.
Acaciae Dictionary A - pleural of Acacia.
Acacin Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acacine.
Acacine Dictionary A - noun Gum arabic.
Academe Dictionary A - noun An academy.
Academial Dictionary A - adjective Academic.
Academian Dictionary A - noun A member of an academy, university, or college.
Academic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Academical.
Academical Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Academically Dictionary A - adverb In an academical manner.
Academicals Dictionary A - noun plural The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Academician Dictionary A - noun A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
Academicism Dictionary A - noun A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
Academism Dictionary A - noun The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.
Academist Dictionary A - noun An Academic philosopher.
Academies Dictionary A - pleural of Academy.
Academy Dictionary A - noun A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
Acadian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
Acajou Dictionary A - noun The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.
Acalephs Dictionary A - pleural of Acalephan.
Acalephans Dictionary A - pleural of Acalephan.
Acaleph Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acalephan.
Acalephan Dictionary A - noun One of the Acalephae.
Acalephae Dictionary A - noun plural A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.
Acalephoid Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.
Acalycine Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acalysinous.
Acalysinous Dictionary A - adjective Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.
Acanth Dictionary A - noun Same as Acanthus.
Acantha Dictionary A - noun A prickle.
Acanthaceous Dictionary A - adjective Armed with prickles, as a plant.
Acanthine Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.
Acanthocarpous Dictionary A - adjective Having the fruit covered with spines.
Acanthocephala Dictionary A - noun plural A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.
Acanthocephalous Dictionary A - adjective Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
Acanthophorous Dictionary A - adjective Spine-bearing.
Acanthopodious Dictionary A - adjective Having spinous petioles.
Acanthopteri Dictionary A - noun plural A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
Acanthopterous Dictionary A - adjective Spiny-winged.
Acanthopterygian Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.
Acanthopterygii Dictionary A - noun plural An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
Acanthopterygious Dictionary A - adjective Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.
Acanthuses Dictionary A - pleural of Acanthus.
Acanthi Dictionary A - pleural of Acanthus.
Acanthus Dictionary A - noun A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
A cappella Dictionary A - In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.
Acapsular Dictionary A - adjective Having no capsule.
Acardiac Dictionary A - adjective Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.
Acaridan Dictionary A - noun One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.
Acarina Dictionary A - noun plural The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.
Acarine Dictionary A - adjective Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.
Acaroid Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like or resembling a mite.
Acarpellous Dictionary A - adjective Having no carpels.
Acarpous Dictionary A - adjective Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
Acari Dictionary A - pleural of Acarus.
Acarus Dictionary A - noun A genus including many species of small mites.
Acatalectic Dictionary A - adjective Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse.
Acatalepsy Dictionary A - noun Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
Acataleptic Dictionary A - adjective Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.
Acater Dictionary A - noun See Caterer.
Acates Dictionary A - noun plural See Cates.
Acaudate Dictionary A - adjective Tailless.
Acaulescent Dictionary A - adjective Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.
Acauline Dictionary A - adjective Same as Acaulescent.
Acaulose Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acaulous.
Acaulous Dictionary A - adjective Same as Acaulescent.
Accadian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
Acceded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accede.
Acceding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accede.
Accede Dictionary A - intransitive verb To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
Accedence Dictionary A - noun The act of acceding.
Acceder Dictionary A - noun One who accedes.
Accelerando Dictionary A - adjective Gradually accelerating the movement.
Accelerated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accelerate.
Accelerating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accelerate.
Accelerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Acceleration Dictionary A - noun The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.
Accelerative Dictionary A - adjective Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
Accelerator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
Acceleratory Dictionary A - adjective Accelerative.
Accelerograph Dictionary A - noun An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
Accelerometer Dictionary A - noun An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.
Accend Dictionary A - verb transitive To set on fire; to kindle.
Accendibility Dictionary A - noun Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
Accendible Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.
Accension Dictionary A - noun The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
Accensor Dictionary A - noun One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
Accent Dictionary A - noun A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
Accented Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accent.
Accenting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accent.
Accentless Dictionary A - adjective Without accent.
Accentor Dictionary A - noun One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
Accentuable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being accented.
Accentual Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
Accentuality Dictionary A - noun The quality of being accentual.
Accentually Dictionary A - adverb In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
Accentuated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accentuate.
Accentuating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accentuate.
Accentuate Dictionary A - verb transitive To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
Accentuation Dictionary A - noun Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
Accepted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accept.
Accepting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accept.
Accept Dictionary A - verb transitive To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
Acceptability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
Acceptable Dictionary A - adjective Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
Acceptableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
Acceptably Dictionary A - adverb In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.
Acceptance Dictionary A - noun The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
Acceptancy Dictionary A - noun Acceptance.
Acceptant Dictionary A - adjective Accepting; receiving.
Acceptation Dictionary A - noun Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
Acceptedly Dictionary A - adverb In a accepted manner; admittedly.
Accepter Dictionary A - noun A person who accepts; a taker.
Acceptilation Dictionary A - noun Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
Acception Dictionary A - noun Acceptation; the received meaning.
Acceptive Dictionary A - adjective Fit for acceptance.
Acceptor Dictionary A - noun One who accepts.
Access Dictionary A - noun A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
Accessarily Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of an accessary.
Accessariness Dictionary A - noun The state of being accessary.
Accessary Dictionary A - adjective Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.
Accessaries Dictionary A - pleural of Accessary.
Accessibility Dictionary A - noun The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.
Accessible Dictionary A - adjective Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.
Accessibly Dictionary A - adverb In an accessible manner.
Accession Dictionary A - noun A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
Accessional Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to accession; additional.
Accessive Dictionary A - adjective Additional.
Accessorial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.
Accessorily Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
Accessoriness Dictionary A - noun The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
Accessory Dictionary A - adjective Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
Accessories Dictionary A - pleural of Accessory.
Acciaccatura Dictionary A - noun A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.
Accidence Dictionary A - noun The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
Accident Dictionary A - noun Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
Accidental Dictionary A - adjective Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
Accidentalism Dictionary A - noun Accidental character or effect.
Accidentality Dictionary A - noun The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.
Accidentally Dictionary A - adverb In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
Accidentalness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being accidental; casualness.
Accidie Dictionary A - noun Sloth; torpor.
Accipenser Dictionary A - noun See Acipenser.
Accipient Dictionary A - noun A receiver.
Accipiters Dictionary A - pleural of Accipiter.
Accipitres Dictionary A - pleural of Accipiter.
Accipiter Dictionary A - noun A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
Accipitral Dictionary A - noun Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.
Accipitrine Dictionary A - adjective Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
Accismus Dictionary A - noun Affected refusal; coyness.
Accite Dictionary A - verb transitive To cite; to summon.
Acclaim Dictionary A - verb transitive To applaud.
Acclaimer Dictionary A - noun One who acclaims.
Acclamation Dictionary A - noun A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
Acclamatory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.
Acclimatable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being acclimated.
Acclimatation Dictionary A - noun Acclimatization.
Acclimated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acclimate.
Acclimating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acclimate.
Acclimate Dictionary A - verb transitive To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
Acclimatement Dictionary A - noun Acclimation.
Acclimation Dictionary A - noun The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
Acclimatizable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being acclimatized.
Acclimatization Dictionary A - noun The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
Acclimatized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acclimatize.
Acclimatizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acclimatize.
Acclimatize Dictionary A - verb transitive To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
Acclimature Dictionary A - noun The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.
Acclive Dictionary A - adjective Acclivous.
Acclivitous Dictionary A - adjective Acclivous.
Acclivities Dictionary A - pleural of Acclivity.
Acclivity Dictionary A - noun A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
Acclivous Dictionary A - adjective Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.
Accloy Dictionary A - verb transitive To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.
Accoast Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.
Accoil Dictionary A - verb transitive To gather together; to collect.
Accolade Dictionary A - noun A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
Accombination Dictionary A - noun A combining together.
Accommodable Dictionary A - adjective That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.
Accommodableness Dictionary A - noun The quality or condition of being accommodable.
Accommodated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accommodate.
Accommodating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accommodate.
Accommodate Dictionary A - verb transitive To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
Accommodately Dictionary A - adverb Suitably; fitly.
Accommodateness Dictionary A - noun Fitness.
Accommodation Dictionary A - noun The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
Accommodator Dictionary A - noun He who, or that which, accommodates.
Accompanable Dictionary A - adjective Sociable.
Accompanier Dictionary A - noun He who, or that which, accompanies.
Accompaniment Dictionary A - noun That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
Accompanist Dictionary A - noun The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Accompanied Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accompany.
Accompanying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accompany.
Accompany Dictionary A - verb transitive To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.
Accompletive Dictionary A - adjective Tending to accomplish.
Accomplice Dictionary A - noun A cooperator.
Accompliceship Dictionary A - noun The state of being an accomplice.
Accomplicity Dictionary A - noun The act or state of being an accomplice.
Accomplished Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accomplish.
Accomplishing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accomplish.
Accomplish Dictionary A - verb transitive To complete, as time or distance.
Accomplishable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
Accomplisher Dictionary A - noun One who accomplishes.
Accomplishment Dictionary A - noun The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
Accompt Dictionary A - noun See Account.
Accomptable Dictionary A - adjective See Accountable.
Accomptant Dictionary A - noun See Accountant.
Accord Dictionary A - verb transitive Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
Accorded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accord.
According Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accord.
Accordable Dictionary A - adjective Agreeing.
Accordance Dictionary A - noun Agreement; harmony; conformity.
Accordancy Dictionary A - noun Accordance.
Accordant Dictionary A - adjective Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.
Accordantly Dictionary A - adverb In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
Accorder Dictionary A - noun One who accords, assents, or concedes.
Accordingly Dictionary A - adverb Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.
Accordion Dictionary A - noun A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
Accordionist Dictionary A - noun A player on the accordion.
Accordment Dictionary A - verb Agreement; reconcilement.
Accorporate Dictionary A - verb transitive To unite; to attach; to incorporate.
Accosted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accost.
Accosting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accost.
Accost Dictionary A - verb transitive To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
Accostable Dictionary A - adjective Approachable; affable.
Accouchement Dictionary A - noun Delivery in childbed.
Accoucheur Dictionary A - noun A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
Accoucheuse Dictionary A - noun A midwife.
Account Dictionary A - noun A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Accounted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Account.
Accounting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Account.
Accountability Dictionary A - noun The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
Accountable Dictionary A - adjective Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
Accountable ness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
Accountably Dictionary A - adverb In an accountable manner.
Accountancy Dictionary A - noun The art or employment of an accountant.
Accountant Dictionary A - noun One who renders account; one accountable.
Accountantship Dictionary A - noun The office or employment of an accountant.
Account book Dictionary A - A book in which accounts are kept.
Accouple Dictionary A - verb transitive To join; to couple.
Accouplement Dictionary A - noun The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
Accourage Dictionary A - verb transitive To encourage.
Accourt Dictionary A - verb transitive To treat courteously; to court.
Accoutered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accoutre.
Accoutred Dictionary A - of Accoutre.
Accoutering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accoutre.
Accoutring Dictionary A - of Accoutre.
Accouter Dictionary A - verb transitive Alt. of Accoutre.
Accoutre Dictionary A - verb transitive To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
Accouterments Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Accoutrements.
Accoutrements Dictionary A - noun plural Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
Accoy Dictionary A - verb transitive To render quiet; to soothe.
Accredited Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accredit.
Accrediting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accredit.
Accredit Dictionary A - verb transitive To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
Accreditation Dictionary A - noun The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
Accrementitial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to accremention.
Accrementition Dictionary A - noun The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
Accresce Dictionary A - intransitive verb To accrue.
Accrescence Dictionary A - noun Continuous growth; an accretion.
Accrescent Dictionary A - adjective Growing; increasing.
Accrete Dictionary A - intransitive verb To grow together.
Accretion Dictionary A - noun The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Accretive Dictionary A - adjective Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
Accriminate Dictionary A - verb transitive To accuse of a crime.
Accroach Dictionary A - verb transitive To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.
Accroachment Dictionary A - noun An encroachment; usurpation.
Accrual Dictionary A - noun Accrument.
Accrued Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accrue.
Accruing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accrue.
Accrue Dictionary A - noun To increase; to augment.
Accruer Dictionary A - noun The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
Accrument Dictionary A - noun The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.
Accubation Dictionary A - noun The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
Accumb Dictionary A - intransitive verb To recline, as at table.
Accumbency Dictionary A - noun The state of being accumbent or reclining.
Accumbent Dictionary A - adjective Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Accumber Dictionary A - verb transitive To encumber.
Accumulated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accumulate.
Accumulating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accumulate.
Accumulate Dictionary A - verb transitive To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Accumulation Dictionary A - noun The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
Accumulative Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.
Accumulator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
Accuracy Dictionary A - noun The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
Accurate Dictionary A - adjective In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
Accurately Dictionary A - adverb In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Accurateness Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
Accurse Dictionary A - verb transitive To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Accursed Dictionary A - particle particle & adjective Alt. of Accurst.
Accurst Dictionary A - particle particle & adjective Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.
Accusable Dictionary A - adjective Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.
Accusal Dictionary A - noun Accusation.
Accusant Dictionary A - noun An accuser.
Accusation Dictionary A - noun The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
Accusatival Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the accusative case.
Accusative Dictionary A - adjective Producing accusations; accusatory.
Accusatively Dictionary A - adverb In an accusative manner.
Accusatorial Dictionary A - adjective Accusatory.
Accusatorially Dictionary A - adverb By way accusation.
Accusatory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
Accuse Dictionary A - noun Accusation.
Accused Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accuse.
Accusing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accuse.
Accusement Dictionary A - noun Accusation.
Accuser Dictionary A - noun One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Accusingly Dictionary A - adverb In an accusing manner.
Accustomed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Accustom.
Accustoming Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Accustom.
Accustom Dictionary A - verb transitive To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
Accustomable Dictionary A - adjective Habitual; customary; wonted.
Accustomably Dictionary A - adverb According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
Accustomance Dictionary A - noun Custom; habitual use.
Accustomarily Dictionary A - adverb Customarily.
Accustomary Dictionary A - adjective Usual; customary.
Accustomedness Dictionary A - noun Habituation.
Aces Dictionary A - pleural of Ace.
Ace Dictionary A - noun A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
Aceldama Dictionary A - noun The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.
Acentric Dictionary A - adjective Not centered; without a center.
Acephal Dictionary A - noun One of the Acephala.
Acephala Dictionary A - noun plural That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.
Acephalan Dictionary A - noun Same as Acephal.
Acephali Dictionary A - noun plural A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
Acephalist Dictionary A - noun One who acknowledges no head or superior.
Acephalocyst Dictionary A - noun A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
Acephalocystic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
Acephalous Dictionary A - adjective Headless.
Acerate Dictionary A - noun A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
Acerb Dictionary A - adjective Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
Acerbate Dictionary A - verb transitive To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Acerbic Dictionary A - adjective Sour or severe.
Acerbitude Dictionary A - noun Sourness and harshness.
Acerbity Dictionary A - noun Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Aceric Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
Acerose Dictionary A - adjective Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
Acerous Dictionary A - adjective Same as Acerose.
Acerval Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to a heap.
Acervate Dictionary A - verb transitive To heap up.
Acervation Dictionary A - noun A heaping up; accumulation.
Acervative Dictionary A - adjective Heaped up; tending to heap up.
Acervose Dictionary A - adjective Full of heaps.
Acervuline Dictionary A - adjective Resembling little heaps.
Acescence Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acescency.
Acescency Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
Acescent Dictionary A - adjective Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
Acetable Dictionary A - noun An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
Acetabular Dictionary A - adjective Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.
Acetabulifera Dictionary A - noun plural The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.
Acetabuliferous Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
Acetabuliform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.
Acetabulum Dictionary A - noun A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
Acetal Dictionary A - noun A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.
Acetaldehyde Dictionary A - noun Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
Acetamide Dictionary A - noun A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.
Acetanilide Dictionary A - noun A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.
Acetarious Dictionary A - adjective Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.
Acetary Dictionary A - noun An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.
Acetate Dictionary A - noun A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
Acetated Dictionary A - adjective Combined with acetic acid.
Acetic Dictionary A - adjective Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
Acetification Dictionary A - noun The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
Acetifier Dictionary A - noun An apparatus for hastening acetification.
Acetified Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acetify.
Acetifying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acetify.
Acetify Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into acid or vinegar.
Acetimeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
Acetimetry Dictionary A - noun The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it.
Acetin Dictionary A - noun A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.
Acetize Dictionary A - intransitive verb To acetify.
Acetometer Dictionary A - noun Same as Acetimeter.
Acetone Dictionary A - noun A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.
Acetonic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.
Acetose Dictionary A - adjective Sour like vinegar; acetous.
Acetosity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acetous; sourness.
Acetous Dictionary A - adjective Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
Acetyl Dictionary A - noun A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.
Acetylene Dictionary A - noun A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.
Ach Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Ache.
Ache Dictionary A - noun A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
Achaean Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Achaian.
Achaian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.
Acharnement Dictionary A - noun Savage fierceness; ferocity.
Achate Dictionary A - noun An agate.
Achatina Dictionary A - noun A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
Achatour Dictionary A - noun Purveyor; acater.
Ached Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ache.
Aching Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ache.
Achean Dictionary A - adjective & noun See Achaean, Achaian.
Achene Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Achenium.
Achenium Dictionary A - noun A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
Achenial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an achene.
Acheron Dictionary A - noun A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
Acherontic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
Achievable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being achieved.
Achievance Dictionary A - noun Achievement.
Achieved Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Achieve.
Achieving Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Achieve.
Achieve Dictionary A - verb transitive To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Achievement Dictionary A - noun The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
Achiever Dictionary A - noun One who achieves; a winner.
Achillean Dictionary A - adjective Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
Achilles' tendon Dictionary A - noun The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
Achilous Dictionary A - adjective Without a lip.
Achiote Dictionary A - noun Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.
Achlamydate Dictionary A - adjective Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
Achlamydeous Dictionary A - adjective Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.
Acholia Dictionary A - noun Deficiency or want of bile.
Acholous Dictionary A - adjective Lacking bile.
Achromatic Dictionary A - adjective Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
Achromatically Dictionary A - adverb In an achromatic manner.
Achromaticity Dictionary A - noun Achromatism.
Achromatin Dictionary A - noun Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.
Achromatism Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity.
Achromatization Dictionary A - noun The act or process of achromatizing.
Achromatized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Achromatize.
Achromatizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Achromatize.
Achromatize Dictionary A - verb transitive To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
Achromatopsy Dictionary A - noun Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
Achronic Dictionary A - adjective See Acronyc.
Achroodextrin Dictionary A - noun Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.
Achroous Dictionary A - adjective Colorless; achromatic.
Achylous Dictionary A - adjective Without chyle.
Achymous Dictionary A - adjective Without chyme.
Aciculae Dictionary A - pleural of Acicula.
Acicula Dictionary A - noun One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
Acicular Dictionary A - adjective Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.
Aciculate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aciculated.
Aciculated Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with aciculae.
Aciculiform Dictionary A - adjective Needle-shaped; acicular.
Aciculite Dictionary A - noun Needle ore.
Acid Dictionary A - adjective Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
Acidic Dictionary A - adjective Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.
Acidiferous Dictionary A - adjective Containing or yielding an acid.
Acidifiable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.
Acidific Dictionary A - adjective Producing acidity; converting into an acid.
Acidification Dictionary A - noun The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.
Acidifier Dictionary A - noun A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.
Acidified Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acidify.
Acidifying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acidify.
Acidify Dictionary A - verb transitive To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.
Acidimeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
Acidimetry Dictionary A - noun The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.
Acidity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.
Acidly Dictionary A - adverb Sourly; tartly.
Acidness Dictionary A - noun Acidity; sourness.
Acidulated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acidulate.
Acidulating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acidulate.
Acidulate Dictionary A - verb transitive To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
Acidulent Dictionary A - adjective Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
Acidulous Dictionary A - adjective Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture.
Acierage Dictionary A - noun The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
Aciform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like a needle.
Acinaceous Dictionary A - adjective Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
Acinaces Dictionary A - noun A short sword or saber.
Acinaciform Dictionary A - adjective Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.
Acinesia Dictionary A - noun Same as Akinesia.
Acinetae Dictionary A - noun plural A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.
Acinetiform Dictionary A - adjective Resembling the Acinetae.
Aciniform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.
Acinose Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acinous.
Acinous Dictionary A - adjective Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands.
Acini Dictionary A - pleural of Acinus.
Acinus Dictionary A - noun One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
Acipenser Dictionary A - noun A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.
Aciurgy Dictionary A - noun Operative surgery.
Acknow Dictionary A - verb transitive To recognize.
Acknowledged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acknowledge.
Acknowledging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acknowledge.
Acknowledge Dictionary A - verb transitive To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.
Acknowledgedly Dictionary A - adverb Confessedly.
Acknowledger Dictionary A - noun One who acknowledges.
Acknowledgment Dictionary A - noun The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
Aclinic Dictionary A - adjective Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator.
Acme Dictionary A - noun The top or highest point; the culmination.
Acne Dictionary A - noun A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.
Acnodal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to acnodes.
Acnode Dictionary A - noun An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.
Acock Dictionary A - adverb In a cocked or turned up fashion.
Acockbill Dictionary A - adverb Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
Acold Dictionary A - adjective Cold.
Acologic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to acology.
Acology Dictionary A - noun Materia medica; the science of remedies.
Acolothist Dictionary A - noun See Acolythist.
Acolyctine Dictionary A - noun An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum.
Acolyte Dictionary A - noun One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
Acolyth Dictionary A - noun Same as Acolyte.
Acolythist Dictionary A - noun An acolyte.
Aconddylose Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acondylous.
Acondylous Dictionary A - adjective Being without joints; jointless.
Aconital Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of aconite.
Aconite Dictionary A - noun The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.
Aconitia Dictionary A - noun Same as Aconitine.
Aconitic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aconite.
Aconitine Dictionary A - noun An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.
Aconitum Dictionary A - noun The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
Acontia Dictionary A - noun plural Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.
Acontias Dictionary A - noun Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
Acopic Dictionary A - adjective Relieving weariness; restorative.
Acorn Dictionary A - noun The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
Acorn cup Dictionary A - The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
Acorned Dictionary A - adjective Furnished or loaded with acorns.
Acorn-shell Dictionary A - noun One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.
Acosmism Dictionary A - noun A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
Acosmist Dictionary A - noun One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God.
Acotyledon Dictionary A - noun A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
Acotyledonous Dictionary A - adjective Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
Acouchy Dictionary A - noun A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).
Acoumeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing.
Acoumetry Dictionary A - noun The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.
Acoustic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
Acoustical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to acoustics.
Acoustically Dictionary A - adverb In relation to sound or to hearing.
Acoustician Dictionary A - noun One versed in acoustics.
Acoustics Dictionary A - noun The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws.
Acquaint Dictionary A - verb transitive Acquainted.
Acquainted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acquaint.
Acquainting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acquaint.
Acquaintable Dictionary A - adjective Easy to be acquainted with; affable.
Acquaintance Dictionary A - noun A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
Acquaintanceship Dictionary A - noun A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.
Acquaintant Dictionary A - noun An acquaintance.
Acquaintedness Dictionary A - noun State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
Acquest Dictionary A - noun Acquisition; the thing gained.
Acquiesced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acquiesce.
Acquiescing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acquiesce.
Acquiesce Dictionary A - intransitive verb To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to.
Acquiescence Dictionary A - noun A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
Acquiescency Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
Acquiescent Dictionary A - adjective Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
Acquiescently Dictionary A - adverb In an acquiescent manner.
Acquiet Dictionary A - verb transitive To quiet.
Acquirability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acquirable; attainableness.
Acquirable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being acquired.
Acquired Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acquire.
Acquiring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acquire.
Acquire Dictionary A - verb transitive To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
Acquirement Dictionary A - noun The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
Acquirer Dictionary A - noun A person who acquires.
Acquiry Dictionary A - noun Acquirement.
Acquisite Dictionary A - adjective Acquired.
Acquisition Dictionary A - noun The act or process of acquiring.
Acquisitive Dictionary A - adjective Acquired.
Acquisitively Dictionary A - adverb In the way of acquisition.
Acquisitiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
Acquisitor Dictionary A - noun One who acquires.
Acquist Dictionary A - noun Acquisition; gain.
Acquit Dictionary A - past participle Acquitted; set free; rid of.
Acquitted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Acquit.
Acquitting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Acquit.
Acquitment Dictionary A - noun Acquittal.
Acquittal Dictionary A - noun The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
Acquittance Dictionary A - noun The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
Acquitter Dictionary A - noun One who acquits or releases.
Acrania Dictionary A - noun Partial or total absence of the skull.
Acranial Dictionary A - adjective Wanting a skull.
Acrase Dictionary A - verb transitive Alt. of Acraze.
Acraze Dictionary A - verb transitive To craze.
Acrasia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acrasy.
Acrasy Dictionary A - noun Excess; intemperance.
Acraspeda Dictionary A - noun plural A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.
Acre Dictionary A - noun Any field of arable or pasture land.
Acreable Dictionary A - adjective Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce.
Acreage Dictionary A - noun Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.
Acred Dictionary A - adjective Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.
Acrid Dictionary A - adjective Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
Acridity Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acridness.
Acridness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Acridly Dictionary A - adverb In an acid manner.
Acrimonious Dictionary A - adjective Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall.
Acrimoniously Dictionary A - adverb In an acrimonious manner.
Acrimoniousness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.
Acrimonies Dictionary A - pleural of Acrimony.
Acrimony Dictionary A - noun A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants.
Acrisia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Acrisy.
Acrisy Dictionary A - noun Inability to judge.
Acrita Dictionary A - noun plural The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.
Acritan Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Acrita.
Acrite Dictionary A - adjective Acritan.
Acritical Dictionary A - adjective Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
Acritochromacy Dictionary A - noun Color blindness; achromatopsy.
Acritude Dictionary A - noun Acridity; pungency joined with heat.
Acrity Dictionary A - noun Sharpness; keenness.
Acroamatic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acroamatical.
Acroamatical Dictionary A - adjective Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.
Acroatic Dictionary A - adjective Same as Acroamatic.
Acrobat Dictionary A - noun One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Acrobatic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an acrobat.
Acrobatism Dictionary A - noun Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.
Acrocarpous Dictionary A - adjective Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Acrocephalic Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by a high skull.
Acrocephaly Dictionary A - noun Loftiness of skull.
Acroceraunian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.
Acrodactylum Dictionary A - noun The upper surface of the toes, individually.
Acrodont Dictionary A - noun One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
Acrogen Dictionary A - noun A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.
Acrogenous Dictionary A - adjective Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.
Acrolein Dictionary A - noun A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating.
Acrolith Dictionary A - noun A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood.
Acrolithan Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acrolithic.
Acrolithic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.
Acromegaly Dictionary A - noun Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.
Acromial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the acromion.
Acromion Dictionary A - noun The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.
Acromonogrammatic Dictionary A - adjective Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
Acronyc Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Acronychal.
Acronychal Dictionary A - adjective Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.
Acronycally Dictionary A - adverb In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa.
Acronyctous Dictionary A - adjective Acronycal.
Acrook Dictionary A - adverb Crookedly.
Acropetal Dictionary A - adjective Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.
Acrophony Dictionary A - noun The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
Acropodium Dictionary A - noun The entire upper surface of the foot.
Acropolis Dictionary A - noun The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Acropolitan Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an acropolis.
Acrospire Dictionary A - noun The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
Acrospore Dictionary A - noun A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
Acrosporous Dictionary A - adjective Having acrospores.
Across Dictionary A - noun From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
Acrostic Dictionary A - noun A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
Acrostical Dictionary A - noun Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
Acrostically Dictionary A - adverb After the manner of an acrostic.
Acrotarsium Dictionary A - noun The instep or front of the tarsus.
Acroteleutic Dictionary A - noun The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.
Acroter Dictionary A - noun Same as Acroterium.
Acroterial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments.
Acroteria Dictionary A - pleural of Acroterium.
Acroterium Dictionary A - noun One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
Acrotic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to or affecting the surface.
Acrotism Dictionary A - noun Lack or defect of pulsation.
Acrotomous Dictionary A - adjective Having a cleavage parallel with the base.
Acrylic Dictionary A - adjective Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.
Act Dictionary A - noun That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
Acted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Act.
Acting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Act.
Actable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being acted.
Actinal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth.
Actinaria Dictionary A - noun plural A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
Actiniae Dictionary A - pleural of Actinia.
Actinias Dictionary A - pleural of Actinia.
Actinia Dictionary A - noun An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. See Polyp..
Actinic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.
Actiniform Dictionary A - adjective Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.
Actinism Dictionary A - noun The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.
Actinium Dictionary A - noun A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.
Actino-chemistry Dictionary A - noun Chemistry in its relations to actinism.
Actinograph Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
Actinoid Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
Actinolite Dictionary A - noun A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Actinolitic Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.
Actinology Dictionary A - noun The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.
Actinomere Dictionary A - noun One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.
Actinometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.
Actinometric Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.
Actinometry Dictionary A - noun The measurement of the force of solar radiation.
Actinophorous Dictionary A - adjective Having straight projecting spines.
Actinosome Dictionary A - noun The entire body of a coelenterate.
Actinost Dictionary A - noun One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
Actinostome Dictionary A - noun The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
Actinotrocha Dictionary A - noun plural A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.
Actinozoa Dictionary A - noun plural A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.
Actinozoal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa.
Actinozoon Dictionary A - noun One of the Actinozoa.
Actinula Dictionary A - noun plural A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
Action Dictionary A - noun A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
Actionable Dictionary A - adjective That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
Actionably Dictionary A - adverb In an actionable manner.
Actionary Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Actionist.
Actionist Dictionary A - noun A shareholder in joint-stock company.
Actionless Dictionary A - adjective Void of action.
Activate Dictionary A - verb transitive To make active.
Active Dictionary A - adjective Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
Actively Dictionary A - adverb In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.
Activeness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.
Activities Dictionary A - pleural of Activity.
Activity Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Actless Dictionary A - adjective Without action or spirit.
Acton Dictionary A - noun A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.
Actor Dictionary A - noun One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
Actress Dictionary A - noun A female actor or doer.
Actual Dictionary A - adjective Involving or comprising action; active.
Actualist Dictionary A - noun One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist.
Actualities Dictionary A - pleural of Actuality.
Actuality Dictionary A - noun The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.
Actualization Dictionary A - noun A making actual or really existent.
Actualize Dictionary A - verb transitive To make actual; to realize in action.
Actually Dictionary A - adverb Actively.
Actualness Dictionary A - noun Quality of being actual; actuality.
Actuarial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
Actuaries Dictionary A - pleural of Actuary.
Actuary Dictionary A - noun A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
Actuated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Actuate.
Actuating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Actuate.
Actuate Dictionary A - verb transitive To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
Actuation Dictionary A - noun A bringing into action; movement.
Actuator Dictionary A - noun One who actuates, or puts into action.
Actuose Dictionary A - adjective Very active.
Actuosity Dictionary A - noun Abundant activity.
Acture Dictionary A - noun Action.
Acturience Dictionary A - noun Tendency or impulse to act.
Acuate Dictionary A - verb transitive To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
Acuation Dictionary A - noun Act of sharpening.
Acuition Dictionary A - noun The act of sharpening.
Acuity Dictionary A - noun Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
Aculeate Dictionary A - adjective Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
Aculeated Dictionary A - adjective Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
Aculeiform Dictionary A - adjective Like a prickle.
Aculeolate Dictionary A - adjective Having small prickles or sharp points.
Aculeous Dictionary A - adjective Aculeate.
Aculei Dictionary A - pleural of Aculeus.
Aculeus Dictionary A - noun A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
Acumen Dictionary A - noun Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
Acuminate Dictionary A - adjective Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
Acumination Dictionary A - noun A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
Acuminose Dictionary A - adjective Terminating in a flat, narrow end.
Acuminous Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by acumen; keen.
Acupressure Dictionary A - noun A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Acupuncturation Dictionary A - noun See Acupuncture.
Acupuncture Dictionary A - noun Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
Acustumaunce Dictionary A - noun See Accustomance.
Acutangular Dictionary A - adjective Acute-angled.
Acute Dictionary A - adjective Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Acute-angled Dictionary A - adjective Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Acutely Dictionary A - adverb In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
Acuteness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
Acutifoliate Dictionary A - adjective Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Acutilobate Dictionary A - adjective Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
Ad- Dictionary A - As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.
Adact Dictionary A - verb transitive To compel; to drive.
Adactyl Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Adactylous.
Adactylous Dictionary A - adjective Without fingers or without toes.
Adage Dictionary A - noun An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Adagial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
Adagio Dictionary A - adjective & adverb Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
Adam Dictionary A - noun The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
Adamant Dictionary A - noun A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Adamantean Dictionary A - adjective Of adamant; hard as adamant.
Adamantine Dictionary A - adjective Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
Adambulacral Dictionary A - adjective Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
Adamic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Adamical.
Adamical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamite Dictionary A - noun A descendant of Adam; a human being.
Adam's apple Dictionary A - See under Adam.
Adance Dictionary A - adverb Dancing.
Adangle Dictionary A - adverb Dangling.
Adansonia Dictionary A - noun A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
Adapt Dictionary A - adjective Fitted; suited.
Adapted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adapt.
Adapting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adapt.
Adaptability Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Adaptableness.
Adaptableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.
Adaptable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being adapted.
Adaptation Dictionary A - noun The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Adaptative Dictionary A - adjective Adaptive.
Adaptedness Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
Adapter Dictionary A - noun One who adapts.
Adaption Dictionary A - noun Adaptation.
Adaptive Dictionary A - adjective Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.
Adaptiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
Adaptly Dictionary A - adverb In a suitable manner.
Adaptness Dictionary A - noun Adaptedness.
Adaptorial Dictionary A - adjective Adaptive.
Adar Dictionary A - noun The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
Adarce Dictionary A - noun A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.
Adatis Dictionary A - noun A fine cotton cloth of India.
Adaunt Dictionary A - verb transitive To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
Adaw Dictionary A - verb transitive To subdue; to daunt.
Adays Dictionary A - adverb By day, or every day; in the daytime.
Ad captandum Dictionary A - A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Added Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Add.
Adding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Add.
Add Dictionary A - verb transitive To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
Addable Dictionary A - adjective Addible.
Addax Dictionary A - noun One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus).
Addeem Dictionary A - verb transitive To award; to adjudge.
Addenda Dictionary A - pleural of Addendum.
Addendum Dictionary A - noun A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Adder Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
Adder fly/ Dictionary A - A dragon fly.
Adder's-tongue Dictionary A - noun A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
Adderwort Dictionary A - noun The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).
Addibility Dictionary A - noun The quantity of being addible; capability of addition.
Addible Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being added.
Addice Dictionary A - noun See Adze.
Addict Dictionary A - past participle Addicted; devoted.
Addicted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Addict.
Addicting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Addict.
Addictedness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
Addiction Dictionary A - noun The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
Addison's disease Dictionary A - A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.
Additament Dictionary A - noun An addition, or a thing added.
Addition Dictionary A - noun The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
Additional Dictionary A - adjective Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
Additionally Dictionary A - adverb By way of addition.
Additionary Dictionary A - adjective Additional.
Addititious Dictionary A - adjective Additive.
Additive Dictionary A - adjective Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Additory Dictionary A - adjective Tending to add; making some addition.
Addle Dictionary A - noun Liquid filth; mire.
Addled Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Addle.
Addling Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Addle.
Addle-brain Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Addle-pate.
Addle-head Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Addle-pate.
Addle-pate Dictionary A - noun A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
Addle-brained Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Addle-pated.
Addle-headed Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Addle-pated.
Addle-pated Dictionary A - adjective Dull-witted; stupid.
Addle-patedness Dictionary A - noun Stupidity.
Addlings Dictionary A - noun plural Earnings.
Addoom Dictionary A - verb transitive To adjudge.
Addorsed Dictionary A - adjective Set or turned back to back.
Addressed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Address.
Addressing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Address.
Address Dictionary A - verb To aim; to direct.
Addressee Dictionary A - noun One to whom anything is addressed.
Addression Dictionary A - noun The act of addressing or directing one's course.
Adduced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adduce.
Adducing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adduce.
Adduce Dictionary A - verb transitive To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Adducent Dictionary A - adjective Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
Adducer Dictionary A - noun One who adduces.
Adducible Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being adduced.
Adduct Dictionary A - verb transitive To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
Adduction Dictionary A - noun The act of adducing or bringing forward.
Adductive Dictionary A - adjective Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
Adductor Dictionary A - noun A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
Addulce Dictionary A - verb transitive To sweeten; to soothe.
Adeem Dictionary A - verb transitive To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
Adelantadillo Dictionary A - noun A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.
Adelantado Dictionary A - noun A governor of a province; a commander.
Adelaster Dictionary A - noun A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
Adeling Dictionary A - noun Same as Atheling.
Adelocodonic Dictionary A - adjective Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
Adelopod Dictionary A - noun An animal having feet that are not apparent.
Adelphia Dictionary A - noun A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.
Adelphous Dictionary A - adjective Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.
Adempt Dictionary A - past participle Takes away.
Ademption Dictionary A - noun The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like.
Aden- Dictionary A - Alt. of Adeno-.
Adeno- Dictionary A - Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.
Adenalgia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Adenalgy.
Adenalgy Dictionary A - noun Pain in a gland.
Adeniform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like a gland; adenoid.
Adenitis Dictionary A - noun Glandular inflammation.
Adenographic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to adenography.
Adenography Dictionary A - noun That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
Adenoid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Adenoidal.
Adenoidal Dictionary A - adjective Glandlike; glandular.
Adenological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to adenology.
Adenology Dictionary A - noun The part of physiology that treats of the glands.
Adenophorous Dictionary A - adjective Producing glands.
Adenophyllous Dictionary A - adjective Having glands on the leaves.
Adenose Dictionary A - adjective Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.
Adenotomic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to adenotomy.
Adenotomy Dictionary A - noun Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
Adenous Dictionary A - adjective Same as Adenose.
Adeps Dictionary A - noun Animal fat; lard.
Adept Dictionary A - noun One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
Adeption Dictionary A - adjective An obtaining; attainment.
Adeptist Dictionary A - noun A skilled alchemist.
Adeptness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adept; skill.
Adequacy Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.
Adequate Dictionary A - adjective Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
Adequately Dictionary A - adverb In an adequate manner.
Adequateness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
Adequation Dictionary A - noun The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
Adesmy Dictionary A - noun The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
Adessenarian Dictionary A - noun One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
Adfected Dictionary A - verb See Affected, 5.
Adfiliated Dictionary A - adjective See Affiliated.
Adfiliation Dictionary A - noun See Affiliation.
Adfluxion Dictionary A - noun See Affluxion.
Adhamant Dictionary A - adjective Clinging, as by hooks.
Adhered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adhere.
Adhering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adhere.
Adhere Dictionary A - intransitive verb To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
Adherence Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of adhering.
Adherency Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
Adherent Dictionary A - adjective Sticking; clinging; adhering.
Adherently Dictionary A - adverb In an adherent manner.
Adherer Dictionary A - noun One who adheres; an adherent.
Adhesion Dictionary A - noun The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.
Adhesive Dictionary A - adjective Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
Adhesively Dictionary A - adverb In an adhesive manner.
Adhesiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
Adhibit Dictionary A - verb transitive To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.
Adhibition Dictionary A - noun The act of adhibiting; application; use.
Ad hominem Dictionary A - A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.
Adhort Dictionary A - verb transitive To exhort; to advise.
Adhortation Dictionary A - noun Advice; exhortation.
Adhortatory Dictionary A - adjective Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.
Adiabatic Dictionary A - adjective Not giving out or receiving heat.
Adiactinic Dictionary A - adjective Not transmitting the actinic rays.
Adiantum Dictionary A - noun A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
Adiaphorism Dictionary A - noun Religious indifference.
Adiaphorist Dictionary A - noun One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.
Adiaphoristic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.
Adiaphorite Dictionary A - noun Same as Adiaphorist.
Adiaphorous Dictionary A - adjective Indifferent or neutral.
Adiaphory Dictionary A - noun Indifference.
Adiathermic Dictionary A - adjective Not pervious to heat.
Adieu Dictionary A - interjection & adverb Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
Adieus Dictionary A - pleural of Adieu.
Adight Dictionary A - past participle of Adight.
Ad infinitum Dictionary A - Without limit; endlessly.
Ad interim Dictionary A - Meanwhile; temporary.
Adipescent Dictionary A - adjective Becoming fatty.
Adipic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
Adipocerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into adipocere.
Adipoceration Dictionary A - noun The act or process of changing into adipocere.
Adipocere Dictionary A - noun A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.
Adipoceriform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.
Adipocerous Dictionary A - adjective Like adipocere.
Adipose Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
Adiposeness Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Adiposity.
Adiposity Dictionary A - noun The state of being fat; fatness.
Adipous Dictionary A - adjective Fatty; adipose.
Adipsous Dictionary A - adjective Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.
Adipsy Dictionary A - noun Absence of thirst.
Adit Dictionary A - noun An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
Adjacence Dictionary A - Alt. of Adjacency.
Adjacency Dictionary A - The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
Adjacent Dictionary A - adjective Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
Adjacently Dictionary A - adverb So as to be adjacent.
Adject Dictionary A - verb transitive To add or annex; to join.
Adjection Dictionary A - noun The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.
Adjectional Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
Adjectitious Dictionary A - Added; additional.
Adjectival Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
Adjectivally Dictionary A - adverb As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.
Adjective Dictionary A - noun Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
Adjectived Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjective.
Adjectiving Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjective.
Adjectively Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
Adjoined Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjoin.
Adjoining Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjoin.
Adjoin Dictionary A - verb transitive To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Adjoinant Dictionary A - adjective Contiguous.
Adjoint Dictionary A - noun An adjunct; a helper.
Adjourned Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjourn.
Adjourning Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjourn.
Adjourn Dictionary A - verb transitive To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.
Adjournal Dictionary A - noun Adjournment; postponement.
Adjournment Dictionary A - noun The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
Adjudged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjudge.
Adjudging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjudge.
Adjudge Dictionary A - verb transitive To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.
Adjudger Dictionary A - noun One who adjudges.
Adjudgment Dictionary A - noun The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.
Adjudicated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjudicate.
Adjudicating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjudicate.
Adjudicate Dictionary A - verb transitive To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Adjudication Dictionary A - noun The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
Adjudicative Dictionary A - adjective Adjudicating.
Adjudicator Dictionary A - noun One who adjudicates.
Adjudicature Dictionary A - noun Adjudication.
Adjugate Dictionary A - verb transitive To yoke to.
Adjument Dictionary A - noun Help; support; also, a helper.
Adjuvant Dictionary A - noun A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Adjunct Dictionary A - adjective Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Adjunction Dictionary A - noun The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
Adjunctive Dictionary A - adjective Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
Adjunctively Dictionary A - adverb In an adjunctive manner.
Adjunctly Dictionary A - adverb By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.
Adjuration Dictionary A - noun The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
Adjuratory Dictionary A - adjective Containing an adjuration.
Adjured Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjure.
Adjuring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjure.
Adjure Dictionary A - verb transitive To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.
Adjurer Dictionary A - noun One who adjures.
Adjusted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adjust.
Adjusting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adjust.
Adjust Dictionary A - verb transitive To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
Adjustable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being adjusted.
Adjustage Dictionary A - noun Adjustment.
Adjuster Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, adjusts.
Adjustive Dictionary A - adjective Tending to adjust.
Adjustment Dictionary A - noun The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
Adjutage Dictionary A - noun Same as Ajutage.
Adjutancy Dictionary A - noun The office of an adjutant.
Adjutant Dictionary A - noun A helper; an assistant.
Adjutator Dictionary A - noun A corruption of Agitator.
Adjute Dictionary A - verb transitive To add.
Adjutor Dictionary A - noun A helper or assistant.
Adjutory Dictionary A - adjective Serving to help or assist; helping.
Adjutrix Dictionary A - noun A female helper or assistant.
Adlegation Dictionary A - noun A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
Ad libitum Dictionary A - At one's pleasure; as one wishes.
Adlocution Dictionary A - noun See Allocution.
Admarginate Dictionary A - verb transitive To write in the margin.
Admaxillary Dictionary A - adjective Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
Admeasure Dictionary A - verb transitive To measure.
Admeasurer Dictionary A - noun One who admeasures.
Admensuration Dictionary A - noun Same as Admeasurement.
Adminicle Dictionary A - noun Help or support; an auxiliary.
Adminicular Dictionary A - adjective Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.
Adminiculary Dictionary A - adjective Adminicular.
Administered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Administer.
Administering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Administer.
Administer Dictionary A - verb transitive To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
Administerial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
Administrable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.
Administrant Dictionary A - adjective Executive; acting; managing affairs.
Administrate Dictionary A - verb transitive To administer.
Administration Dictionary A - noun The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.
Administrative Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
Administrator Dictionary A - noun One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
Administratorship Dictionary A - noun The position or office of an administrator.
Administratrix Dictionary A - noun A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
Admirability Dictionary A - noun Admirableness.
Admirable Dictionary A - adjective Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
Admirableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
Admirably Dictionary A - adverb In an admirable manner.
Admiral Dictionary A - noun A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
Admiralship Dictionary A - noun The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
Admiralties Dictionary A - pleural of Admiralty.
Admiralty Dictionary A - noun The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
Admirance Dictionary A - noun Admiration.
Admiration Dictionary A - noun Wonder; astonishment.
Admirative Dictionary A - adjective Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.
Admired Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Admire.
Admiring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Admire.
Admire Dictionary A - verb transitive To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
Admirer Dictionary A - noun One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
Admissibility Dictionary A - noun The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Admissible Dictionary A - adjective Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
Admission Dictionary A - noun The act or practice of admitting.
Admissive Dictionary A - adjective Implying an admission; tending to admit.
Admissory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to admission.
Admitted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Admit.
Admitting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Admit.
Admit Dictionary A - verb transitive To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
Admittable Dictionary A - adjective Admissible.
Admittance Dictionary A - noun The act of admitting.
Admittatur Dictionary A - noun The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
Admittedly Dictionary A - adverb Confessedly.
Admitter Dictionary A - noun One who admits.
Admix Dictionary A - verb transitive To mingle with something else; to mix.
Admixtion Dictionary A - noun A mingling of different things; admixture.
Admixture Dictionary A - noun The act of mixing; mixture.
Admonished Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Admonish.
Admonishing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Admonish.
Admonish Dictionary A - verb transitive To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
Admonisher Dictionary A - noun One who admonishes.
Admonishment Dictionary A - noun Admonition.
Admonition Dictionary A - noun Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Admonitioner Dictionary A - noun Admonisher.
Admonitive Dictionary A - adjective Admonitory.
Admonitor Dictionary A - noun Admonisher; monitor.
Admonitorial Dictionary A - adjective Admonitory.
Admonitory Dictionary A - adjective That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
Admonitrix Dictionary A - noun A female admonitor.
Admortization Dictionary A - noun The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Admove Dictionary A - verb transitive To move or conduct to or toward.
Adnascent Dictionary A - adjective Growing to or on something else.
Adnate Dictionary A - adjective Grown to congenitally.
Adnation Dictionary A - noun The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Adnominal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.
Adnoun Dictionary A - noun An adjective, or attribute.
Adnubilated Dictionary A - adjective Clouded; obscured.
Ado Dictionary A - noun To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
Adobe Dictionary A - noun An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Adolescence Dictionary A - noun The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Adolescency Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
Adolescent Dictionary A - adjective Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Adonean Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.
Adonic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
Adonis Dictionary A - noun A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
Adonist Dictionary A - noun One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
Adonize Dictionary A - verb transitive To beautify; to dandify.
Adoor Dictionary A - Alt. of Adoors.
Adoors Dictionary A - At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
Adopted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adopt.
Adopting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adopt.
Adopt Dictionary A - verb transitive To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Adoptable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being adopted.
Adopter Dictionary A - noun One who adopts.
Adoption Dictionary A - noun The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Adoptionist Dictionary A - noun One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious Dictionary A - adjective Adopted.
Adoptive Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
Adorability Dictionary A - noun Adorableness.
Adorable Dictionary A - adjective Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
Adorableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
Adorably Dictionary A - adverb In an adorable manner.
Adoration Dictionary A - noun The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Adoring Dictionary A - imperative & particle particle Adored (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore.
Adore Dictionary A - verb transitive To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Adorement Dictionary A - noun The act of adoring; adoration.
Adorer Dictionary A - noun One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
Adoringly Dictionary A - adverb With adoration.
Adorned Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adorn.
Adorning Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adorn.
Adorn Dictionary A - verb transitive To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
Adornation Dictionary A - noun Adornment.
Adorner Dictionary A - noun He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
Adorningly Dictionary A - adverb By adorning; decoratively.
Adornment Dictionary A - noun An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
Adosculation Dictionary A - noun Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.
Adown Dictionary A - adverb From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
Adpress Dictionary A - verb transitive See Appressed.
Adrad Dictionary A - particle adjective Put in dread; afraid.
Adragant Dictionary A - noun Gum tragacanth.
Adread Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To dread.
Adreamed Dictionary A - past participle Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.
Adrenal Dictionary A - adjective Suprarenal.
Adrian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.
Adriatic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Adrift Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Adrip Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.
Adrogate Dictionary A - verb transitive To adopt (a person who is his own master).
Adrogation Dictionary A - noun A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
Adroit Dictionary A - adjective Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.
Adroitly Dictionary A - adverb In an adroit manner.
Adroitness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
Adry Dictionary A - adjective In a dry or thirsty condition.
Adscititious Dictionary A - adjective Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Adscript Dictionary A - adjective Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Adscriptive Dictionary A - adjective Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Adsignification Dictionary A - noun Additional signification.
Adsignify Dictionary A - verb transitive To denote additionally.
Adstrict Dictionary A - noun See Astrict, and Astriction.
Adstrictory Dictionary A - adjective See Astrictory.
Adstringent Dictionary A - adjective See Astringent.
Adularia Dictionary A - noun A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.
Adulate Dictionary A - verb transitive To flatter in a servile way.
Adulation Dictionary A - noun Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Adulator Dictionary A - noun A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Adulatory Dictionary A - adjective Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
Adulatress Dictionary A - noun A woman who flatters with servility.
Adult Dictionary A - adjective Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
Adulter Dictionary A - intransitive verb To commit adultery; to pollute.
Adulterant Dictionary A - noun That which is used to adulterate anything.
Adulterated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adulterate.
Adulterating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adulterate.
Adulterate Dictionary A - verb transitive To defile by adultery.
Adulteration Dictionary A - noun The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
Adulterator Dictionary A - noun One who adulterates or corrupts.
Adulterer Dictionary A - noun A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
Adulteress Dictionary A - noun A woman who commits adultery.
Adulterine Dictionary A - adjective Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
Adulterize Dictionary A - intransitive verb To commit adultery.
Adulterous Dictionary A - adjective Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
Adulterously Dictionary A - adverb In an adulterous manner.
Adulteries Dictionary A - pleural of Adultery.
Adultery Dictionary A - noun The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
Adultness Dictionary A - noun The state of being adult.
Adumbrant Dictionary A - adjective Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
Adumbrate Dictionary A - verb transitive To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Adumbration Dictionary A - noun The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
Adumbrative Dictionary A - adjective Faintly representing; typical.
Adunation Dictionary A - noun A uniting; union.
Adunc Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Adunque.
Adunque Dictionary A - adjective Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.
Aduncity Dictionary A - noun Curvature inwards; hookedness.
Aduncous Dictionary A - adjective Curved inwards; hooked.
Adure Dictionary A - verb transitive To burn up.
Adust Dictionary A - adjective Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Adusted Dictionary A - adjective Burnt; adust.
Adustible Dictionary A - adjective That may be burnt.
Adustion Dictionary A - noun The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
Ad valorem Dictionary A - A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
Advanced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advance.
Advancing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advance.
Advance Dictionary A - verb transitive To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Advancement Dictionary A - verb transitive The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
Advancer Dictionary A - noun One who advances; a promoter.
Advancive Dictionary A - adjective Tending to advance.
Advantage Dictionary A - noun Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Advantaged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advantage.
Advantaging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advantage.
Advantageable Dictionary A - adjective Advantageous.
Advantageous Dictionary A - adjective Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
Advantageously Dictionary A - adverb Profitably; with advantage.
Advantageousness Dictionary A - noun Profitableness.
Advene Dictionary A - intransitive verb To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.
Advenient Dictionary A - adjective Coming from outward causes; superadded.
Advent Dictionary A - noun The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Adventist Dictionary A - noun One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.
Adventitious Dictionary A - adjective Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Adventive Dictionary A - adjective Accidental.
Adventual Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the season of advent.
Adventure Dictionary A - noun That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Adventured Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Adventure.
Adventuring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Adventure.
Adventureful Dictionary A - adjective Given to adventure.
Adventurer Dictionary A - noun One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
Adventuresome Dictionary A - adjective Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
Adventuress Dictionary A - noun A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Adventurous Dictionary A - noun Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Adventurously Dictionary A - adverb In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
Adventurousness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
Adverb Dictionary A - noun A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
Adverbial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Adverbiality Dictionary A - noun The quality of being adverbial.
Adverbialize Dictionary A - verb transitive To give the force or form of an adverb to.
Adverbially Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of an adverb.
Adversaria Dictionary A - noun plural A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Adversarious Dictionary A - adjective Hostile.
Adversaries Dictionary A - pleural of Adversary.
Adversary Dictionary A - noun One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Adversative Dictionary A - adjective Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
Adverse Dictionary A - adjective Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
Adversely Dictionary A - adverb In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.
Adverseness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
Adversifoliate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Adversifolious.
Adversifolious Dictionary A - adjective Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.
Adversion Dictionary A - noun A turning towards; attention.
Adversities Dictionary A - pleural of Adversity.
Adversity Dictionary A - noun Opposition; contrariety.
Adverted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advert.
Adverting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advert.
Advert Dictionary A - intransitive verb To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Advertence Dictionary A - Alt. of Advertency.
Advertency Dictionary A - The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
Advertent Dictionary A - adjective Attentive; heedful; regardful.
Advertised Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advertise.
Advertising Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advertise.
Advertise Dictionary A - verb transitive To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
Advertisement Dictionary A - noun The act of informing or notifying; notification.
Advertiser Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, advertises.
Advice Dictionary A - noun An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
Advisability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being advisable; advisableness.
Advisable Dictionary A - adjective Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
Advisable-ness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
Advisably Dictionary A - adverb With advice; wisely.
Advised Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advise.
Advising Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advise.
Advise Dictionary A - verb transitive To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
Advisedly Dictionary A - adverb Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
Advisedness Dictionary A - noun Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.
Advisement Dictionary A - noun Counsel; advice; information.
Adviser Dictionary A - noun One who advises.
Advisership Dictionary A - noun The office of an adviser.
Adviso Dictionary A - noun Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.
Advisory Dictionary A - adjective Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.
Advocacy Dictionary A - noun The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.
Advocate Dictionary A - noun One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Advocated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Advocate.
Advocating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Advocate.
Advocateship Dictionary A - noun Office or duty of an advocate.
Advocation Dictionary A - noun The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
Advocatory Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an advocate.
Advoke Dictionary A - verb transitive To summon; to call.
Advolution Dictionary A - noun A rolling toward something.
Advoutrer Dictionary A - noun An adulterer.
Advoutress Dictionary A - noun An adulteress.
Advoutry Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Advowtry.
Advowtry Dictionary A - noun Adultery.
Advowee Dictionary A - noun One who has an advowson.
Advowson Dictionary A - noun The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it..
Advoyer Dictionary A - noun See Avoyer.
Adward Dictionary A - noun Award.
Adynamia Dictionary A - noun Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.
Adynamic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
Adynamy Dictionary A - noun Adynamia.
Adyta Dictionary A - pleural of Adytum.
Adytum Dictionary A - noun The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
Adz Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Adze.
Adze Dictionary A - noun A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
Ae Dictionary A - Alt. of Ae.
Aecidia Dictionary A - pleural of Aecidium.
Aecidium Dictionary A - noun A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
Aedile Dictionary A - noun A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.
Aedileship Dictionary A - noun The office of an aedile.
Aegean Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.
Aegicrania Dictionary A - noun plural Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.
Aegilops Dictionary A - noun An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
Aegis Dictionary A - noun A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.
Aegophony Dictionary A - noun Same as Egophony.
Aegrotat Dictionary A - noun A medical certificate that a student is ill.
Aeneid Dictionary A - noun The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.
Aeneous Dictionary A - adjective Colored like bronze.
Aeolian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
Aeolic Dictionary A - adjective Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode.
Aeolipile Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Aeolipyle.
Aeolipyle Dictionary A - noun An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve.
Aeolotropic Dictionary A - adjective Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.
Aeolotropy Dictionary A - noun Difference of quality or property in different directions.
Aeolus Dictionary A - noun The god of the winds.
Aeon Dictionary A - noun A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.
Aeonian Dictionary A - adjective Eternal; everlasting.
Aepyornis Dictionary A - noun A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.
Aerated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aerate.
Aerating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aerate.
Aerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
Aeration Dictionary A - noun Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.
Aerator Dictionary A - noun That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
Aerial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.
Aeriality Dictionary A - noun The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality.
Aerially Dictionary A - adverb Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner.
Aerie Dictionary A - noun The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.
Aeriferous Dictionary A - adjective Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube.
Aerification Dictionary A - noun The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.
Aeriform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.
Aerify Dictionary A - verb transitive To infuse air into; to combine air with.
Aero- Dictionary A - The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
Aerobies Dictionary A - noun plural Microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.
Aerobiotic Dictionary A - adjective Related to, or of the nature of, aerobies; as, aerobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.
Aerocyst Dictionary A - noun One of the air cells of algals.
Aerodynamic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the force of air in motion.
Aerodynamics Dictionary A - noun The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.
Aerognosy Dictionary A - noun The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature.
Aerographer Dictionary A - noun One versed in aeography: an aerologist.
Aerographic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aerographical.
Aerographical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to aerography; aerological.
Aerography Dictionary A - noun A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology.
Aerohydrodynamic Dictionary A - adjective Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel.
Aerolite Dictionary A - noun A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.
Aerolith Dictionary A - noun Same as A/rolite.
Aerolithology Dictionary A - noun The science of aerolites.
Aerolitic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron.
Aerologic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aerological.
Aerological Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aerology.
Aerologist Dictionary A - noun One versed in aerology.
Aerology Dictionary A - noun That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.
Aeromancy Dictionary A - noun Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.
Aerometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.
Aerometric Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aerometry; as, aerometric investigations.
Aerometry Dictionary A - noun The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.
Aeronaut Dictionary A - noun An aerial navigator; a balloonist.
Aeronautic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aeronautical.
Aeronautical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing.
Aeronautics Dictionary A - noun The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning.
Aerophobia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Aerophoby.
Aerophoby Dictionary A - noun Dread of a current of air.
Aerophyte Dictionary A - noun A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
Aeroplane Dictionary A - noun A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.
Aeroscope Dictionary A - noun An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.
Aeroscopy Dictionary A - noun The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.
Aerose Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy.
Aerosiderite Dictionary A - noun A mass of meteoric iron.
Aerosphere Dictionary A - noun The atmosphere.
Aerostat Dictionary A - noun A balloon.
Aerostatic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aerostatical.
Aerostatical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.
Aerostatics Dictionary A - noun The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics.
Aerostation Dictionary A - noun Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.
Aeruginous Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.
Aerugo Dictionary A - noun The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.
Aery Dictionary A - noun An aerie.
Aesculapian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.
Aesculapius Dictionary A - noun The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.
Aesculin Dictionary A - noun Same as Esculin.
Esopian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Aesop, or in his manner.
Aesopic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Esopic.
Esopic Dictionary A - adjective Same as Aesopian.
Aesthesia Dictionary A - noun Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.
Aesthesiometer Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Esthesiometer.
Esthesiometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.
Aesthesis Dictionary A - noun Sensuous perception.
Aesthesodic Dictionary A - adjective Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.
Aesthete Dictionary A - noun One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics.
Aesthetic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aesthetical.
Aesthetical Dictionary A - adjective Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc.
Aesthetican Dictionary A - noun One versed in aesthetics.
Aestheticism Dictionary A - noun The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art.
Aesthetics Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Esthetics.
Esthetics Dictionary A - noun The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.
Aestho-physiology Dictionary A - noun The science of sensation in relation to nervous action.
Aestival Dictionary A - adjective Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.
Aestivate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To spend the summer.
Aestivation Dictionary A - noun The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.
Aestuary Dictionary A - noun & adjective See Estuary.
Aestuous Dictionary A - adjective Glowing; agitated, as with heat.
Aetheogamous Dictionary A - adjective Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.
Aether Dictionary A - noun See Ether.
Aethiops mineral Dictionary A - Same as Ethiops mineral.
Aethogen Dictionary A - noun A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
Aethrioscope Dictionary A - noun An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.
Aetiological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause.
Aetiology Dictionary A - noun The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
Aetites Dictionary A - noun See Eaglestone.
Afar Dictionary A - adverb At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off.
Afeard Dictionary A - particle adjective Afraid.
Afer Dictionary A - noun The southwest wind.
Affability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.
Affable Dictionary A - adjective Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.
Affableness Dictionary A - noun Affability.
Affably Dictionary A - adverb In an affable manner; courteously.
Affabrous Dictionary A - adjective Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.
Affair Dictionary A - noun That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius.
Affamish Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.
Affamishment Dictionary A - noun Starvation.
Affatuate Dictionary A - verb transitive To infatuate.
Affear Dictionary A - verb transitive To frighten.
Affected Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affect.
Affecting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affect.
Affect Dictionary A - verb transitive To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
Affectation Dictionary A - noun An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
Affectationist Dictionary A - noun One who exhibits affectation.
Affectedly Dictionary A - adverb In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
Affectedness Dictionary A - noun Affectation.
Affecter Dictionary A - noun One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.
Affectibility Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being affectible.
Affectible Dictionary A - adjective That may be affected.
Affectingly Dictionary A - adverb In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.
Affection Dictionary A - noun The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
Affectional Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
Affectionate Dictionary A - adjective Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
Affectionated Dictionary A - adjective Disposed; inclined.
Affectionately Dictionary A - adverb With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
Affectionateness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Affectioned Dictionary A - adjective Disposed.
Affective Dictionary A - adjective Tending to affect; affecting.
Affectively Dictionary A - adverb In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
Affectuous Dictionary A - adjective Full of passion or emotion; earnest.
Affeer Dictionary A - verb transitive To confirm; to assure.
Affeerer Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Affeeror.
Affeeror Dictionary A - noun One who affeers.
Affeerment Dictionary A - noun The act of affeering.
Afferent Dictionary A - adjective Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.
Affettuoso Dictionary A - adverb With feeling.
Affiance Dictionary A - noun Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
Affianced Dictionary A - imperative / past particle of Affiance.
Affiancing Dictionary A - past particle / verb noun of Affiance.
Affiancer Dictionary A - noun One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
Affiant Dictionary A - noun One who makes an affidavit.
Affidavit Dictionary A - noun A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
Affile Dictionary A - verb transitive To polish.
Affiliable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.
Affiliated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affiliate.
Affiliating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affiliate.
Affiliate Dictionary A - verb transitive To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Affiliation Dictionary A - noun Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
Affinal Dictionary A - adjective Related by marriage; from the same source.
Affine Dictionary A - verb transitive To refine.
Affined Dictionary A - adjective Joined in affinity or by any tie.
Affinitative Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of affinity.
Affinitive Dictionary A - adjective Closely connected, as by affinity.
Affinities Dictionary A - pleural of Affinity.
Affinity Dictionary A - noun Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
Affirmed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affirm.
Affirming Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affirm.
Affirm Dictionary A - verb transitive to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
Affirmable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.
Affirmance Dictionary A - noun Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
Affirmant Dictionary A - noun One who affirms or asserts.
Affirmation Dictionary A - noun Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
Affirmative Dictionary A - adjective Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
Affirmatively Dictionary A - adverb In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
Affirmatory Dictionary A - adjective Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
Affirmer Dictionary A - noun One who affirms.
Affixed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affix.
Affixing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affix.
Affix Dictionary A - verb transitive To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.
Affixes Dictionary A - pleural of Affix.
Affixion Dictionary A - noun Affixture.
Affixture Dictionary A - noun The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.
Afflation Dictionary A - noun A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.
Afflatus Dictionary A - noun A breath or blast of wind.
Afflicted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Afflict.
Afflicting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Afflict.
Afflict Dictionary A - verb transitive To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
Afflictedness Dictionary A - noun The state of being afflicted; affliction.
Afflicter Dictionary A - noun One who afflicts.
Affliction Dictionary A - noun The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
Afflictionless Dictionary A - adjective Free from affliction.
Afflictive Dictionary A - adjective Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.
Afflictively Dictionary A - adverb In an afflictive manner.
Affluence Dictionary A - noun A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
Affluency Dictionary A - noun Affluence.
Affluent Dictionary A - adjective Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
Affluently Dictionary A - adverb Abundantly; copiously.
Affluentness Dictionary A - noun Great plenty.
Afflux Dictionary A - noun A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.
Affluxion Dictionary A - noun The act of flowing towards; afflux.
Affodill Dictionary A - noun Asphodel.
Afforce Dictionary A - verb transitive To reenforce; to strengthen.
Afforcement Dictionary A - noun A fortress; a fortification for defense.
Afforciament Dictionary A - noun See Afforcement.
Afforded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Afford.
Affording Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Afford.
Afford Dictionary A - verb transitive To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
Affordable Dictionary A - adjective That may be afforded.
Affordment Dictionary A - noun Anything given as a help; bestowal.
Afforest Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
Afforestation Dictionary A - noun The act of converting into forest or woodland.
Afformative Dictionary A - noun An affix.
Affranchise Dictionary A - verb transitive To make free; to enfranchise.
Affranchisement Dictionary A - noun The act of making free; enfranchisement.
Affrap Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To strike, or strike down.
Affrayed Dictionary A - past participle of Affray.
Affray Dictionary A - verb transitive To startle from quiet; to alarm.
Affrayer Dictionary A - noun One engaged in an affray.
Affrayment Dictionary A - noun Affray.
Affreight Dictionary A - verb transitive To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.
Affreighter Dictionary A - noun One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
Affreightment Dictionary A - noun The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
Affret Dictionary A - noun A furious onset or attack.
Affriction Dictionary A - noun The act of rubbing against.
Affriended Dictionary A - past participle Made friends; reconciled.
Affrighted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affright.
Affrighting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affright.
Affright Dictionary A - verb transitive To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
Affrightedly Dictionary A - adverb With fright.
Affrighten Dictionary A - verb transitive To frighten.
Affrighter Dictionary A - noun One who frightens.
Affrightful Dictionary A - adjective Terrifying; frightful.
Affrightment Dictionary A - noun Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.
Affronted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affront.
Affronting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affront.
Affront Dictionary A - verb transitive To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
Affronte Dictionary A - adjective Face to face, or front to front; facing.
Affrontedly Dictionary A - adverb Shamelessly.
Affrontee Dictionary A - noun One who receives an affront.
Affronter Dictionary A - noun One who affronts, or insults to the face.
Affrontingly Dictionary A - adverb In an affronting manner.
Affrontive Dictionary A - adjective Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.
Affrontiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality that gives an affront or offense.
Affused Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affuse.
Affusing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Affuse.
Affuse Dictionary A - verb transitive To pour out or upon.
Affusion Dictionary A - noun The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
Affied Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Affy.
Affying Dictionary A - past particle of Affy.
Affy Dictionary A - verb transitive To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust.
Afghan Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.
Afield Dictionary A - adverb To, in, or on the field.
Afire Dictionary A - adverb & adjective On fire.
Aflame Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
Aflat Dictionary A - adverb Level with the ground; flat.
Aflaunt Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a flaunting state or position.
Aflicker Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a flickering state.
Afloat Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
Aflow Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Flowing.
Aflush Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a flushed or blushing state.
Aflutter Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a flutter; agitated.
Afoam Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.
Afoot Dictionary A - adverb On foot.
Afore Dictionary A - adverb Before.
Aforecited Dictionary A - adjective Named or quoted before.
Aforegoing Dictionary A - adjective Going before; foregoing.
Aforehand Dictionary A - adverb Beforehand; in anticipation.
Aforementioned Dictionary A - adjective Previously mentioned; before-mentioned.
Aforenamed Dictionary A - adjective Named before.
Aforesaid Dictionary A - adjective Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.
Aforethought Dictionary A - adjective Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
Aforetime Dictionary A - adverb In time past; formerly.
A fortiori Dictionary A - With stronger reason.
Afoul Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In collision; entangled.
Afraid Dictionary A - particle adjective Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
Afreet Dictionary A - noun Same as Afrit.
Afresh Dictionary A - adverb Anew; again; once more; newly.
Afric Dictionary A - adjective African.
African Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Africa.
Africander Dictionary A - noun One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
Africanism Dictionary A - noun A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.
Africanize Dictionary A - verb transitive To place under the domination of Africans or negroes.
Afrit Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Afreet.
Afrite Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Afreet.
Afront Dictionary A - adverb In front; face to face.
Aft Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
After Dictionary A - adjective Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.
Afterbirth Dictionary A - noun The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
Aftercast Dictionary A - noun A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
Afterclap Dictionary A - noun An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
Aftercrop Dictionary A - noun A second crop or harvest in the same year.
After damp Dictionary A - An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
After-dinner Dictionary A - noun The time just after dinner.
After-eatage Dictionary A - noun Aftergrass.
Aftereye Dictionary A - verb transitive To look after.
Aftergame Dictionary A - noun A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.
After-glow Dictionary A - noun A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
Aftergrass Dictionary A - noun The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
Aftergrowth Dictionary A - noun A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.
Afterguard Dictionary A - noun The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails.
After-image Dictionary A - noun The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
Afterings Dictionary A - noun plural The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
Aftermath Dictionary A - noun A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
After-mentioned Dictionary A - adjective Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
Aftermost Dictionary A - adjective superlative Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
Afternoon Dictionary A - noun The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
After-note Dictionary A - noun One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
Afterpains Dictionary A - noun plural The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
Afterpiece Dictionary A - noun A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
After-sails Dictionary A - noun The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
Aftershaft Dictionary A - noun The hypoptilum.
Aftertaste Dictionary A - noun A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
Afterthought Dictionary A - noun Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
Afterwards Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Afterward.
Afterward Dictionary A - adverb At a later or succeeding time.
Afterwise Dictionary A - adjective Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
After-wit Dictionary A - noun Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
After-witted Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
Aftmost Dictionary A - adjective Nearest the stern.
Aftward Dictionary A - adverb Toward the stern.
Aga Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Agha.
Agha Dictionary A - noun In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.
Again Dictionary A - adverb In return, back; as, bring us word again.
Agains Dictionary A - preposition Against; also, towards (in order to meet).
Againbuy Dictionary A - verb transitive To redeem.
Againsay Dictionary A - verb transitive To gainsay.
Against Dictionary A - preposition Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
Againstand Dictionary A - verb transitive To withstand.
Againward Dictionary A - adverb Back again.
Agalactia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Agalaxy.
Agalaxy Dictionary A - noun Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
Agalactous Dictionary A - adjective Lacking milk to suckle with.
Agal-agal Dictionary A - noun Same as Agar-agar.
Agalloch Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Agallochum.
Agallochum Dictionary A - noun A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.
Agalmatolite Dictionary A - noun A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.
Agama Dictionary A - noun A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
Agamis Dictionary A - pleural of Agami.
Agami Dictionary A - noun A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.
Agamic Dictionary A - adjective Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.
Agamically Dictionary A - adverb In an agamic manner.
Agamist Dictionary A - noun An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage.
Agamogenesis Dictionary A - noun Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
Agamogenetic Dictionary A - noun Reproducing or produced without sexual union.
Agamous Dictionary A - adjective Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.
Aganglionic Dictionary A - adjective Without ganglia.
Agape Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
Agapae Dictionary A - pleural of Agape.
Agar-agar Dictionary A - noun A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).
Agaric Dictionary A - noun A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
Agasp Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a state of gasping.
Agast Dictionary A - verb transitive Alt. of Aghast.
Aghast Dictionary A - verb transitive To affright; to terrify.
Agastric Dictionary A - adjective Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.
Agate Dictionary A - adverb On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
Agatiferous Dictionary A - adjective Containing or producing agates.
Agatine Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or like, agate.
Agatize Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
Agaty Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
Agave Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
Agazed Dictionary A - past participle Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
Age Dictionary A - noun The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
Aged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Age.
Aging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Age.
Agedly Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of an aged person.
Agedness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being aged; oldness.
Ageless Dictionary A - adjective Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
Agen Dictionary A - adverb & preposition See Again.
Agencies Dictionary A - pleural of Agency.
Agency Dictionary A - noun The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Agend Dictionary A - noun See Agendum.
Agenda Dictionary A - pleural of Agendum.
Agendum Dictionary A - noun Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.
Agenesic Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by sterility; infecund.
Agenesis Dictionary A - noun Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Agennesis Dictionary A - noun Impotence; sterility.
Agent Dictionary A - adjective Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
Agential Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
Agentship Dictionary A - noun Agency.
Ageratum Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
Aggeneration Dictionary A - noun The act of producing in addition.
Agger Dictionary A - noun An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Aggerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To heap up.
Aggeration Dictionary A - noun A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand.
Aggerose Dictionary A - adjective In heaps; full of heaps.
Aggest Dictionary A - verb transitive To heap up.
Agglomerated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Agglomerate.
Agglomerating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Agglomerate.
Agglomerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Agglomeration Dictionary A - noun The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
Agglomerative Dictionary A - adjective Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Agglutinant Dictionary A - adjective Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
Agglutinated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Agglutinate.
Agglutinating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Agglutinate.
Agglutinate Dictionary A - verb transitive To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Agglutination Dictionary A - noun The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Agglutinative Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Aggrace Dictionary A - verb transitive To favor; to grace.
Aggrandizable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being aggrandized.
Aggrandization Dictionary A - noun Aggrandizement.
Aggrandized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggrandize.
Aggrandizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggrandize.
Aggrandize Dictionary A - verb transitive To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
Aggrandizement Dictionary A - noun The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
Aggrandizer Dictionary A - noun One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
Aggrate Dictionary A - adjective To please.
Aggravated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggravate.
Aggravating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggravate.
Aggravate Dictionary A - verb transitive To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
Aggravatingly Dictionary A - adverb In an aggravating manner.
Aggravation Dictionary A - noun The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
Aggravative Dictionary A - adjective Tending to aggravate.
Aggregated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggregate.
Aggregating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggregate.
Aggregate Dictionary A - verb transitive To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil.".
Aggregately Dictionary A - adverb Collectively; in mass.
Aggregation Dictionary A - noun The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Aggregative Dictionary A - adjective Taken together; collective.
Aggregator Dictionary A - noun One who aggregates.
Aggrege Dictionary A - verb transitive To make heavy; to aggravate.
Aggressed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggress.
Aggressing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggress.
Aggress Dictionary A - intransitive verb To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
Aggression Dictionary A - noun The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power.".
Aggressive Dictionary A - adjective Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Aggressor Dictionary A - noun The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
Aggrievance Dictionary A - noun Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
Aggrieved Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggrieve.
Aggrieving Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggrieve.
Aggrieve Dictionary A - verb transitive To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.
Aggrouped Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aggroup.
Aggrouping Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aggroup.
Aggroup Dictionary A - verb transitive To bring together in a group; to group.
Aggroupment Dictionary A - noun Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
Aggry Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aggri.
Aggri Dictionary A - adjective Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
Agible Dictionary A - adjective Possible to be done; practicable.
Agile Dictionary A - adjective Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Agilely Dictionary A - adverb In an agile manner; nimbly.
Agileness Dictionary A - noun Agility; nimbleness.
Agility Dictionary A - noun The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
Agios Dictionary A - pleural of Agio.
Agio Dictionary A - noun The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Agiotage Dictionary A - noun Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Agist Dictionary A - verb transitive To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
Agistator Dictionary A - noun See Agister.
Agister Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Agistor.
Agistor Dictionary A - noun Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Agistment Dictionary A - noun Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
Agitable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.
Agitated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Agitate.
Agitating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Agitate.
Agitate Dictionary A - verb transitive To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
Agitatedly Dictionary A - adverb In an agitated manner.
Agitation Dictionary A - noun The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
Agitative Dictionary A - adjective Tending to agitate.
Agitato Dictionary A - adjective Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
Agitator Dictionary A - noun One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
Agleam Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Gleaming; as, faces agleam.
Aglet Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Aiglet.
Aiglet Dictionary A - noun A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.
Agley Dictionary A - adverb Aside; askew.
Aglimmer Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a glimmering state.
Aglitter Dictionary A - adverb & adjective Glittering; in a glitter.
Aglossal Dictionary A - adjective Without tongue; tongueless.
Aglow Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
Aglutition Dictionary A - noun Inability to swallow.
Agminal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train.
Agminate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Agminated.
Agminated Dictionary A - adjective Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
Agnail Dictionary A - noun A corn on the toe or foot.
Agnate Dictionary A - adjective Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.
Agnatic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
Agnation Dictionary A - noun Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
Agnition Dictionary A - noun Acknowledgment.
Agnize Dictionary A - verb transitive To recognize; to acknowledge.
Agnoiology Dictionary A - noun The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.
Agnomen Dictionary A - noun An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.
Agnominate Dictionary A - verb transitive To name.
Agnomination Dictionary A - noun A surname.
Agnostic Dictionary A - adjective Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
Agnosticism Dictionary A - noun That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Agnuses Dictionary A - pleural of Agnus.
Agni Dictionary A - pleural of Agnus.
Agnus Dictionary A - noun Agnus Dei.
Agnus castus Dictionary A - A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree.
Agnus Dei Dictionary A - A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
Ago Dictionary A - adjective & adverb Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
Agog Dictionary A - adjective & adverb In eager desire; eager; astir.
Agoing Dictionary A - adverb In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
Agones Dictionary A - pleural of Agon.
Agon Dictionary A - noun A contest for a prize at the public games.
Agone Dictionary A - adjective & adverb Ago.
Agonic Dictionary A - adjective Not forming an angle.
Agonism Dictionary A - noun Contention for a prize; a contest.
Agonist Dictionary A - noun One who contends for the prize in public games.
Agonistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Agonistical.
Agonistical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
Agonistically Dictionary A - adverb In an agonistic manner.
Agonistics Dictionary A - noun The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.
Agonized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Agonize.
Agonizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Agonize.
Agonize Dictionary A - intransitive verb To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
Agonizingly Dictionary A - adverb With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
Agonothete Dictionary A - noun An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
Agonothetic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
Agonies Dictionary A - pleural of Agony.
Agony Dictionary A - noun Violent contest or striving.
Agood Dictionary A - adverb In earnest; heartily.
Agora Dictionary A - noun An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Agouara Dictionary A - noun The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.
Agouta Dictionary A - noun A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
Agouti Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Agouty.
Agouty Dictionary A - noun A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
Agrace Dictionary A - noun & verb See Aggrace.
Agraffe Dictionary A - noun A hook or clasp.
Agrammatist Dictionary A - noun A illiterate person.
Agraphia Dictionary A - noun The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
Agraphic Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by agraphia.
Agrappes Dictionary A - noun plural Hooks and eyes for armor, etc.
Agrarian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
Agrarianism Dictionary A - noun An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
Agrarianize Dictionary A - verb transitive To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.
Agre Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Agree.
Agree Dictionary A - adverb In good part; kindly.
Agreed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Agree.
Agreeing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Agree.
Agreeability Dictionary A - noun Easiness of disposition.
Agreeable Dictionary A - adjective Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Agreeableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
Agreeably Dictionary A - adverb In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
Agreeingly Dictionary A - adverb In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.
Agreement Dictionary A - noun State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
Agreer Dictionary A - noun One who agrees.
Agrestic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
Agrestical Dictionary A - adjective Agrestic.
Agricolation Dictionary A - noun Agriculture.
Agricolist Dictionary A - noun A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.
Agricultor Dictionary A - noun An agriculturist; a farmer.
Agricultural Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
Agriculturalist Dictionary A - noun An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.).
Agriculture Dictionary A - noun The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
Agriculturism Dictionary A - noun Agriculture.
Agriculturist Dictionary A - noun One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
Agrief Dictionary A - adverb In grief; amiss.
Agrimony Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants of the Rose family.
Agrin Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In the act of grinning.
Agriologist Dictionary A - noun One versed or engaged in agriology.
Agriology Dictionary A - noun Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
Agrise Dictionary A - intransitive verb To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
Agrom Dictionary A - noun A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.
Agronomic Dictionary A - Alt. of Agronomical.
Agronomical Dictionary A - Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.
Agronomics Dictionary A - noun The science of the distribution and management of land.
Agronomist Dictionary A - noun One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
Agronomy Dictionary A - noun The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
Agrope Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In the act of groping.
Agrostis Dictionary A - noun A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
Agrostographic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Agrostographical.
Agrostographical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to agrostography.
Agrostography Dictionary A - noun A description of the grasses.
Agrostologic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Agrostological.
Agrostological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to agrostology.
Agrostologist Dictionary A - noun One skilled in agrostology.
Agrostology Dictionary A - noun That part of botany which treats of the grasses.
Aground Dictionary A - adverb & adjective On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
Agroupment Dictionary A - noun See Aggroupment.
Agrypnotic Dictionary A - noun Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.
Aguardiente Dictionary A - noun A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
Ague Dictionary A - noun An acute fever.
Agued Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ague.
Aguilt Dictionary A - verb transitive To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.
Aguise Dictionary A - noun Dress.
Aguish Dictionary A - adjective Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.
Agush Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a gushing state.
Agynous Dictionary A - adjective Without female organs; male.
Ah Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.
Aha Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.
Ahead Dictionary A - adverb In or to the front; in advance; onward.
Aheap Dictionary A - adverb In a heap; huddled together.
Aheight Dictionary A - adverb Aloft; on high.
Ahem Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.
Ahey Dictionary A - interjection Hey; ho.
Ahigh Dictionary A - adverb On high.
Ahold Dictionary A - adverb Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.
Ahorseback Dictionary A - adverb On horseback.
Ahoy Dictionary A - interjection A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy.".
Ahriman Dictionary A - noun The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.
Ahu Dictionary A - noun The Asiatic gazelle.
Ahull Dictionary A - adverb With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.
Ahungered Dictionary A - adjective Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Ais Dictionary A - pleural of Ai.
Ai Dictionary A - noun The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.
Aiblins Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Ablins.
Aich's metal Dictionary A - A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.
Aided Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aid.
Aiding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aid.
Aid Dictionary A - verb transitive To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
Aidance Dictionary A - noun Aid.
Aidant Dictionary A - adjective Helping; helpful; supplying aid.
Aids-de-camp Dictionary A - pleural of Aid-de-camp.
Aid-de-camp Dictionary A - noun An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
Aider Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, aids.
Aidful Dictionary A - adjective Helpful.
Aidless Dictionary A - adjective Helpless; without aid.
Aid-major Dictionary A - noun The adjutant of a regiment.
Aiel Dictionary A - noun See Ayle.
Aigre Dictionary A - adjective Sour.
Aigremore Dictionary A - noun Charcoal prepared for making powder.
Aigret Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Aigrette.
Aigrette Dictionary A - noun The small white European heron. See Egret.
Aiguille Dictionary A - noun A needle-shaped peak.
Aiguillette Dictionary A - noun A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.
Aigulet Dictionary A - noun See Aglet.
Ailed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ail.
Ailing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ail.
Ail Dictionary A - verb transitive To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.
Ailanthus Dictionary A - noun Same as Ailantus.
Ailantus Dictionary A - noun A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom.
Ailette Dictionary A - noun A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.
Ailment Dictionary A - noun Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
Ailuroidea Dictionary A - noun plural A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.
Aimed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Aim.
Aiming Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Aim.
Aim Dictionary A - intransitive verb To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
Aimer Dictionary A - noun One who aims, directs, or points.
Aimless Dictionary A - adjective Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.
Aino Dictionary A - noun One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.
Ain't Dictionary A - A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. Colloq. or illiterate speech. See An't.
Air Dictionary A - noun The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
Aired Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Air.
Airing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Air.
Air bed Dictionary A - A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
Air bladder Dictionary A - An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.
Air brake Dictionary A - A railway brake operated by condensed air.
Air-built Dictionary A - adjective Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
Air cell Dictionary A - A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
Air chamber Dictionary A - A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
Air cock Dictionary A - A faucet to allow escape of air.
Air-drawn Dictionary A - adjective Drawn in air; imaginary.
Air drill Dictionary A - A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
Air engine Dictionary A - An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
Airer Dictionary A - noun One who exposes to the air.
Air gas Dictionary A - See under Gas.
Air gun Dictionary A - A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.
Air hole Dictionary A - A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.
Airily Dictionary A - adverb In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
Airiness Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
Air jacket Dictionary A - A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.
Airless Dictionary A - adjective Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
Air level Dictionary A - Spirit level. See Level.
Airlike Dictionary A - adjective Resembling air.
Airling Dictionary A - noun A thoughtless, gay person.
Airometer Dictionary A - noun A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.
Air pipe Dictionary A - A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.
Air plant Dictionary A - A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.
Air poise Dictionary A - An instrument to measure the weight of air.
Air pump Dictionary A - A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.
Air sac Dictionary A - One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.
Air shaft Dictionary A - A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
Air-slacked Dictionary A - adjective Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
Air stove Dictionary A - A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.
Air-tight Dictionary A - adjective So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.
Air vessel Dictionary A - A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels.
Airward Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Airwards.
Airwards Dictionary A - adverb Toward the air; upward.
Airy Dictionary A - adjective Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
Aisle Dictionary A - noun A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
Aisled Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with an aisle or aisles.
Aisless Dictionary A - adjective Without an aisle.
Ait Dictionary A - noun An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
Aitch Dictionary A - noun The letter h or H.
Aitchbone Dictionary A - noun The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone.
Aitiology Dictionary A - noun See Aetiology.
Ajar Dictionary A - adverb Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.
Ajog Dictionary A - adverb On the jog.
Ajutage Dictionary A - noun A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.
Ake Dictionary A - noun & verb See Ache.
Akene Dictionary A - noun Same as Achene.
Aketon Dictionary A - noun See Acton.
Akimbo Dictionary A - adjective With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Akin Dictionary A - adjective Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
Akinesia Dictionary A - noun Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.
Akinesic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to akinesia.
Aknee Dictionary A - adverb On the knee.
Aknow Dictionary A - Earlier form of Acknow.
Al Dictionary A - adjective All.
Al- Dictionary A - prefix All; wholly; completely; as, almighty, almost.
Alae Dictionary A - pleural of Ala.
Ala Dictionary A - noun A winglike organ, or part.
Alabama period Dictionary A - A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
Alabaster Dictionary A - noun A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
Alabastrian Dictionary A - adjective Alabastrine.
Alabastrine Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.
Alabastra Dictionary A - pleural of Alabastrum.
Alabastrum Dictionary A - noun A flower bud.
Alack Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation expressive of sorrow.
Alackaday Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation expressing sorrow.
Alacrify Dictionary A - verb transitive To rouse to action; to inspirit.
Alacrious Dictionary A - adjective Brisk; joyously active; lively.
Alacriously Dictionary A - adverb With alacrity; briskly.
Alacriousness Dictionary A - noun Alacrity.
Alacrity Dictionary A - noun A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
Aladinist Dictionary A - noun One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.
Alalonga Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alilonghi.
Alilonghi Dictionary A - noun The tunny. See Albicore.
Alamire Dictionary A - noun The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.
Alamodality Dictionary A - noun The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.
Alamode Dictionary A - adverb & adjective According to the fashion or prevailing mode.
Alamort Dictionary A - adjective To the death; mortally.
Alan Dictionary A - noun A wolfhound.
Aland Dictionary A - adverb On land; to the land; ashore.
Alanine Dictionary A - noun A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.
Alantin Dictionary A - noun See Inulin.
Alar Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or having, wings.
Alarm Dictionary A - noun A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Alarmed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alarm.
Alarming Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alarm.
Alarmable Dictionary A - adjective Easily alarmed or disturbed.
Alarmedly Dictionary A - adverb In an alarmed manner.
Alarmist Dictionary A - noun One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
Alarum Dictionary A - noun See Alarm.
Alary Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.
Alas Dictionary A - interjection An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
Alate Dictionary A - adverb Lately; of late.
Alated Dictionary A - adjective Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.
Alatern Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alaternus.
Alaternus Dictionary A - noun An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.
Alation Dictionary A - noun The state of being winged.
Alaunt Dictionary A - noun See Alan.
Alb Dictionary A - noun A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.
Albacore Dictionary A - noun See Albicore.
Alban Dictionary A - noun A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.
Albanian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.
Albata Dictionary A - noun A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.
Albatross Dictionary A - noun A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.
Albe Dictionary A - conjecture Alt. of Albee.
Albee Dictionary A - conjecture Although; albeit.
Albedo Dictionary A - noun Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.
Albeit Dictionary A - conjecture Even though; although; notwithstanding.
Albertite Dictionary A - noun A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick.
Albertype Dictionary A - noun A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
Albescence Dictionary A - noun The act of becoming white; whitishness.
Albescent Dictionary A - adjective Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
Albicant Dictionary A - adjective Growing or becoming white.
Albication Dictionary A - noun The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.
Albicore Dictionary A - noun A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.
Albification Dictionary A - noun The act or process of making white.
Albigenses Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Albigeois.
Albigeois Dictionary A - noun plural A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
Albigensian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.
Albiness Dictionary A - noun A female albino.
Albinism Dictionary A - noun The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.
Albinistic Dictionary A - adjective Affected with albinism.
Albinos Dictionary A - pleural of Albino.
Albino Dictionary A - noun A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
Albinoism Dictionary A - noun The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.
Albinotic Dictionary A - adjective Affected with albinism.
Albion Dictionary A - noun An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.
Albite Dictionary A - noun A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.
Albolith Dictionary A - noun A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
Alborak Dictionary A - noun The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.
Albugineous Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.
Albugines Dictionary A - pleural of Albugo.
Albugo Dictionary A - noun Same as Leucoma.
Album Dictionary A - noun A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
Albumen Dictionary A - noun The white of an egg.
Albumenized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Albumenize.
Albumenizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Albumenize.
Albumenize Dictionary A - verb transitive To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.
Album Graecum Dictionary A - Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.
Albumin Dictionary A - noun A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.
Albuminate Dictionary A - noun A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.
Albuminiferous Dictionary A - adjective Supplying albumen.
Albuminimeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
Albuminin Dictionary A - noun The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.
Albuminiparous Dictionary A - adjective Producing albumin.
Albuminoid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling albumin.
Albuminoidal Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of an albuminoid.
Albuminose Dictionary A - noun A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
Albuminous Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Albuminose.
Albuminuria Dictionary A - noun A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.
Albumose Dictionary A - noun A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.
Alburn Dictionary A - noun The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.
Alburnous Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.
Alburnum Dictionary A - noun The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.
Albyn Dictionary A - noun Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.
Alcade Dictionary A - noun Same as Alcaid.
Alcahest Dictionary A - noun Same as Alkahest.
Alcaic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
Alcaid Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alcayde.
Alcayde Dictionary A - noun A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.
Alcalde Dictionary A - noun A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.
Alcalimeter Dictionary A - noun See Alkalimeter.
Alcanna Dictionary A - noun An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.
Alcarrazas Dictionary A - pleural of Alcarraza.
Alcarraza Dictionary A - noun A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.
Alcazar Dictionary A - noun A fortress; also, a royal palace.
Alcedo Dictionary A - noun A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.
Alchemic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alchemical.
Alchemical Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to alchemy.
Alchemically Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of alchemy.
Alchemist Dictionary A - noun One who practices alchemy.
Alchemistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alchemistical.
Alchemistical Dictionary A - adjective Relating to or practicing alchemy.
Alchemistry Dictionary A - noun Alchemy.
Alchemize Dictionary A - verb transitive To change by alchemy; to transmute.
Alchemy Dictionary A - noun An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.
Alchymic Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alchymy.
Alchymist Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alchymy.
Alchymistic Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alchymy.
Alchymy Dictionary A - noun See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.
Alco Dictionary A - noun A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.
Alcoate Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alcohate.
Alcohate Dictionary A - noun Shortened forms of Alcoholate.
Alcohol Dictionary A - noun An impalpable powder.
Alcoholate Dictionary A - noun A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.
Alcoholature Dictionary A - noun An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.
Alcoholic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
Alcoholism Dictionary A - noun A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
Alcoholization Dictionary A - noun The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.
Alcoholized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alcoholize.
Alcoholizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alcoholize.
Alcoholize Dictionary A - verb transitive To reduce to a fine powder.
Alcoholometer Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alcoholmeter.
Alcoholmeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.
Alcoholometric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alcoholmetrical.
Alcoholometrical Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alcoholmetrical.
Alcoholmetrical Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry.
Alcoholometry Dictionary A - noun The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
Alcohometer Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alcohometric.
Alcohometric Dictionary A - adjective Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.
Alcoometry Dictionary A - noun See Alcoholometry.
Alcoran Dictionary A - noun The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).
Alcoranic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Koran.
Alcoranist Dictionary A - noun One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.
Alcove Dictionary A - noun A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.
Alcyon Dictionary A - noun See Halcyon.
Alcyonacea Dictionary A - noun plural A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.
Alcyonaria Dictionary A - noun plural One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.
Alcyones Dictionary A - noun plural The kingfishers.
Alcyonic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.
Alcyonium Dictionary A - noun A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.
Alcyonoid Dictionary A - adjective Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.
Alday Dictionary A - adverb Continually.
Aldebaran Dictionary A - noun A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.
Aldehyde Dictionary A - noun A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Aldehydic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid.
Alder Dictionary A - noun A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.
Aller Dictionary A - adjective Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.
Alder-liefest Dictionary A - adjective Most beloved.
Aldermen Dictionary A - pleural of Alderman.
Alderman Dictionary A - noun A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
Aldermancy Dictionary A - noun The office of an alderman.
Aldermanic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
Aldermanity Dictionary A - noun Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen.
Aldermanlike Dictionary A - adjective Like or suited to an alderman.
Aldermanly Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
Aldermanry Dictionary A - noun The district or ward of an alderman.
Aldermanship Dictionary A - noun The condition, position, or office of an alderman.
Aldern Dictionary A - adjective Made of alder.
Alderney Dictionary A - noun One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.
Aldine Dictionary A - adjective An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.
Ale Dictionary A - noun An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
Aleak Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In a leaking condition.
Aleatory Dictionary A - adjective Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
Alebench Dictionary A - noun A bench in or before an alehouse.
Aleberry Dictionary A - noun A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.
Alecithal Dictionary A - adjective Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
Aleconner Dictionary A - noun Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. Also called aletaster..
Alecost Dictionary A - noun The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.
Alectorides Dictionary A - noun plural A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
Alectoromachy Dictionary A - noun Cockfighting.
Alectoromancy Dictionary A - noun See Alectryomancy.
Alectryom'achy Dictionary A - noun Cockfighting.
Alectryomancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten.
Alee Dictionary A - adverb On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.
Alegar Dictionary A - noun Sour ale; vinegar made of ale.
Aleger Dictionary A - adjective Gay; cheerful; sprightly.
Alegge Dictionary A - verb transitive To allay or alleviate; to lighten.
Alehoof Dictionary A - noun Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).
Alehouse Dictionary A - noun A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
Ale-knight Dictionary A - noun A pot companion.
Alemannic Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
Alembic Dictionary A - noun An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.
Alembroth Dictionary A - noun The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant.
Alen/on lace Dictionary A - See under Lace.
Alength Dictionary A - adverb At full length; lengthwise.
Alepidote Dictionary A - adjective Not having scales.
Alepole Dictionary A - noun A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.
Alert Dictionary A - adjective Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
Alertly Dictionary A - adverb In an alert manner; nimbly.
Alertness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Ale silver Dictionary A - A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
Alestake Dictionary A - noun A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush.".
Aletaster Dictionary A - noun See Aleconner.
Alethiology Dictionary A - noun The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence.
Alethoscope Dictionary A - noun An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
Aleuromancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by means of flour.
Aleurometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour.
Aleurone Dictionary A - noun An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
Aleuronic Dictionary A - adjective Having the nature of aleurone.
Aleutian Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aleutic.
Aleutic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Alevin Dictionary A - noun Young fish; fry.
Alew Dictionary A - noun Halloo.
Alewives Dictionary A - pleural of Alewife.
Alewife Dictionary A - noun A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Alexanders Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alisanders.
Alisanders Dictionary A - noun A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.
Alexandrian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
Alexandrine Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
Alexipharmac Dictionary A - adjective & noun Alt. of Alexipharmacal.
Alexipharmacal Dictionary A - adjective & noun Alexipharmic.
Alexipharmic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alexipharmical.
Alexipharmical Dictionary A - adjective Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.
Alexipyretic Dictionary A - adjective Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile.
Alexiteric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alexiterical.
Alexiterical Dictionary A - adjective Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
Alfa Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alfa grass.
Alfa grass Dictionary A - noun A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
Alfalfa Dictionary A - noun The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
Alfenide Dictionary A - noun An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
Alferes Dictionary A - noun An ensign; a standard bearer.
Alfet Dictionary A - noun A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Alfilaria Dictionary A - noun The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Alfione Dictionary A - noun An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
Alfresco Dictionary A - adverb & adjective In the open-air.
Algae Dictionary A - pleural of Alga.
Alga Dictionary A - noun A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.
Algal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or like, algae.
Algaroba Dictionary A - noun The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
Algarot Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Algaroth.
Algaroth Dictionary A - noun A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
Algarovilla Dictionary A - noun The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
Algate Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Algates.
Algates Dictionary A - adverb Always; wholly; everywhere.
Algazel Dictionary A - noun The true gazelle.
Algebra Dictionary A - noun That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
Algebraic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Algebraical.
Algebraical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.
Algebraically Dictionary A - adverb By algebraic process.
Algebraist Dictionary A - noun One versed in algebra.
Algebraize Dictionary A - verb transitive To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Algerian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Algeria.
Algerine Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.
Algid Dictionary A - adjective Cold; chilly.
Algidity Dictionary A - noun Chilliness; coldness.
Algidness Dictionary A - noun Algidity.
Algific Dictionary A - adjective Producing cold.
Algoid Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
Algol Dictionary A - noun A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Algological Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
Algologist Dictionary A - noun One learned about algae; a student of algology.
Algology Dictionary A - noun The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
Algonquin Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Algonkin.
Algonkin Dictionary A - noun One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
Algor Dictionary A - noun Cold; chilliness.
Algorism Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Algorithm.
Algorithm Dictionary A - noun The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
Algous Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
Alguazil Dictionary A - noun An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.
Algum Dictionary A - noun Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
Alhambra Dictionary A - noun The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Alhambraic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alhambresque.
Alhambresque Dictionary A - adjective Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
Alhenna Dictionary A - noun See Henna.
Alias Dictionary A - adverb Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
Aliases Dictionary A - pleural of Alias.
Alibi Dictionary A - noun The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Alibility Dictionary A - noun Quality of being alible.
Alible Dictionary A - adjective Nutritive; nourishing.
Alicant Dictionary A - noun A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
Alidade Dictionary A - noun The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument.
Alien Dictionary A - adjective Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Alienability Dictionary A - noun Capability of being alienated.
Alienable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Alienage Dictionary A - noun The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Alienate Dictionary A - adjective Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
Alienated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alienate.
Alienating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alienate.
Alienation Dictionary A - noun The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
Alienator Dictionary A - noun One who alienates.
Aliene Dictionary A - verb transitive To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Alienee Dictionary A - noun One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
Alienism Dictionary A - noun The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
Alienist Dictionary A - noun One who treats diseases of the mind.
Alienor Dictionary A - noun One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Aliethmoid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Aliethmoidal.
Aliethmoidal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Alife Dictionary A - adverb On my life; dearly.
Aliferous Dictionary A - adjective Having wings, winged; aligerous.
Aliform Dictionary A - adjective Wing-shaped; winglike.
Aligerous Dictionary A - adjective Having wings; winged.
Alighted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alight.
Alit Dictionary A - of Alight.
Alighting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alight.
Alight Dictionary A - intransitive verb To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
Align Dictionary A - verb transitive To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Alignment Dictionary A - noun The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
Alike Dictionary A - adjective Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
Alike-minded Dictionary A - adjective Like-minded.
Aliment Dictionary A - noun That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Alimental Dictionary A - adjective Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.
Alimentally Dictionary A - adverb So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.
Alimentariness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality.
Alimentary Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
Alimentation Dictionary A - noun The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
Alimentiveness Dictionary A - noun The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Alimonious Dictionary A - adjective Affording food; nourishing.
Alimony Dictionary A - noun Maintenance; means of living.
Alinasal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
Aline Dictionary A - verb transitive To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
Alineation Dictionary A - noun See Allineation.
Alinement Dictionary A - noun Same as Alignment.
Aliner Dictionary A - noun One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.
Alioth Dictionary A - noun A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
Aliped Dictionary A - adjective Wing-footed, as the bat.
Aliquant Dictionary A - adjective An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.
Aliquot Dictionary A - adjective An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
Aliseptal Dictionary A - adjective Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.
Alish Dictionary A - adjective Like ale; as, an alish taste.
Alisphenoid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alisphenoidal.
Alisphenoidal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
Alitrunk Dictionary A - noun The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Aliturgical Dictionary A - adjective Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered.
Aliunde Dictionary A - adverb & adjective From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.
Alive Dictionary A - adjective Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
Alizari Dictionary A - noun The madder of the Levant.
Alizarin Dictionary A - noun A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.
Alkahest Dictionary A - noun The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.
Alkalamide Dictionary A - noun One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.
Alkalescence Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alkalescency.
Alkalescency Dictionary A - noun A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.
Alkalescent Dictionary A - adjective Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.
Alkalis Dictionary A - pleural of Alkali.
Alkalies Dictionary A - pleural of Alkali.
Alkali Dictionary A - noun Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
Alkalifiable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
Alkalified Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alkalify.
Alkalifying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alkalify.
Alkalify Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
Alkalimeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.
Alkalimetric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alkalimetrical.
Alkalimetrical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.
Alkalimetry Dictionary A - noun The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
Alkaline Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.
Alkalinity Dictionary A - noun The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property.
Alkalious Dictionary A - adjective Alkaline.
Alkalizate Dictionary A - adjective Alkaline.
Alkalization Dictionary A - noun The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
Alkalized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alkalize.
Alkalizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alkalize.
Alkalize Dictionary A - verb transitive To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Alkaloid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alkaloidal.
Alkaloidal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
Alkanet Dictionary A - noun A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
Alkargen Dictionary A - noun Same as Cacodylic acid.
Alkarsin Dictionary A - noun A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.
Alkazar Dictionary A - See Alcazar.
Alkekengi Dictionary A - noun An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato.
Alkermes Dictionary A - noun A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.
Alkoran Dictionary A - noun The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.
Alkoranic Dictionary A - adjective Same as Alcoranic.
Alkoranist Dictionary A - noun Same as Alcoranist.
All Dictionary A - adjective The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us).
Alla breve Dictionary A - With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /.
Allah Dictionary A - noun The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.
All-a-mort Dictionary A - adjective See Alamort.
Allanite Dictionary A - noun A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.
Allantoic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.
Allantoid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Allantoidal.
Allantoidal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the allantois.
Allantoidea Dictionary A - noun plural The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Allantoin Dictionary A - noun A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.
Allantois Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Allantoid.
Allatrate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To bark as a dog.
Allayed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allay.
Allaying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allay.
Allay Dictionary A - verb transitive To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
Allayer Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, allays.
Allayment Dictionary A - noun An allaying; that which allays; mitigation.
Allecret Dictionary A - noun A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.
Allect Dictionary A - verb transitive To allure; to entice.
Allectation Dictionary A - noun Enticement; allurement.
Allective Dictionary A - adjective Alluring.
Alledge Dictionary A - verb transitive See Allege.
Allegation Dictionary A - noun The act of alleging or positively asserting.
Alleged Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allege.
Alleging Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allege.
Allege Dictionary A - verb transitive To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
Allegeable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being alleged or affirmed.
Allegeance Dictionary A - noun Allegation.
Allegement Dictionary A - noun Allegation.
Alleger Dictionary A - noun One who affirms or declares.
Allegge Dictionary A - verb transitive See Alegge and Allay.
Allegiance Dictionary A - noun The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
Allegiant Dictionary A - adjective Loyal.
Allegoric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Allegorical.
Allegorical Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.
Allegorist Dictionary A - noun One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
Allegorization Dictionary A - noun The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
Allegorized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allegorize.
Allegorizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allegorize.
Allegorize Dictionary A - verb transitive To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
Allegorizer Dictionary A - noun One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
Allegories Dictionary A - pleural of Allegory.
Allegory Dictionary A - noun A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
Allegresse Dictionary A - noun Joy; gladsomeness.
Allegretto Dictionary A - adjective Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro.
Allegro Dictionary A - adjective Brisk, lively.
Alleluia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alleluiah.
Alleluiah Dictionary A - noun An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.
Allemande Dictionary A - noun A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
Allemannic Dictionary A - adjective See Alemannic.
Allenarly Dictionary A - adverb Solely; only.
Allerion Dictionary A - noun Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
Alleviated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alleviate.
Alleviating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alleviate.
Alleviate Dictionary A - verb transitive To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
Alleviation Dictionary A - noun The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
Alleviative Dictionary A - adjective Tending to alleviate.
Alleviator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, alleviates.
Alleviatory Dictionary A - adjective Alleviative.
Alleys Dictionary A - pleural of Alley.
Alley Dictionary A - noun A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
Alleyed Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with alleys; forming an alley.
Alleyway Dictionary A - noun An alley.
All Fools' Day Dictionary A - The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced.
Allfours Dictionary A - A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game.".
All fours Dictionary A - All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person.
All hail Dictionary A - interjection All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.
All-hail Dictionary A - verb transitive To salute; to greet.
Allhallond Dictionary A - noun Allhallows.
Allhallow Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Allhallows.
Allhallows Dictionary A - noun All the saints (in heaven).
Allhallow eve Dictionary A - The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.
Allhallowmas Dictionary A - noun The feast of All Saints.
Allhallown Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. Obs. "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").
Allhallowtide Dictionary A - noun The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.
Allheal Dictionary A - noun A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.
Alliable Dictionary A - adjective Able to enter into alliance.
Alliaceous Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.
Alliance Dictionary A - noun The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
Alliant Dictionary A - noun An ally; a confederate.
Allice Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Allis.
Allis Dictionary A - noun The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.
Alliciency Dictionary A - noun Attractive power; attractiveness.
Allicient Dictionary A - adjective That attracts; attracting.
Allied Dictionary A - adjective United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
Alligate Dictionary A - verb transitive To tie; to unite by some tie.
Alligation Dictionary A - noun The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached.
Alligator Dictionary A - noun A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
Allignment Dictionary A - noun See Alignment.
Allineate Dictionary A - verb transitive To align.
Allineation Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alineation.
Allision Dictionary A - noun The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
Alliteral Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
Alliterate Dictionary A - verb transitive To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
Alliteration Dictionary A - noun The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -.
Alliterative Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry.
Alliterator Dictionary A - noun One who alliterates.
Allium Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
Allmouth Dictionary A - noun The angler.
Allness Dictionary A - noun Totality; completeness.
Allnight Dictionary A - noun Light, fuel, or food for the whole night.
Allocate Dictionary A - verb transitive To distribute or assign; to allot.
Allocation Dictionary A - noun The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
Allocatur Dictionary A - noun Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
Allochroic Dictionary A - adjective Changeable in color.
Allochroite Dictionary A - noun See Garnet.
Allochroous Dictionary A - adjective Changing color.
Allocution Dictionary A - noun The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
Allod Dictionary A - noun See Allodium.
Allodial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
Allodialism Dictionary A - noun The allodial system.
Allodialist Dictionary A - noun One who holds allodial land.
Allodially Dictionary A - adverb By allodial tenure.
Allodiary Dictionary A - noun One who holds an allodium.
Allodium Dictionary A - noun Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud.
Allogamous Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by allogamy.
Allogamy Dictionary A - noun Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
Allogeneous Dictionary A - adjective Different in nature or kind.
Allograph Dictionary A - noun A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
Allomerism Dictionary A - noun Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
Allomerous Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by allomerism.
Allomorph Dictionary A - noun Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.
Allomorphic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to allomorphism.
Allomorphism Dictionary A - noun The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.
Allonge Dictionary A - verb A thrust or pass; a lunge.
Allonym Dictionary A - noun The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.
Allonymous Dictionary A - adjective Published under the name of some one other than the author.
Alloo Dictionary A - verb transitive / intransitive To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.
Allopath Dictionary A - noun An allopathist.
Allopathic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to allopathy.
Allopathically Dictionary A - adverb In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.
Allopathist Dictionary A - noun One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.
Allopathy Dictionary A - noun That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
Allophylic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Allophylian.
Allophylian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.
Alloquy Dictionary A - noun A speaking to another; an address.
Allotted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allot.
Allotting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allot.
Allot Dictionary A - verb transitive To distribute by lot.
Allotheism Dictionary A - noun The worship of strange gods.
Allotment Dictionary A - noun The act of allotting; assignment.
Allotriophagy Dictionary A - noun A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
Allotropic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Allotropical.
Allotropical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to allotropism.
Allotropicity Dictionary A - noun Allotropic property or nature.
Allotropism Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Allotropy.
Allotropy Dictionary A - noun The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.
Allotropize Dictionary A - verb transitive To change in physical properties but not in substance.
Allottable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being allotted.
Allottee Dictionary A - noun One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.
Allotter Dictionary A - noun One who allots.
Allottery Dictionary A - noun Allotment.
Allowed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allow.
Allowing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allow.
Allow Dictionary A - verb transitive To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
Allowable Dictionary A - adjective Praiseworthy; laudable.
Allowableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Allowably Dictionary A - adverb In an allowable manner.
Allowance Dictionary A - noun Approval; approbation.
Allowancing Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allowance.
Allowedly Dictionary A - adverb By allowance; admittedly.
Allower Dictionary A - noun An approver or abettor.
Alloxan Dictionary A - noun An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.
Alloxanate Dictionary A - noun A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Alloxanic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.
Alloxantin Dictionary A - noun A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.
Alloy Dictionary A - verb transitive Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
Alloyed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alloy.
Alloying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alloy.
Alloyage Dictionary A - noun The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
All-possessed Dictionary A - adjective Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild.
All Saints Dictionary A - Alt. of All Saints'.
All Saints' Dictionary A - The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
All Souls' Day Dictionary A - The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.
Allspice Dictionary A - noun The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
Allthing Dictionary A - adverb Altogether.
Alluded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Allude.
Alluding Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allude.
Allude Dictionary A - intransitive verb To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
Allumette Dictionary A - noun A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.
Alluminor Dictionary A - noun An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
Allurance Dictionary A - noun Allurement.
Alluring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Allure.
Allure Dictionary A - verb transitive To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
Allurement Dictionary A - noun The act alluring; temptation; enticement.
Allurer Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, allures.
Allusion Dictionary A - noun A figurative or symbolical reference.
Allusive Dictionary A - adjective Figurative; symbolical.
Allusively Dictionary A - adverb Figuratively Obs.; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.
Allusiveness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being allusive.
Allusory Dictionary A - adjective Allusive.
Alluvial Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
Alluvion Dictionary A - noun Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
Alluvious Dictionary A - noun Alluvial.
Alluviums Dictionary A - pleural of Alluvium.
Alluvia Dictionary A - pleural of Alluvium.
Alluvium Dictionary A - noun Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Allwhere Dictionary A - adverb Everywhere.
Allwork Dictionary A - noun Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.
Allying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ally.
Ally Dictionary A - verb transitive To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
Allies Dictionary A - pleural of Ally.
Allyl Dictionary A - noun An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.
Allylene Dictionary A - noun A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine.
Alma Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Almah.
Almah Dictionary A - noun Same as Alme.
Almacantar Dictionary A - noun Same as Almucantar.
Almadia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Almadie.
Almadie Dictionary A - noun A bark canoe used by the Africans.
Almagest Dictionary A - noun The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.
Almagra Dictionary A - noun A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.
Almain Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alman.
Almayne Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alman.
Alman Dictionary A - noun A German.
Alma Mater Dictionary A - A college or seminary where one is educated.
Almanac Dictionary A - noun A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
Almandine Dictionary A - noun The common red variety of garnet.
Alme Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Almeh.
Almeh Dictionary A - noun An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.
Almendron Dictionary A - noun The lofty Brazil-nut tree.
Almery Dictionary A - noun See Ambry.
Almesse Dictionary A - noun See Alms.
Almightful Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Almightiful.
Almightiful Dictionary A - adjective All-powerful; almighty.
Almightily Dictionary A - adverb With almighty power.
Almightiness Dictionary A - noun Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.
Almighty Dictionary A - adjective Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
Almner Dictionary A - noun An almoner.
Almond Dictionary A - noun The fruit of the almond tree.
Almond furnace Dictionary A - A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
Almondine Dictionary A - noun See Almandine.
Almoner Dictionary A - noun One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.
Almonership Dictionary A - noun The office of an almoner.
Almonries Dictionary A - pleural of Almonry.
Almonry Dictionary A - noun The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.
Almose Dictionary A - noun Alms.
Almost Dictionary A - adverb Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
Almry Dictionary A - noun See Almonry.
Alms Dictionary A - noun singular & plural Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
Almsdeed Dictionary A - noun An act of charity.
Almsfolk Dictionary A - noun Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
Almsgiver Dictionary A - noun A giver of alms.
Almsgiving Dictionary A - noun The giving of alms.
Almshouse Dictionary A - noun A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
Almsman Dictionary A - noun A recipient of alms.
Almucantar Dictionary A - noun A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.
Almuce Dictionary A - noun Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
Almude Dictionary A - noun A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.
Almug Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Algum.
Alnage Dictionary A - noun Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.
Alnager Dictionary A - noun A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.
Aloes Dictionary A - pleural of Aloe.
Aloe Dictionary A - noun The wood of the agalloch.
Aloes wood Dictionary A - See Agalloch.
Aloetic Dictionary A - adjective Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
Aloft Dictionary A - adverb On high; in the air; high above the ground.
Alogian Dictionary A - noun One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.
Alogy Dictionary A - noun Unreasonableness; absurdity.
Aloin Dictionary A - noun A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
Alomancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by means of salt.
Alone Dictionary A - adjective Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.
Alonely Dictionary A - adverb Only; merely; singly.
Aloneness Dictionary A - noun A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.
Along Dictionary A - adverb By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.
Alongshore Dictionary A - adverb Along the shore or coast.
Alongshoreman Dictionary A - noun See Longshoreman.
Alongside Dictionary A - adverb Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
Alongst Dictionary A - preparticle & adverb Along.
Aloof Dictionary A - noun Same as Alewife.
Aloofness Dictionary A - noun State of being aloof.
Alopecia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alopecy.
Alopecy Dictionary A - noun Loss of the hair; baldness.
Alopecist Dictionary A - noun A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.
Alose Dictionary A - verb transitive To praise.
Alouatte Dictionary A - noun One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.
Aloud Dictionary A - adverb With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
Alow Dictionary A - adverb Below; in a lower part.
Alp Dictionary A - noun A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
Alpaca Dictionary A - noun An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
Alpen Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Alps.
Alpenstock Dictionary A - noun A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
Alpestrine Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.
Alpha Dictionary A - noun The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
Alphabet Dictionary A - noun The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
Alphabetarian Dictionary A - noun A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
Alphabetic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Alphabetical.
Alphabetical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.
Alphabetically Dictionary A - adverb In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
Alphabetics Dictionary A - noun The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
Alphabetism Dictionary A - noun The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.
Alphabetize Dictionary A - verb transitive To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.
Al-phitomancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by means of barley meal.
Alphonsine Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284).
Alpigene Dictionary A - adjective Growing in Alpine regions.
Alpine Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
Alpinist Dictionary A - noun A climber of the Alps.
Alpist Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Alpia.
Alpia Dictionary A - noun The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
Alquifou Dictionary A - noun A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.
Already Dictionary A - adverb Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
Als Dictionary A - adverb Also.
Alsatian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Alsatia.
Al segno Dictionary A - A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /.
Alsike Dictionary A - noun A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.
Also Dictionary A - adverb & conjecture In like manner; likewise.
Alt Dictionary A - adjective & noun The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
Altaian Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Altaic.
Altaic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
Altar Dictionary A - noun A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Altarage Dictionary A - noun The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
Altarist Dictionary A - noun A chaplain.
Altarpiece Dictionary A - noun The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
Altarwise Dictionary A - adverb In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
Altazimuth Dictionary A - noun An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.
Altered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alter.
Altering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alter.
Alter Dictionary A - verb transitive To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
Alterability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
Alterable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being altered.
Alterableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
Alterably Dictionary A - adverb In an alterable manner.
Alterant Dictionary A - adjective Altering; gradually changing.
Alteration Dictionary A - noun The act of altering or making different.
Alterative Dictionary A - adjective Causing ateration.
Altercated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Altercate.
Altercating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Altercate.
Altercate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Altercation Dictionary A - noun Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Altercative Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
Alterity Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
Altern Dictionary A - adjective Acting by turns; alternate.
Alternacy Dictionary A - noun Alternateness; alternation.
Alternant Dictionary A - verb transitive Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
Alternate Dictionary A - adjective Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
Alternated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Alternate.
Alternating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Alternate.
Alternately Dictionary A - adverb In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Alternateness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
Alternation Dictionary A - noun The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
Alternative Dictionary A - adjective Offering a choice of two things.
Alternatively Dictionary A - adverb In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
Alternativeness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
Alternity Dictionary A - noun Succession by turns; alternation.
Althaea Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Althea.
Althea Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
Altheine Dictionary A - noun Asparagine.
Altho Dictionary A - conjecture Although.
Althorn Dictionary A - noun An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.
Although Dictionary A - conjecture Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Altiloquence Dictionary A - noun Lofty speech; pompous language.
Altiloquent Dictionary A - adjective High-sounding; pompous in speech.
Altimeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.
Altimetry Dictionary A - noun The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.
Altincar Dictionary A - noun See Tincal.
Altiscope Dictionary A - noun An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.
Altisonant Dictionary A - adjective High-sounding; lofty or pompous.
Altisonous Dictionary A - adjective Altisonant.
Altissimo Dictionary A - noun The part or notes situated above F in alt.
Altitude Dictionary A - noun Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.
Altitudinal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements.
Altitudinarian Dictionary A - adjective Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc.
Altivolant Dictionary A - adjective Flying high.
Altos Dictionary A - pleural of Alto.
Alto Dictionary A - noun Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
Altogether Dictionary A - adverb All together; conjointly.
Altometer Dictionary A - noun A theodolite.
Alto-relievo Dictionary A - noun Alto-rilievo.
Alto-rilievos Dictionary A - pleural of Alto-rilievo.
Alto-rilievo Dictionary A - noun High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.
Altrical Dictionary A - adjective Like the articles.
Altrices Dictionary A - noun plural Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces.
Altruism Dictionary A - noun Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness.
Altruist Dictionary A - noun One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.
Altruistic Dictionary A - adjective Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.
Aludel Dictionary A - noun One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation.
Alula Dictionary A - noun A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.
Alular Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the alula.
Alum Dictionary A - noun A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
Alumen Dictionary A - noun Alum.
Alumina Dictionary A - noun One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.
Aluminate Dictionary A - noun A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
Aluminated Dictionary A - adjective Combined with alumina.
Alumine Dictionary A - noun Alumina.
Aluminic Dictionary A - adjective Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate.
Aluminiferous Dictionary A - adjective Containing alum.
Aluminiform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of alumina.
Aluminium Dictionary A - noun The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
Aluminize Dictionary A - verb transitive To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum.
Aluminous Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
Aluminum Dictionary A - noun See Aluminium.
Alumish Dictionary A - adjective Somewhat like alum.
Alumnae Dictionary A - pleural of Alumna.
Alumna Dictionary A - noun feminine A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.
Alumni Dictionary A - pleural of Alumnus.
Alumnus Dictionary A - noun A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.
Alum root Dictionary A - A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.
Alum schist Dictionary A - Alt. of Alum shale.
Alum shale Dictionary A - A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
Alum stone Dictionary A - A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
Alunite Dictionary A - noun Alum stone.
Alunogen Dictionary A - noun A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.
Alure Dictionary A - noun A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.
Alutaceous Dictionary A - adjective Leathery.
Alutation Dictionary A - noun The tanning or dressing of leather.
Alvearies Dictionary A - pleural of Alveary.
Alveary Dictionary A - noun A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.
Alveated Dictionary A - adjective Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
Alveolar Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets.
Alveolary Dictionary A - adjective Alveolar.
Alveolate Dictionary A - adjective Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
Alveole Dictionary A - noun Same as Alveolus.
Alveoliform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.
Alveoli Dictionary A - pleural of Alveolus.
Alveolus Dictionary A - noun A cell in a honeycomb.
Alvei Dictionary A - pleural of Alveus.
Alveus Dictionary A - noun The channel of a river.
Alvine Dictionary A - adjective Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.
Alway Dictionary A - adverb Always.
Always Dictionary A - adverb At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.
Alyssum Dictionary A - noun A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.
Am Dictionary A - The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.
Amability Dictionary A - noun Lovableness.
Amacratic Dictionary A - adjective Amasthenic.
Amadavat Dictionary A - noun The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill.
Amadou Dictionary A - noun A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
Amain Dictionary A - noun With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
Amalgam Dictionary A - noun An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
Amalgama Dictionary A - noun Same as Amalgam.
Amalgamated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amalgamate.
Amalgamating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amalgamate.
Amalgamate Dictionary A - verb transitive To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
Amalgamation Dictionary A - noun The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
Amalgamative Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by amalgamation.
Amalgamator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.
Amalgamize Dictionary A - verb transitive To amalgamate.
Amandine Dictionary A - noun The vegetable casein of almonds.
Amanitine Dictionary A - noun The poisonous principle of some fungi.
Amanuenses Dictionary A - pleural of Amanuensis.
Amanuensis Dictionary A - noun A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Amaracus Dictionary A - noun A fragrant flower.
Amarant Dictionary A - noun Amaranth, 1.
Amarantaceous Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.
Amaranth Dictionary A - noun An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.
Amaranthine Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to amaranth.
Amaranthus Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amarantus.
Amarantus Dictionary A - noun Same as Amaranth.
Amarine Dictionary A - noun A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.
Amaritude Dictionary A - noun Bitterness.
Amaryllidaceous Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amaryllideous.
Amaryllideous Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.
Amaryllis Dictionary A - noun A pastoral sweetheart.
Amassed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amass.
Amassing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amass.
Amass Dictionary A - verb transitive To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.
Amassable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being amassed.
Amasser Dictionary A - noun One who amasses.
Amassette Dictionary A - noun An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.
Amassment Dictionary A - noun An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.
Amasthenic Dictionary A - adjective Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.
Amate Dictionary A - verb transitive To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.
Amateur Dictionary A - noun A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Amateurish Dictionary A - adjective In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.
Amateurism Dictionary A - noun The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.
Amateurship Dictionary A - noun The quality or character of an amateur.
Amative Dictionary A - adjective Full of love; amatory.
Amativeness Dictionary A - noun The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Amatorial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.
Amatorially Dictionary A - adverb In an amatorial manner.
Amatorian Dictionary A - adjective Amatory.
Amatorious Dictionary A - adjective Amatory.
Amatory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
Amaurosis Dictionary A - noun A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.
Amaurotic Dictionary A - adjective Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.
Amazed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amaze.
Amazing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amaze.
Amaze Dictionary A - verb transitive To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
Amazedly Dictionary A - adverb In amazement; with confusion or astonishment.
Amazedness Dictionary A - noun The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.
Amazeful Dictionary A - adjective Full of amazement.
Amazement Dictionary A - noun The condition of being amazed; bewilderment Obs.; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
Amazon Dictionary A - noun One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.
Amazonian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
Amazonite Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amazon stone.
Amazon stone Dictionary A - noun A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
Amb- Dictionary A - Alt. of Ambi-.
Ambi- Dictionary A - A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.
Ambages Dictionary A - noun plural A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Ambaginous Dictionary A - adjective Ambagious.
Ambagious Dictionary A - adjective Circumlocutory; circuitous.
Ambagitory Dictionary A - adjective Ambagious.
Ambassade Dictionary A - ambassade Alt. of Embassade.
Embassade Dictionary A - ambassade The mission of an ambassador.
Ambassador Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Embassador.
Embassador Dictionary A - noun A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
Ambassadorial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
Ambassadorship Dictionary A - noun The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.
Ambassadress Dictionary A - noun A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.
Ambassage Dictionary A - noun Same as Embassage.
Ambassy Dictionary A - noun See Embassy, the usual spelling.
Amber Dictionary A - noun A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
Ambered Dictionary A - particle particle & particle adjective of Amber.
Amber fish Dictionary A - A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.).
Ambergrease Dictionary A - noun See Ambergris.
Ambergris Dictionary A - noun A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212 Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
Amber room Dictionary A - A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans.
Amber seed Dictionary A - Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed.
Amber tree Dictionary A - A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.
Ambes-as Dictionary A - noun Ambs-ace.
Ambidexter Dictionary A - adjective Using both hands with equal ease.
Ambidexterity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
Ambidextral Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.
Ambidextrous Dictionary A - adjective Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
Ambidextrously Dictionary A - adverb In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.
Ambidextrousness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
Ambient Dictionary A - adjective Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.
Ambigenous Dictionary A - adjective Of two kinds.
Ambigu Dictionary A - noun An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.
Ambiguities Dictionary A - pleural of Ambiguity.
Ambiguity Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
Ambiguous Dictionary A - adjective Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.
Ambiguously Dictionary A - adverb In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Ambiguousness Dictionary A - noun Ambiguity.
Ambilevous Dictionary A - adjective Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter.
Ambiloquy Dictionary A - noun Doubtful or ambiguous language.
Ambiparous Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.
Ambit Dictionary A - noun Circuit or compass.
Ambition Dictionary A - noun The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Ambitionist Dictionary A - noun One excessively ambitious.
Ambitionless Dictionary A - adjective Devoid of ambition.
Ambitious Dictionary A - adjective Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Ambitiously Dictionary A - adverb In an ambitious manner.
Ambitiousness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
Ambitus Dictionary A - noun The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.
Ambled Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amble.
Ambling Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amble.
Amble Dictionary A - intransitive verb To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.
Ambler Dictionary A - noun A horse or a person that ambles.
Amblingly Dictionary A - adverb With an ambling gait.
Amblotic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to cause abortion.
Amblygon Dictionary A - noun An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle.
Amblygonal Dictionary A - adjective Obtuse-angled.
Amblyopia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amblyopy.
Amblyopy Dictionary A - noun Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.
Amblyopic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to amblyopy.
Amblypoda Dictionary A - noun plural A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Ambos Dictionary A - pleural of Ambo.
Ambo Dictionary A - noun A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.
Ambon Dictionary A - noun Same as Ambo.
Amboyna wood Dictionary A - A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.
Ambreate Dictionary A - noun A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.
Ambreic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.
Ambrein Dictionary A - noun A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.
Ambrite Dictionary A - noun A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.
Ambrose Dictionary A - noun A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.
Ambrosia Dictionary A - noun The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
Ambrosiac Dictionary A - adjective Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
Ambrosial Dictionary A - adjective Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
Ambrosially Dictionary A - adverb After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.
Ambrosian Dictionary A - adjective Ambrosial.
Ambrosin Dictionary A - noun An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.
Ambrotype Dictionary A - noun A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
Ambries Dictionary A - pleural of Ambry.
Ambry Dictionary A - noun In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.
Ambs-ace Dictionary A - noun Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.
Ambulacral Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
Ambulacriform Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of ambulacra.
Ambulacra Dictionary A - pleural of Ambulacrum.
Ambulacrum Dictionary A - noun One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
Ambulance Dictionary A - noun A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
Ambulant Dictionary A - adjective Walking; moving from place to place.
Ambulate Dictionary A - intransitive verb To walk; to move about.
Ambulation Dictionary A - noun The act of walking.
Ambulative Dictionary A - adjective Walking.
Ambulator Dictionary A - noun One who walks about; a walker.
Ambulatorial Dictionary A - adjective Ambulatory; fitted for walking.
Ambulatory Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
Ambulatories Dictionary A - pleural of Ambulatory.
Amburry Dictionary A - noun Same as Anbury.
Ambuscade Dictionary A - verb transitive A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.
Ambuscaded Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ambuscade.
Ambuscading Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ambuscade.
Ambuscado Dictionary A - noun Ambuscade.
Ambuscadoed Dictionary A - past participle Posted in ambush; ambuscaded.
Ambush Dictionary A - verb transitive A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
Ambushed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ambush.
Ambushing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ambush.
Ambusher Dictionary A - noun One lying in ambush.
Ambushment Dictionary A - verb transitive An ambush.
Ambustion Dictionary A - noun A burn or scald.
Amebean Dictionary A - adjective See Am/bean.
Ameer Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amir.
Amir Dictionary A - noun Emir.
Amel Dictionary A - verb transitive Enamel.
Amelcorn Dictionary A - noun A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.
Ameliorable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being ameliorated.
Ameliorated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ameliorate.
Ameliorating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ameliorate.
Ameliorate Dictionary A - verb transitive To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
Amelioration Dictionary A - noun The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
Ameliorative Dictionary A - adjective Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.
Ameliorator Dictionary A - noun One who ameliorates.
Amen Dictionary A - interjection , adverb , & noun An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.
Amenability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amenable; amenableness.
Amenable Dictionary A - adjective Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
Amenableness Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.
Amenably Dictionary A - adverb In an amenable manner.
Amenage Dictionary A - verb transitive To manage.
Amenance Dictionary A - noun Behavior; bearing.
Amended Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amend.
Amending Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amend.
Amend Dictionary A - verb transitive To change or modify in any way for the better.
Amendable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.
Amendatory Dictionary A - adjective Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.
Amende Dictionary A - noun A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.
Amender Dictionary A - noun One who amends.
Amendful Dictionary A - adjective Much improving.
Amendment Dictionary A - noun An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Amends Dictionary A - noun singular & plural Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
Amenities Dictionary A - pleural of Amenity.
Amenity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.
Amenorrhoea Dictionary A - noun Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
Amenorrhoeal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to amenorrhoea.
A mensa et thoro Dictionary A - A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife.
Ament Dictionary A - noun A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
Amentaceous Dictionary A - adjective Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
Amentia Dictionary A - noun Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Amentiferous Dictionary A - adjective Bearing catkins.
Amentiform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like a catkin.
Amenta Dictionary A - pleural of Amentum.
Amentum Dictionary A - noun Same as Ament.
Amenuse Dictionary A - verb transitive To lessen.
Amerced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amerce.
Amercing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amerce.
Amerce Dictionary A - verb transitive To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
Amerceable Dictionary A - adjective Liable to be amerced.
Amercement Dictionary A - noun The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. See Affeer..
Amercer Dictionary A - noun One who amerces.
Amerciament Dictionary A - noun Same as Amercement.
American Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
Americanism Dictionary A - noun Attachment to the United States.
Americanization Dictionary A - noun The process of Americanizing.
Americanizer Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Americanize.
Americanizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Americanize.
Americanize Dictionary A - verb transitive To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
Ames-ace Dictionary A - noun Same as Ambs-ace.
Amess Dictionary A - noun Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.
Ametabola Dictionary A - noun plural A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
Ametabolian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.
Ametabolic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Ametabolous.
Ametabolous Dictionary A - adjective Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
Amethodist Dictionary A - noun One without method; a quack.
Amethyst Dictionary A - A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.
Amethystine Dictionary A - adjective Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.
Ametropia Dictionary A - noun Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.
Amharic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic.
Amia Dictionary A - noun A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Amiability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.
Amiable Dictionary A - adjective Lovable; lovely; pleasing.
Amiableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amiable; amiability.
Amiably Dictionary A - adverb In an amiable manner.
Amianth Dictionary A - noun See Amianthus.
Amianthiform Dictionary A - adjective Resembling amianthus in form.
Amianthoid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling amianthus.
Amianthus Dictionary A - noun Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.
Amic Dictionary A - adjective Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.
Amicability Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
Amicable Dictionary A - adjective Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.
Amicableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amicable; amicability.
Amicably Dictionary A - adverb In an amicable manner.
Amice Dictionary A - noun A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.
Amid Dictionary A - preposition See Amidst.
Amide Dictionary A - noun A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.
Amidin Dictionary A - noun Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.
Amido Dictionary A - adjective Containing, or derived from, amidogen.
Amidogen Dictionary A - noun A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.
Amidships Dictionary A - adverb In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.
Amidst Dictionary A - preposition Alt. of Amid.
Amine Dictionary A - noun One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.
Amioid Dictionary A - adjective Like or pertaining to the Amioidei.
Amioidei Dictionary A - noun plural An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.
Amiss Dictionary A - adverb Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Amissibility Dictionary A - The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost.
Amissible Dictionary A - adjective Liable to be lost.
Amission Dictionary A - noun Deprivation; loss.
Amit Dictionary A - verb transitive To lose.
Amities Dictionary A - pleural of Amity.
Amity Dictionary A - noun Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
Amma Dictionary A - noun An abbes or spiritual mother.
Ammeter Dictionary A - noun A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.
Ammiral Dictionary A - noun An obsolete form of admiral.
Ammite Dictionary A - noun Oolite or roestone; -- written also hammite.
Ammodyte Dictionary A - noun One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.
Ammonia Dictionary A - noun A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
Ammoniac Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Ammoniacal.
Ammoniacal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
Gum ammoniac Dictionary A - noun The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
Ammoniated Dictionary A - adjective Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
Ammonic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to ammonia.
Ammonite Dictionary A - noun A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
Ammonitiferous Dictionary A - adjective Containing fossil ammonites.
Ammonitoidea Dictionary A - noun plural An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
Ammonium Dictionary A - noun A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.
Ammunition Dictionary A - noun Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
Ammunitioned Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Ammunition.
Ammunitioning Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Ammunition.
Amnesia Dictionary A - noun Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.
Amnesic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to amnesia.
Amnestic Dictionary A - adjective Causing loss of memory.
Amnesty Dictionary A - verb Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
Amnestied Dictionary A - imperative past particle of Amnesty.
Amnestying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amnesty.
Amnicolist Dictionary A - noun One who lives near a river.
Amnigenous Dictionary A - adjective Born or bred in, of, or near a river.
Amnion Dictionary A - noun A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Amnios Dictionary A - noun Same as Amnion.
Amniota Dictionary A - noun plural That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
Amniotic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.
Amoebae Dictionary A - pleural of Amoeba.
Amoebas Dictionary A - pleural of Amoeba.
Amoeba Dictionary A - noun A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.
Amoebaeum Dictionary A - noun A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Amoebea Dictionary A - noun plural That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.
Amoebean Dictionary A - adjective Alternately answering.
Amoebian Dictionary A - noun One of the Amoebea.
Amoebiform Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amoeboid.
Amoeboid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba.
Amoebous Dictionary A - adjective Like an amoeba in structure.
Amolition Dictionary A - noun Removal; a putting away.
Amomum Dictionary A - noun A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.
Amoneste Dictionary A - verb transitive To admonish.
Among Dictionary A - preposition Alt. of Amongst.
Amongst Dictionary A - preposition Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.
Amontillado Dictionary A - noun A dry kind of cherry, of a light color.
Amoret Dictionary A - noun An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.
Amorette Dictionary A - noun An amoret.
Amorist Dictionary A - noun A lover; a gallant.
A-mornings Dictionary A - adverb In the morning; every morning.
Amorosa Dictionary A - noun A wanton woman; a courtesan.
Amorosity Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amorous; lovingness.
Amoroso Dictionary A - noun A lover; a man enamored.
Amorous Dictionary A - adjective Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
Amorously Dictionary A - adverb In an amorous manner; fondly.
Amorousness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.
Amorphas Dictionary A - pleural of Amorpha.
Amorpha Dictionary A - noun A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.
Amorphism Dictionary A - noun A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
Amorphous Dictionary A - adjective Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
Amorphozoa Dictionary A - noun plural Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.
Amorphozoic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.
Amorphy Dictionary A - noun Shapelessness.
Amort Dictionary A - adjective As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.
Amortise Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amortisement.
Amortisation Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amortisement.
Amortisable Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amortisement.
Amortisement Dictionary A - noun Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.
Amortizable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.
Amortization Dictionary A - noun The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.
Amortize Dictionary A - verb transitive To make as if dead; to destroy.
Amortizement Dictionary A - noun Same as Amortization.
Amorwe Dictionary A - adverb In the morning.
Amotion Dictionary A - noun Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.
Amotus Dictionary A - adjective Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.
Amounted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amount.
Amounting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amount.
Amount Dictionary A - noun To go up; to ascend.
Amour Dictionary A - noun Love; affection.
Amour propre Dictionary A - Self-love; self-esteem.
Amovability Dictionary A - noun Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
Amovable Dictionary A - adjective Removable.
Amove Dictionary A - verb transitive To remove, as a person or thing, from a position.
Ampelite Dictionary A - noun An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
Ampere Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Ampere.
Amperemeter Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amperometer.
Amperometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes.
Ampersand Dictionary A - noun A word used to describe the character /, /, or &.
Amphi- Dictionary A - A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Amphiarthrodial Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by amphiarthrosis.
Amphiarthrosis Dictionary A - noun A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.
Amphiaster Dictionary A - noun The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.
Amphibia Dictionary A - noun plural One of the classes of vertebrates.
Amphibial Dictionary A - adjective & noun Amphibian.
Amphibian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
Amphibiological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to amphibiology.
Amphibiology Dictionary A - noun A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.
Amphibiotica Dictionary A - noun plural A division of insects having aquatic larvae.
Amphibious Dictionary A - adjective Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
Amphibiously Dictionary A - adverb Like an amphibious being.
Amphibiums Dictionary A - pleural of Amphibium.
Amphibium Dictionary A - noun An amphibian.
Amphiblastic Dictionary A - adjective Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
Amphibole Dictionary A - noun A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
Amphibolic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.
Amphibological Dictionary A - adjective Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous.
Amphibologies Dictionary A - pleural of Amphibology.
Amphibology Dictionary A - noun A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
Amphibolous Dictionary A - adjective Ambiguous; doubtful.
Amphibolies Dictionary A - pleural of Amphiboly.
Amphiboly Dictionary A - noun Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
Amphibrach Dictionary A - noun A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
Amphicarpic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amphicarpous.
Amphicarpous Dictionary A - adjective Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
Amphichroic Dictionary A - adjective Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
Amphicoelian Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amphicoelous.
Amphicoelous Dictionary A - adjective Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.
Amphicome Dictionary A - noun A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.
Amphictyonic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.
Amphictyons Dictionary A - noun plural Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
Amphictyonies Dictionary A - pleural of Amphictyony.
Amphictyony Dictionary A - noun A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.
Amphid Dictionary A - noun A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.
Amphidisc Dictionary A - noun A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.
Amphidromical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
Amphigamous Dictionary A - adjective Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
Amphigean Dictionary A - adjective Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Amphigen Dictionary A - noun An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
Amphigene Dictionary A - noun Leucite.
Amphigenesis Dictionary A - noun Sexual generation; amphigony.
Amphigenous Dictionary A - adjective Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
Amphigonic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.
Amphigonous Dictionary A - adjective Relating to both parents.
Amphigony Dictionary A - noun Sexual propagation.
Amphigoric Dictionary A - adjective Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.
Amphigory Dictionary A - noun A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
Amphilogism Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amphilogy.
Amphilogy Dictionary A - noun Ambiguity of speech; equivocation.
Amphimacer Dictionary A - noun A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.
Amphineura Dictionary A - noun plural A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
Amphioxus Dictionary A - noun A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.
Amphipneust Dictionary A - noun One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
Amphipod Dictionary A - noun One of the Amphipoda.
Amphipodan Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Amphipoda Dictionary A - noun plural A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.
Amphipodous Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Amphiprostyle Dictionary A - adjective Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.
Amphirhina Dictionary A - noun plural A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.
Amphisbaena Dictionary A - noun A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
Amphisbaenoid Dictionary A - adjective Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbaena.
Amphiscii Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Amphiscians.
Amphiscians Dictionary A - noun plural The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
Amphistomous Dictionary A - adjective Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
Amphistylic Dictionary A - adjective Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.
Amphitheater Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amphitheatre.
Amphitheatre Dictionary A - noun An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
Amphitheatral Dictionary A - adjective Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
Amphitheatric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amphitheatrical.
Amphitheatrical Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
Amphitheatrically Dictionary A - adverb In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
Amphitrocha Dictionary A - noun A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.
Amphitropal Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amphitropous.
Amphitropous Dictionary A - adjective Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
Amphiuma Dictionary A - noun A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
Amphopeptone Dictionary A - noun A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.
Amophorae Dictionary A - pleural of Amphora.
Amphora Dictionary A - noun Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.
Amphoral Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.
Amphoric Dictionary A - adjective Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
Amphoteric Dictionary A - adjective Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.
Ample Dictionary A - adjective Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
Amplectant Dictionary A - adjective Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils.
Ampleness Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
Amplexation Dictionary A - noun An embrace.
Amplexicaul Dictionary A - adjective Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves.
Ampliate Dictionary A - verb transitive To enlarge.
Ampliation Dictionary A - noun Enlargement; amplification.
Ampliative Dictionary A - adjective Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received.
Amplificate Dictionary A - verb transitive To amplify.
Amplification Dictionary A - noun The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
Amplificative Dictionary A - adjective Amplificatory.
Amplificatory Dictionary A - adjective Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
Amplifier Dictionary A - noun One who or that which amplifies.
Amplified Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amplify.
Amplifying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amplify.
Amplify Dictionary A - verb transitive To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Amplitude Dictionary A - noun State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size.
Amply Dictionary A - adverb In an ample manner.
Ampul Dictionary A - noun Same as Ampulla, 2.
Ampullae Dictionary A - pleural of Ampulla.
Ampulla Dictionary A - noun A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
Ampullaceous Dictionary A - adjective Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.
Ampullar Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Ampullary.
Ampullary Dictionary A - adjective Resembling an ampulla.
Ampullate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Ampullated.
Ampullated Dictionary A - adjective Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
Ampulliform Dictionary A - adjective Flask-shaped; dilated.
Amputated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amputate.
Amputating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amputate.
Amputate Dictionary A - verb transitive To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
Amputation Dictionary A - noun The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Amputator Dictionary A - noun One who amputates.
Ampyx Dictionary A - noun A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.
Amrita Dictionary A - noun Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.
Amsel Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Amzel.
Amzel Dictionary A - noun The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
Amuck Dictionary A - adjective & adverb In a frenzied and reckless manner.
Amulet Dictionary A - noun An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. Also used figuratively..
Amuletic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
Amurcous Dictionary A - adjective Full off dregs; foul.
Amusable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being amused.
Amused Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Amuse.
Amusing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Amuse.
Amuse Dictionary A - verb To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
Amusement Dictionary A - noun Deep thought; muse.
Amuser Dictionary A - noun One who amuses.
Amusette Dictionary A - noun A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.
Amusive Dictionary A - adjective Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.
Amy Dictionary A - noun A friend.
Amyelous Dictionary A - adjective Wanting the spinal cord.
Amygdalaceous Dictionary A - adjective Akin to, or derived from, the almond.
Amygdalate Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.
Amygdalic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.
Amygdaliferous Dictionary A - adjective Almond-bearing.
Amygdalin Dictionary A - noun A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
Amygdaline Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.
Amygdaloid Dictionary A - noun A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
Amygdaloidal Dictionary A - adjective Almond-shaped.
Amyl Dictionary A - noun A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Amylaceous Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Amylate Dictionary A - noun A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
Amylene Dictionary A - noun One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.
Amylic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.
Amylobacter Dictionary A - noun A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
Amyloid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Amyloidal.
Amyloidal Dictionary A - adjective Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.
Amylolytic Dictionary A - adjective Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.
Amylose Dictionary A - noun One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
Amyous Dictionary A - adjective Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
Amyss Dictionary A - noun Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
An Dictionary A - This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
Ana- Dictionary A - A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Ana Dictionary A - adverb Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
-ana Dictionary A - A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.
Anabaptism Dictionary A - noun The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
Anabaptist Dictionary A - noun A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
Anabaptistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anabaptistical.
Anabaptistical Dictionary A - adjective Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines.
Anabaptistry Dictionary A - noun The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists.
Anabaptize Dictionary A - verb transitive To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename.
Anabas Dictionary A - noun A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.
Anabasis Dictionary A - noun A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis.".
Anabatic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.
Anabolic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.
Anabolism Dictionary A - noun The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
Anacamptic Dictionary A - adjective Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).
Anacamptically Dictionary A - adverb By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically.
Anacamptics Dictionary A - noun The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.
Anacanthini Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Anacanths.
Anacanths Dictionary A - noun plural A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.
Anacanthous Dictionary A - adjective Spineless, as certain fishes.
Anacardiaceous Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.
Anacardic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.
Anacardium Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.
Anacathartic Dictionary A - adjective Producing vomiting or expectoration.
Anacharis Dictionary A - noun A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
Anachoret Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anachoretical.
Anachoretical Dictionary A - adjective See Anchoret, Anchoretic.
Anachorism Dictionary A - noun An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.
Anachronic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anachronical.
Anachronical Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
Anachronism Dictionary A - noun A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
Anachronistic Dictionary A - adjective Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.
Anachronize Dictionary A - verb transitive To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
Anachronous Dictionary A - adjective Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.
Anaclastic Dictionary A - adjective Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.
Anaclastics Dictionary A - noun That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.
Anacoenosis Dictionary A - noun A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate.
Anacoluthic Dictionary A - adjective Lacking grammatical sequence.
Anacoluthon Dictionary A - noun A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.
Anaconda Dictionary A - noun A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.
Anacreontic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Anacrotic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anachronism.
Anacrotism Dictionary A - noun A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.
Anacrusis Dictionary A - noun A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Anadem Dictionary A - noun A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.
Anadiplosis Dictionary A - noun A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.".
Anadrom Dictionary A - noun A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.
Anadromous Dictionary A - adjective Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
Anaemia Dictionary A - adjective A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.
Anaemic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anaemia.
Anaerobic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic.
Anaerobies Dictionary A - noun plural Microorganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it.
Anaerobiotic Dictionary A - adjective Related to, or of the nature of, anaerobies.
Anaesthesia Dictionary A - noun Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.
Anaesthesis Dictionary A - noun See Anaesthesia.
Anaesthetic Dictionary A - adjective Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.
Anaesthetization Dictionary A - noun The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
Anaesthetize Dictionary A - verb transitive To render insensible by an anaesthetic.
Anaglyph Dictionary A - noun Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
Anaglyphic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anaglyphical.
Anaglyphical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.
Anaglyptic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.
Anaglyptics Dictionary A - noun The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.
Anaglyptograph Dictionary A - noun An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.
Anaglyptographic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving.
Anaglyptography Dictionary A - noun The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.
Anagnorisis Dictionary A - noun The unfolding or denouement.
Anagoge Dictionary A - noun An elevation of mind to things celestial.
Anagogic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anagogical.
Anagogical Dictionary A - adjective Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.
Anagogics Dictionary A - noun plural Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.
Anagogy Dictionary A - noun Same as Anagoge.
Anagram Dictionary A - noun Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
Anagrammatic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anagrammatical.
Anagrammatical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram.
Anagrammatism Dictionary A - noun The act or practice of making anagrams.
Anagrammatist Dictionary A - noun A maker anagrams.
Anagrammatize Dictionary A - verb transitive To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
Anagraph Dictionary A - noun An inventory; a record.
Anakim Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Anaks.
Anaks Dictionary A - noun plural A race of giants living in Palestine.
Anal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.
Analcime Dictionary A - noun A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.
Analcite Dictionary A - noun Analcime.
Analectic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.
Analects Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Analecta.
Analecta Dictionary A - noun plural A collection of literary fragments.
Analemma Dictionary A - noun An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.
Analepsis Dictionary A - Alt. of Analepsy.
Analepsy Dictionary A - Recovery of strength after sickness.
Analeptic Dictionary A - adjective Restorative; giving strength after disease.
Analgesia Dictionary A - noun Absence of sensibility to pain.
Anallagmatic Dictionary A - adjective Not changed in form by inversion.
Anallantoic Dictionary A - adjective Without, or not developing, an allantois.
Anallantoidea Dictionary A - noun plural The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.
Analogal Dictionary A - adjective Analogous.
Analogic Dictionary A - adjective Of or belonging to analogy.
Analogical Dictionary A - adjective Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
Analogically Dictionary A - adverb In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.
Analogicalness Dictionary A - noun Quality of being analogical.
Analogism Dictionary A - noun an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
Analogist Dictionary A - noun One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy.
Analogize Dictionary A - intransitive verb To employ, or reason by, analogy.
Analogon Dictionary A - noun Analogue.
Analogous Dictionary A - adjective Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
Analogue Dictionary A - noun That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.
Analogies Dictionary A - pleural of Analogy.
Analogy Dictionary A - noun A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
Analyse Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Analyser.
Analyser Dictionary A - noun Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.
Analyses Dictionary A - pleural of Analysis.
Analysis Dictionary A - noun A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
Analyst Dictionary A - noun One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.
Analytic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Analytical.
Analytical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic.
Analytically Dictionary A - adverb In an analytical manner.
Analytics Dictionary A - noun The science of analysis.
Analyzable Dictionary A - adjective That may be analyzed.
Analyzation Dictionary A - noun The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.
Analyzed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Analyze.
Analyzing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Analyze.
Analyze Dictionary A - verb transitive To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
Analyzer Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, analyzes.
Anamese Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia.
Anamnesis Dictionary A - noun A recalling to mind; recollection.
Anamnestic Dictionary A - adjective Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.
Anamniotic Dictionary A - adjective Without, or not developing, an amnion.
Anamorphism Dictionary A - noun A distorted image.
Anamorphosis Dictionary A - noun A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.
Anamorphosy Dictionary A - noun Same as Anamorphosis.
Anan Dictionary A - interjection An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?.
Ananas Dictionary A - noun The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).
Anandrous Dictionary A - adjective Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers.
Anangular Dictionary A - adjective Containing no angle.
Anantherous Dictionary A - adjective Destitute of anthers.
Ananthous Dictionary A - adjective Destitute of flowers; flowerless.
Anapaest Dictionary A - Alt. of Anapaestic.
Anapaestic Dictionary A - Same as Anapest, Anapestic.
Anapest Dictionary A - noun A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests.
Anapestic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
Anapestical Dictionary A - adjective Anapestic.
Anaphora Dictionary A - noun A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Anaphrodisia Dictionary A - noun Absence of sexual appetite.
Anaphrodisiac Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antaphrodisiac.
Anaphroditic Dictionary A - adjective Produced without concourse of sexes.
Anaplastic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
Anaplasty Dictionary A - noun The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
Anaplerotic Dictionary A - adjective Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
Anapnograph Dictionary A - noun A form of spirometer.
Anapnoic Dictionary A - adjective Relating to respiration.
Anapodeictic Dictionary A - adjective Not apodeictic; undemonstrable.
Anapophysis Dictionary A - noun An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.
Anaptotic Dictionary A - adjective Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.
Anaptichi Dictionary A - pleural of Anaptychus.
Anaptychus Dictionary A - noun One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.
Anarch Dictionary A - noun The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
Anarchal Dictionary A - adjective Lawless; anarchical.
Anarchic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anarchical.
Anarchical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.
Anarchism Dictionary A - noun The doctrine or practice of anarchists.
Anarchist Dictionary A - noun An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.
Anarchize Dictionary A - verb transitive To reduce to anarchy.
Anarchy Dictionary A - noun Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Anarthropoda Dictionary A - noun plural One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.
Anarthropodous Dictionary A - adjective Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.
Anarthrous Dictionary A - adjective Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.
Anas Dictionary A - noun A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Anasarca Dictionary A - noun Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.
Anasarcous Dictionary A - adjective Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
Anastaltic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Styptic.
Anastate Dictionary A - noun One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.
Anastatic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
Anastomozed Dictionary A - imperative past particle of Anastomose.
Anastomosing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anastomose.
Anastomose Dictionary A - intransitive verb To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
Anastomoses Dictionary A - pleural of Anastomosis.
Anastomosis Dictionary A - noun The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.
Anastomotic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anastomosis.
Anastrophe Dictionary A - noun An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Anathemas Dictionary A - pleural of Anathema.
Anathema Dictionary A - noun A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
Anathematic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anathematical.
Anathematical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.
Anathematism Dictionary A - noun Anathematization.
Anathematization Dictionary A - noun The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.
Anathematized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anathematize.
Anathematizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anathematize.
Anathematize Dictionary A - verb transitive To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed.
Anathematizer Dictionary A - noun One who pronounces an anathema.
Anatifae Dictionary A - pleural of Anatifa.
Anatifa Dictionary A - noun An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.
Anatifer Dictionary A - noun Same as Anatifa.
Anatiferous Dictionary A - adjective Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.
Anatine Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
Anatocism Dictionary A - noun Compound interest.
Anatomic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anatomical.
Anatomical Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations.
Anatomically Dictionary A - adverb In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.
Anatomism Dictionary A - noun The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
Anatomist Dictionary A - noun One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.
Anatomization Dictionary A - noun The act of anatomizing.
Anatomized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anatomize.
Anatomizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anatomize.
Anatomize Dictionary A - verb transitive To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
Anatomizer Dictionary A - noun A dissector.
Anatomies Dictionary A - pleural of Anatomy.
Anatomy Dictionary A - noun The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
Anatreptic Dictionary A - adjective Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Anatron Dictionary A - noun Native carbonate of soda; natron.
Anatropal Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anatropous.
Anatropous Dictionary A - adjective Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.
Anatto Dictionary A - noun Same as Annotto.
Anbury Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Ambury.
Ambury Dictionary A - noun A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.
-ance Dictionary A - A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.
Ancestor Dictionary A - noun One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
Ancestorial Dictionary A - adjective Ancestral.
Ancestorially Dictionary A - adverb With regard to ancestors.
Ancestral Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Ancestress Dictionary A - noun A female ancestor.
Ancestry Dictionary A - noun Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
Anchor Dictionary A - noun A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
Anchored Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anchor.
Anchoring Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anchor.
Anchorable Dictionary A - adjective Fit for anchorage.
Anchorage Dictionary A - noun The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
Anchorate Dictionary A - adjective Anchor-shaped.
Anchoress Dictionary A - noun A female anchoret.
Anchoret Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Anchorite.
Anchorite Dictionary A - noun One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
Anchoretic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anchoretical.
Anchoretical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.
Anchoretish Dictionary A - adjective Hermitlike.
Anchoretism Dictionary A - noun The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
Anchor-hold Dictionary A - noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
Anchoritess Dictionary A - noun An anchoress.
Anchorless Dictionary A - adjective Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Anchovy Dictionary A - noun A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.
Anchovy pear Dictionary A - A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
Anchusin Dictionary A - noun A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.
Anchylosed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anchylose.
Anchylosing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anchylose.
Anchylose Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.
Anchylosis Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Ankylosis.
Ankylosis Dictionary A - noun Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.
Anchylotic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anchylosis.
Ancient Dictionary A - adjective Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
Anciently Dictionary A - adverb In ancient times.
Ancientness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
Ancientry Dictionary A - noun Antiquity; what is ancient.
Ancienty Dictionary A - noun Age; antiquity.
Ancile Dictionary A - noun The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
Ancillary Dictionary A - adjective Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
Ancille Dictionary A - noun A maidservant; a handmaid.
Ancipital Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Ancipitous.
Ancipitous Dictionary A - adjective Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
Ancistroid Dictionary A - adjective Hook-shaped.
Ancle Dictionary A - noun See Ankle.
Ancome Dictionary A - noun A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.
Ancones Dictionary A - pleural of Ancon.
Ancon Dictionary A - noun The olecranon, or the elbow.
Ancone Dictionary A - noun The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter.
Anconal Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anconeal.
Anconeal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.
Anconeus Dictionary A - noun A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
Anconoid Dictionary A - adjective Elbowlike; anconal.
Ancony Dictionary A - noun A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.
-ancy Dictionary A - A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.
And Dictionary A - conjecture A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
Andabatism Dictionary A - noun Doubt; uncertainty.
Andalusite Dictionary A - noun A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.
Andante Dictionary A - adjective Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.
Andantino Dictionary A - adjective Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.
Andarac Dictionary A - noun Red orpiment.
Andean Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the Andes.
Andesine Dictionary A - noun A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes.
Andesite Dictionary A - noun An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
Andine Dictionary A - adjective Andean; as, Andine flora.
Andiron Dictionary A - noun A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.
Andranatomy Dictionary A - noun The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy.
Androecium Dictionary A - noun The stamens of a flower taken collectively.
Androgyne Dictionary A - noun An hermaphrodite.
Androgynous Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Androgynal.
Androgynal Dictionary A - adjective Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.
Androgyny Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Androgynism.
Androgynism Dictionary A - noun Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.
Android Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Androides.
Androides Dictionary A - noun A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.
Andromeda Dictionary A - noun A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
Andron Dictionary A - noun The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.
Andropetalous Dictionary A - adjective Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus.
Androphagi Dictionary A - noun plural Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi.
Androphagous Dictionary A - adjective Anthropophagous.
Androphore Dictionary A - noun A support or column on which stamens are raised.
Androsphinx Dictionary A - noun A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.
Androspore Dictionary A - noun A spore of some algae, which has male functions.
Androtomous Dictionary A - adjective Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.
Androtomy Dictionary A - noun Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zootomy; anthropotomy.
androus Dictionary A - A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.
Anear Dictionary A - preparticle & adverb Near.
Aneath Dictionary A - preparticle & adverb Beneath.
Anecdotage Dictionary A - noun Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.
Anecdotal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.
Anecdote Dictionary A - noun Unpublished narratives.
Anecdotic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anecdotical.
Anecdotical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.
Anecdotist Dictionary A - noun One who relates or collects anecdotes.
Anelace Dictionary A - noun Same as Anlace.
Anele Dictionary A - verb transitive To anoint.
Anelectric Dictionary A - adjective Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric.
Anelectrode Dictionary A - noun The positive pole of a voltaic battery.
Anelectrotonus Dictionary A - noun The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Anemogram Dictionary A - noun A record made by an anemograph.
Anemograph Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.
Anemographic Dictionary A - adjective Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography.
Anemography Dictionary A - noun A description of the winds.
Anemology Dictionary A - noun The science of the wind.
Anemometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.
Anemometric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anemometrical.
Anemometrical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anemometry.
Anemometrograph Dictionary A - noun An anemograph.
Anemometry Dictionary A - noun The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.
Anemone Dictionary A - noun A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
Anemonic Dictionary A - adjective An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.
Anemonin Dictionary A - noun An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.
Anemony Dictionary A - noun See Anemone.
Anemorphilous Dictionary A - adjective Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
Anemoscope Dictionary A - noun An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
Anencephalic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anencephalous.
Anencephalous Dictionary A - adjective Without a brain; brainless.
Anenst Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anent.
Anent Dictionary A - adjective Over against; as, he lives anent the church.
Anenterous Dictionary A - adjective Destitute of a stomach or an intestine.
Aneroid Dictionary A - adjective Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.
Anes Dictionary A - adverb Once.
Anesthesia Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anesthetic.
Anesthetic Dictionary A - adjective Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.
Anet Dictionary A - noun The herb dill, or dillseed.
Anethol Dictionary A - noun A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.
Anetic Dictionary A - adjective Soothing.
Aneurism Dictionary A - noun A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.
Aneurismal Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis.
Anew Dictionary A - adverb Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
Anfractuose Dictionary A - adjective Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.
Anfractuosities Dictionary A - pleural of Anfractuosity.
Anfractuosity Dictionary A - noun A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.
Anfractuous Dictionary A - adjective Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
Anfracture Dictionary A - noun A mazy winding.
Angariation Dictionary A - noun Exaction of forced service; compulsion.
Angeiology Dictionary A - Alt. of Angeiotomy.
Angeiotomy Dictionary A - Same as Angiology, Angiotomy, etc.
Angel Dictionary A - noun A messenger.
Angelage Dictionary A - noun Existence or state of angels.
Angelet Dictionary A - noun A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.
Angel fish Dictionary A - See under Angel.
Angelhood Dictionary A - noun The state of being an angel; angelic nature.
Angelic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Angelical.
Angelical Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine.
Angelica Dictionary A - noun An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.
Angelically Dictionary A - adverb Like an angel.
Angelicalness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.
Angelify Dictionary A - verb transitive To make like an angel; to angelize.
Angelize Dictionary A - verb transitive To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.
Angellike Dictionary A - adjective & adverb Resembling an angel.
Angelolatry Dictionary A - noun Worship paid to angels.
Angelology Dictionary A - noun A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.
Angelophany Dictionary A - noun The actual appearance of an angel to man.
Angelot Dictionary A - noun A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
Angelus Dictionary A - noun A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.
Anger Dictionary A - noun Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
Angered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anger.
Angering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anger.
Angerly Dictionary A - adverb Angrily.
Angevine Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to Anjou in France.
Angienchyma Dictionary A - noun Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.
Angina Dictionary A - noun Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.
Anginous Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anginose.
Anginose Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.
Angio- Dictionary A - A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.
Angiocarpous Dictionary A - adjective Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule.
Angiography Dictionary A - noun A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.
Angiology Dictionary A - noun That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.
Angioma Dictionary A - noun A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.
Angiomonospermous Dictionary A - adjective Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
Angioscope Dictionary A - noun An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Angiosperm Dictionary A - noun A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
Angiospermatous Dictionary A - adjective Same as Angiospermous.
Angiospermous Dictionary A - adjective Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
Angiosporous Dictionary A - adjective Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi.
Angiostomous Dictionary A - adjective With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.
Angiotomy Dictionary A - noun Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.
Angle Dictionary A - noun The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
Angled Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Angle.
Angling Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Angle.
Anglemeter Dictionary A - noun An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
Angler Dictionary A - noun One who angles.
Angles Dictionary A - noun plural An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
Anglesite Dictionary A - noun A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
Anglewise Dictionary A - adverb In an angular manner; angularly.
Angleworm Dictionary A - noun A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.
Anglian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Angles.
Anglic Dictionary A - adjective Anglian.
Anglican Dictionary A - adjective English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
Anglicanism Dictionary A - noun Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
Anglice Dictionary A - adverb In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.
Anglicify Dictionary A - verb transitive To anglicize.
Anglicism Dictionary A - noun An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.
Anglicity Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being English.
Anglicization Dictionary A - noun The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
Anglicized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anglicize.
Anglicizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anglicize.
Anglicize Dictionary A - verb transitive To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Anglified Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anglify.
Anglifying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anglify.
Anglify Dictionary A - verb transitive To convert into English; to anglicize.
Anglo- Dictionary A - A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.
Anglo-Catholic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
Anglomania Dictionary A - noun A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
Anglomaniac Dictionary A - noun One affected with Anglomania.
Anglophobia Dictionary A - noun Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English.
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary A - noun A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.
Anglo-Saxondom Dictionary A - noun The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
Anglo-Saxonism Dictionary A - noun A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Angola Dictionary A - noun A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.
Angola pea Dictionary A - A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.
Angor Dictionary A - noun Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
Angora Dictionary A - noun A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Angostura bark Dictionary A - An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, / officinalis).
Angoumois moth Dictionary A - A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.
Angrily Dictionary A - adverb In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.
Angriness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.
Angry Dictionary A - superlative Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
Anguiform Dictionary A - adjective Snake-shaped.
Anguilliform Dictionary A - adjective Eel-shaped.
Anguine Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.
Anguineal Dictionary A - adjective Anguineous.
Anguineous Dictionary A - adjective Snakelike.
Anguish Dictionary A - noun Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Angular Dictionary A - adjective Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
Angularity Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
Angularly Dictionary A - adverb In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
Angularness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being angular.
Angulate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Angulated.
Angulated Dictionary A - adjective Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.
Angulation Dictionary A - noun A making angular; angular formation.
Angulo-dentate Dictionary A - adjective Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.
Angulometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring external angles.
Angulose Dictionary A - adjective Angulous.
Angulosity Dictionary A - noun A state of being angulous or angular.
Angulous Dictionary A - adjective Angular; having corners; hooked.
Angust Dictionary A - adjective Narrow; strait.
Angustate Dictionary A - adjective Narrowed.
Angustation Dictionary A - noun The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
Angustifoliate Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Angustifolious.
Angustifolious Dictionary A - adjective Having narrow leaves.
Angustura bark Dictionary A - See Angostura bark.
Angwantibo Dictionary A - noun A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
Anhang Dictionary A - verb transitive To hang.
Anharmonic Dictionary A - adjective Not harmonic.
Anhelation Dictionary A - noun Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.
Anhele Dictionary A - intransitive verb To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
Anhelose Dictionary A - adjective Anhelous; panting.
Anhelous Dictionary A - adjective Short of breath; panting.
Anhima Dictionary A - noun A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
Anhinga Dictionary A - noun An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
Anhistous Dictionary A - adjective Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.
Anhungered Dictionary A - adjective Ahungered; longing.
Anhydride Dictionary A - noun An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
Anhydrite Dictionary A - noun A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).
Anhydrous Dictionary A - adjective Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Ani Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Ano.
Ano Dictionary A - noun A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
Anicut Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Annicut.
Annicut Dictionary A - noun A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Anidiomatical Dictionary A - adjective Not idiomatic.
Anient Dictionary A - verb transitive Alt. of Anientise.
Anientise Dictionary A - verb transitive To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.
Anigh Dictionary A - preparticle & adverb Nigh.
Anight Dictionary A - adverb Alt. of Anights.
Anights Dictionary A - adverb In the night time; at night.
Anil Dictionary A - noun A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Anile Dictionary A - adjective Old-womanish; imbecile.
Anileness Dictionary A - noun Anility.
Anilic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
Anilide Dictionary A - noun One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.
Aniline Dictionary A - noun An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.
Anility Dictionary A - noun The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
Animadversal Dictionary A - noun The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
Animadversion Dictionary A - noun The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
Animadversive Dictionary A - adjective Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
Animadverted Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Animadvert.
Animadverting Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Animadvert.
Animadvert Dictionary A - intransitive verb To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Animadverter Dictionary A - noun One who animadverts; a censurer; also Obs., a chastiser.
Animal Dictionary A - noun An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
Animalcular Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Animalculine.
Animalculine Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.
Animalcule Dictionary A - noun A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Animalculism Dictionary A - noun The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
Animalculist Dictionary A - noun One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
Animalcula Dictionary A - pleural of Animalculum.
Animalculum Dictionary A - noun An animalcule.
Animalish Dictionary A - adjective Like an animal.
Animalism Dictionary A - noun The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
Animality Dictionary A - noun Animal existence or nature.
Animalization Dictionary A - noun The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
Animalized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Animalize.
Animalizing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Animalize.
Animalize Dictionary A - verb transitive To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
Animally Dictionary A - adverb Physically.
Animalness Dictionary A - noun Animality.
Animastic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.
Animated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Animate.
Animating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Animate.
Animate Dictionary A - verb transitive To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
Animatedly Dictionary A - adverb With animation.
Animater Dictionary A - noun One who animates.
Animation Dictionary A - noun The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
Animative Dictionary A - adjective Having the power of giving life or spirit.
Animator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, animates; an animater.
Anime Dictionary A - adjective Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
Animism Dictionary A - noun The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
Animist Dictionary A - noun One who maintains the doctrine of animism.
Animistic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to animism.
Animose Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Animous.
Animous Dictionary A - adjective Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.
Animoseness Dictionary A - noun Vehemence of temper.
Animosities Dictionary A - pleural of Animosity.
Animosity Dictionary A - verb transitive Mere spiritedness or courage.
Animi Dictionary A - pleural of Animus.
Animus Dictionary A - noun Animating spirit; intention; temper.
Anion Dictionary A - noun An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
Anise Dictionary A - noun An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.
Aniseed Dictionary A - noun The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.
Anisette Dictionary A - noun A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds.
Anisic Dictionary A - adjective Of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol.
Anisodactyla Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Anisodactyls.
Anisodactyls Dictionary A - noun plural A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
Anisodactylous Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.
Anisomeric Dictionary A - adjective Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.
Anisomerous Dictionary A - adjective Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.
Anisometric Dictionary A - adjective Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes.
Anisopetalous Dictionary A - adjective Having unequal petals.
Anisophyllous Dictionary A - adjective Having unequal leaves.
Anisopleura Dictionary A - noun plural A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.
Anisopoda Dictionary A - noun plural A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.
Anisostemonous Dictionary A - adjective Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.
Anisosthenic Dictionary A - adjective Of unequal strength.
Anisotrope Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anisotropic.
Anisotropic Dictionary A - adjective Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.
Anisotropous Dictionary A - adjective Anisotropic.
Anker Dictionary A - noun A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.
Ankerite Dictionary A - noun A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.
Ankle Dictionary A - noun The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.
Ankled Dictionary A - adjective Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled.
Anklet Dictionary A - noun An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
Ankylose Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive Same as Anchylose.
Anlace Dictionary A - noun A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.
Ann Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Annat.
Annat Dictionary A - noun A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.
Anna Dictionary A - noun An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.
Annal Dictionary A - noun See Annals.
Annalist Dictionary A - noun A writer of annals.
Annalistic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.
Annalize Dictionary A - verb transitive To record in annals.
Annals Dictionary A - noun plural A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
Annats Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Annates.
Annates Dictionary A - noun plural The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
Annealed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anneal.
Annealing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anneal.
Anneal Dictionary A - verb transitive To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
Annealer Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, anneals.
Annectent Dictionary A - adjective Connecting; annexing.
Annelid Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Annelidan.
Annelidan Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Annelida.
Annelida Dictionary A - noun plural A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.
Annelidous Dictionary A - adjective Of the nature of an annelid.
Annellata Dictionary A - noun plural See Annelida.
Anneloid Dictionary A - noun An animal resembling an annelid.
Annexed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annex.
Annexing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annex.
Annex Dictionary A - verb transitive To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
Annexation Dictionary A - verb transitive The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
Annexationist Dictionary A - noun One who favors annexation.
Annexer Dictionary A - noun One who annexes.
Annexion Dictionary A - noun Annexation.
Annexionist Dictionary A - noun An annexationist.
Annexment Dictionary A - noun The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage.
Annihilable Dictionary A - adjective Capable of being annihilated.
Annihilated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annihilate.
Annihilating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annihilate.
Annihilate Dictionary A - verb transitive To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
Annihilation Dictionary A - noun The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
Annihilationist Dictionary A - noun One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
Annihilative Dictionary A - adjective Serving to annihilate; destructive.
Annihilator Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.
Annihilatory Dictionary A - adjective Annihilative.
Anniversarily Dictionary A - adverb Annually.
Anniversary Dictionary A - adjective Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.
Anniversaries Dictionary A - pleural of Anniversary.
Anniverse Dictionary A - noun Anniversary.
Annodated Dictionary A - adjective Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S.
Anno Domini Dictionary A - In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887.
Annominate Dictionary A - verb transitive To name.
Annomination Dictionary A - noun Paronomasia; punning.
Annotated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annotate.
Annotating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annotate.
Annotate Dictionary A - noun To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.
Annotation Dictionary A - noun A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.
Annotationist Dictionary A - noun An annotator.
Annotative Dictionary A - adjective Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.
Annotator Dictionary A - noun A writer of annotations; a commentator.
Annotatory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations.
Annotine Dictionary A - noun A bird one year old, or that has once molted.
Annotinous Dictionary A - adjective A year old; in Yearly growths.
Annotto Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Arnotto.
Arnotto Dictionary A - noun A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.
Announced Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Announce.
Announcing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Announce.
Announce Dictionary A - verb transitive To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Announcement Dictionary A - noun The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.
Announcer Dictionary A - noun One who announces.
Annoyed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annoy.
Annoying Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annoy.
Annoy Dictionary A - noun To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
Annoyance Dictionary A - noun The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
Annoyer Dictionary A - noun One who, or that which, annoys.
Annoyful Dictionary A - adjective Annoying.
Annoyous Dictionary A - adjective Troublesome; annoying.
Annual Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Annualist Dictionary A - noun One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
Annually Dictionary A - adverb Yearly; year by year.
Annuary Dictionary A - adjective Annual.
Annueler Dictionary A - noun A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.
Annuent Dictionary A - adjective Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).
Annuitant Dictionary A - noun One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity.
Annuities Dictionary A - pleural of Annuity.
Annuity Dictionary A - noun A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.
Annulled Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annul.
Annulling Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annul.
Annul Dictionary A - adjective To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Annular Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
Annularity Dictionary A - noun Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula.
Annularry Dictionary A - adverb In an annular manner.
Annulary Dictionary A - adjective Having the form of a ring; annular.
Annulata Dictionary A - noun plural A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.
Annulate Dictionary A - noun One of the Annulata.
Annulated Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.
Annulation Dictionary A - noun A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt.
Annulet Dictionary A - noun A little ring.
Annullable Dictionary A - adjective That may be Annulled.
Annuller Dictionary A - noun One who annuls.
Annulment Dictionary A - noun The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.
Annuloid Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
Annuloida Dictionary A - noun plural A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.
Annulosa Dictionary A - noun plural A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only.
Annulosan Dictionary A - noun One of the Annulosa.
Annulose Dictionary A - adjective Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.
Annuli Dictionary A - pleural of Annulus.
Annulus Dictionary A - noun A ring; a ringlike part or space.
Annumerate Dictionary A - verb transitive To add on; to count in.
Annumeration Dictionary A - noun Addition to a former number.
Annunciable Dictionary A - adjective That may be announced or declared; declarable.
Annunciated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Annunciate.
Annunciating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Annunciate.
Annunciate Dictionary A - verb transitive To announce.
Annunciation Dictionary A - noun The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.
Annunciative Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to annunciation; announcing.
Annunciator Dictionary A - noun One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
Annunciatory Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.
Anoa Dictionary A - noun A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.
Anode Dictionary A - noun The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.
Anodon Dictionary A - noun A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.
Anodyne Dictionary A - adjective Serving to assuage pain; soothing.
Anodynous Dictionary A - adjective Anodyne.
Anoil Dictionary A - verb transitive To anoint with oil.
Anointed Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anoint.
Anointing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anoint.
Anoint Dictionary A - verb transitive To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
Anointer Dictionary A - noun One who anoints.
Anointment Dictionary A - noun The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.
Anolis Dictionary A - noun A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.
Anomal Dictionary A - noun Anything anomalous.
Anomaliped Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anomalipede.
Anomalipede Dictionary A - adjective Having anomalous feet.
Anomalism Dictionary A - noun An anomaly; a deviation from rule.
Anomalistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anomalistical.
Anomalistical Dictionary A - adjective Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
Anomalistically Dictionary A - adverb With irregularity.
Anomaloflorous Dictionary A - adjective Having anomalous flowers.
Anomalous Dictionary A - adjective Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
Anomalously Dictionary A - adverb In an anomalous manner.
Anomalousness Dictionary A - noun Quality of being anomalous.
Anomalies Dictionary A - pleural of Anomaly.
Anomaly Dictionary A - noun Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
Anomia Dictionary A - noun A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.
Anomophyllous Dictionary A - adjective Having leaves irregularly placed.
Anomura Dictionary A - noun plural Alt. of Anomoura.
Anomoura Dictionary A - noun plural A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.
Anomural Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anomuran.
Anomuran Dictionary A - adjective Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.
Anomy Dictionary A - noun Disregard or violation of law.
Anon Dictionary A - adverb Straightway; at once.
Anona Dictionary A - noun A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop.
Anonaceous Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.
Anonym Dictionary A - noun One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym.".
Anonymity Dictionary A - noun The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous.
Anonymous Dictionary A - adjective Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.
Anonymously Dictionary A - adverb In an anonymous manner; without a name.
Anonymousness Dictionary A - noun The state or quality of being anonymous.
Anophyte Dictionary A - noun A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.
Anopla Dictionary A - noun plural One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.
Anoplothere Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Anoplotherium.
Anoplotherium Dictionary A - noun A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).
Anoplura Dictionary A - noun plural A group of insects which includes the lice.
Anopsia Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anopsy.
Anopsy Dictionary A - adjective Want or defect of sight; blindness.
Anorexia Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Anorexy.
Anorexy Dictionary A - noun Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.
Anormal Dictionary A - adjective Not according to rule; abnormal.
Anorn Dictionary A - verb transitive To adorn.
Anorthic Dictionary A - adjective Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.
Anorthite Dictionary A - noun A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.
Anorthoscope Dictionary A - noun An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.
Anosmia Dictionary A - noun Loss of the sense of smell.
Another Dictionary A - pronoun & adjective One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Another-gaines Dictionary A - adjective Of another kind.
Another-gates Dictionary A - adjective Of another sort.
Another-guess Dictionary A - adjective Of another sort.
Anotta Dictionary A - noun See Annotto.
Anoura Dictionary A - noun See Anura.
Anourous Dictionary A - adjective See Anurous.
Ansae Dictionary A - pleural of Ansa.
Ansa Dictionary A - noun A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.
Ansated Dictionary A - adjective Having a handle.
Anserated Dictionary A - adjective Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.
Anseres Dictionary A - noun plural A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.
Anseriformes Dictionary A - noun plural A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.
Anserine Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.
Anserous Dictionary A - adjective Resembling a goose; silly; simple.
Answered Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Answer.
Answering Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Answer.
Answer Dictionary A - noun To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
Answerable Dictionary A - adjective Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
Answerableness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably Dictionary A - adverb In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
Answerer Dictionary A - noun One who answers.
Answerless Dictionary A - adjective Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
An 't Dictionary A - An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
An't Dictionary A - A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
Ant- Dictionary A - See Anti-, prefix.
-ant Dictionary A - A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
Ant Dictionary A - noun A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
Antae Dictionary A - pleural of Anta.
Anta Dictionary A - noun A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Antacid Dictionary A - noun A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.
Antacrid Dictionary A - adjective Corrective of acrimony of the humors.
Antaean Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.
Antagonism Dictionary A - noun Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.
Antagonist Dictionary A - noun One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.
Antagonistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Antagonistical.
Antagonistical Dictionary A - adjective Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
Antagonized Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Antagonize.
Antagonozing Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Antagonize.
Antagonize Dictionary A - verb transitive To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
Antagony Dictionary A - noun Contest; opposition; antagonism.
Antalgic Dictionary A - adjective Alleviating pain.
Antalkali Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Antalkaline.
Antalkaline Dictionary A - noun Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
Antambulacral Dictionary A - adjective Away from the ambulacral region.
Antanaclasis Dictionary A - noun A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
Antanagoge Dictionary A - noun A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
Antaphrodisiac Dictionary A - adjective Capable of blunting the venereal appetite.
Antaphroditic Dictionary A - adjective Antaphrodisiac.
Antapoplectic Dictionary A - adjective Good against apoplexy.
Antarchism Dictionary A - noun Opposition to government in general.
Antarchist Dictionary A - noun One who opposes all government.
Antarchistic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Antarchistical.
Antarchistical Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to all human government.
Antarctic Dictionary A - adjective Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
Antares Dictionary A - noun The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.
Antarthritic Dictionary A - adjective Counteracting or alleviating gout.
Antasthmatic Dictionary A - adjective Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.
Ant-bear Dictionary A - noun An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
Ant bird Dictionary A - See Ant bird, under Ant, n.
Ant-cattle Dictionary A - noun Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
Ante- Dictionary A - A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.
Ante Dictionary A - noun Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
Anteact Dictionary A - noun A preceding act.
Anteal Dictionary A - adjective Being before, or in front.
Ant-eater Dictionary A - noun One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
Antecedaneous Dictionary A - adjective Antecedent; preceding in time.
Antecede Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
Antecedence Dictionary A - noun The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
Antecedency Dictionary A - noun The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.
Antecedent Dictionary A - adjective Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
Antecedently Dictionary A - adverb Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
Antecessor Dictionary A - noun One who goes before; a predecessor.
Antechamber Dictionary A - noun A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
Antechapel Dictionary A - noun The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
Antecians Dictionary A - noun plural See Ant/cians.
Antecommunion Dictionary A - noun A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
Antecursor Dictionary A - noun A forerunner; a precursor.
Antedate Dictionary A - noun Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Antedated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Antedate.
Antedating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Antedate.
Antediluvial Dictionary A - adjective Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.
Antediluvian Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.
Antefact Dictionary A - noun Something done before another act.
Antefixes Dictionary A - pleural of Antefix.
Antefixa Dictionary A - pleural of Antefix.
Antefix Dictionary A - noun An ornament fixed upon a frieze.
Anteflexion Dictionary A - noun A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.
Ant egg Dictionary A - One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.
Antelope Dictionary A - noun One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
Antelucan Dictionary A - adjective Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
Antemeridian Dictionary A - adjective Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.).
Antemetic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to check vomiting.
Antemosaic Dictionary A - adjective Being before the time of Moses.
Antemundane Dictionary A - adjective Being or occurring before the creation of the world.
Antemural Dictionary A - noun An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
Antenatal Dictionary A - adjective Before birth.
Antenicene Dictionary A - adjective Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.
Antennae Dictionary A - pleural of Antenna.
Antenna Dictionary A - noun A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
Antennal Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to the antennae.
Antenniferous Dictionary A - adjective Bearing or having antennae.
Antenniform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like antennae.
Antennule Dictionary A - noun A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea.
Antenumber Dictionary A - noun A number that precedes another.
Antenuptial Dictionary A - adjective Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.
Anteorbital Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antorbital.
Antepaschal Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.
Antepast Dictionary A - noun A foretaste.
Antependium Dictionary A - noun The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.
Antepenult Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Antepenultima.
Antepenultima Dictionary A - noun The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.
Antepenultimate Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.
Antephialtic Dictionary A - adjective Good against nightmare.
Antepileptic Dictionary A - adjective Good against epilepsy.
Antepone Dictionary A - verb transitive To put before; to prefer.
Anteport Dictionary A - noun An outer port, gate, or door.
Anteportico Dictionary A - noun An outer porch or vestibule.
Anteposition Dictionary A - noun The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
Anteprandial Dictionary A - adjective Preceding dinner.
Antepredicament Dictionary A - noun A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.
Anterior Dictionary A - adjective Before in time; antecedent.
Anteriority Dictionary A - noun The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.
Anteriorly Dictionary A - adverb In an anterior manner; before.
Anteroom Dictionary A - noun A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Antero- Dictionary A - A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Antes Dictionary A - noun plural Antae. See Anta.
Antestature Dictionary A - noun A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.
Antestomach Dictionary A - noun A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.
Antetemple Dictionary A - noun The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
Anteversion Dictionary A - noun A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.
Antevert Dictionary A - verb transitive To prevent.
Anthelia Dictionary A - pleural of Anthelion.
Anthelion Dictionary A - noun A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.
Anthelix Dictionary A - noun Same as Antihelix.
Anthelmintic Dictionary A - adjective Good against intestinal worms.
Anthem Dictionary A - noun Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.
Anthemion Dictionary A - A floral ornament. See Palmette.
Anthemis Dictionary A - noun Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
Anthemwise Dictionary A - adverb Alternately.
Anther Dictionary A - noun That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
Antheridia Dictionary A - pleural of Antheridium.
Antheridium Dictionary A - noun The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary.
Antheriferous Dictionary A - adjective Producing anthers, as plants.
Antheriform Dictionary A - adjective Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.
Antherogenous Dictionary A - adjective Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.
Antheroid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling an anther.
Antherozoid Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Antherozooid.
Antherozooid Dictionary A - noun One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
Anthesis Dictionary A - noun The period or state of full expansion in a flower.
Ant-hill Dictionary A - noun A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Anthobian Dictionary A - noun A beetle which feeds on flowers.
Anthobranchia Dictionary A - noun plural A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.
Anthocarpous Dictionary A - adjective Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.
Anthocyanin Dictionary A - noun Same as Anthokyan.
Anthodium Dictionary A - noun The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
Anthography Dictionary A - noun A description of flowers.
Anthoid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling a flower; flowerlike.
Anthokyan Dictionary A - noun The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.
Antholite Dictionary A - noun A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.
Anthological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.
Anthologist Dictionary A - noun One who compiles an anthology.
Anthology Dictionary A - noun A discourse on flowers.
Anthomania Dictionary A - noun A extravagant fondness for flowers.
Anthony's Fire Dictionary A - See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint.
Anthophagous Dictionary A - adjective Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.
Anthophore Dictionary A - noun The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family.
Anthophorous Dictionary A - adjective Flower bearing; supporting the flower.
Anthophyllite Dictionary A - noun A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.
Anthorism Dictionary A - noun A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party.
Anthotaxy Dictionary A - noun The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.
Anthozoa Dictionary A - noun plural The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.
Anthozoan Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to the Anthozoa.
Anthozoic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Anthozoa.
Anthracene Dictionary A - noun A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.
Anthracic Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.
Anthraciferous Dictionary A - adjective Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.
Anthracite Dictionary A - noun A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.
Anthracitic Dictionary A - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.
Anthracoid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.
Anthracomancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by inspecting a burning coal.
Anthracometer Dictionary A - noun An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.
Anthracometric Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to an anthracometer.
Anthraconite Dictionary A - noun A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.
Anthraquinone Dictionary A - noun A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.
Anthrax Dictionary A - noun A carbuncle.
Anthrenus Dictionary A - noun A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.
Anthropic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anthropical.
Anthropical Dictionary A - adjective Like or related to man; human.
Anthropidae Dictionary A - noun plural The group that includes man only.
Anthropocentric Dictionary A - adjective Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.
Anthropogenic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anthropogeny.
Anthropogeny Dictionary A - noun The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.
Anthropoglot Dictionary A - noun An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.
Anthropography Dictionary A - noun That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.
Anthropoid Dictionary A - adjective Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
Anthropoidal Dictionary A - adjective Anthropoid.
Anthropoidea Dictionary A - noun plural The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
Anthropolatry Dictionary A - noun Man worship.
Anthropolite Dictionary A - noun A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
Anthropologic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anthropological.
Anthropological Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.
Anthropologist Dictionary A - noun One who is versed in anthropology.
Anthropology Dictionary A - noun The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
Anthropomancy Dictionary A - noun Divination by the entrails of human being.
Anthropometric Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anthropometrical.
Anthropometrical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anthropometry.
Anthropometry Dictionary A - noun Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.
Anthropomorpha Dictionary A - noun plural The manlike, or anthropoid, apes.
Anthropomorphic Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphism Dictionary A - noun The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
Anthropomorphist Dictionary A - noun One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.
Anthropomorphite Dictionary A - noun One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.
Anthropomorphitic Dictionary A - adjective to anthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphitism Dictionary A - noun Anthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphize Dictionary A - verb transitive & intransitive To attribute a human form or personality to.
Anthropomorphology Dictionary A - noun The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings.
Anthropomorphosis Dictionary A - noun Transformation into the form of a human being.
Anthropomorphous Dictionary A - adjective Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant.
Anthropopathic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anthropopathical.
Anthropopathical Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to anthropopathy.
Anthropopathism Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Anthropopathy.
Anthropopathy Dictionary A - noun The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity.
Anthropophagi Dictionary A - noun plural Man eaters; cannibals.
Anthropophagic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Anthropophagical.
Anthropophagical Dictionary A - adjective Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.
Anthropophaginian Dictionary A - noun One who east human flesh.
Anthropophagite Dictionary A - noun A cannibal.
Anthropophagous Dictionary A - adjective Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.
Anthropophagy Dictionary A - noun The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
Anthropophuism Dictionary A - noun Human nature.
Anthroposcopy Dictionary A - noun The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features.
Anthroposophy Dictionary A - noun Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.
Anthropotomical Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.
Anthropotomist Dictionary A - noun One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.
Anthropotomy Dictionary A - noun The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
Anthypnotic Dictionary A - See Antihypnotic.
Anthypochondriac Dictionary A - adjective & noun See Antihypochondriac.
Anthysteric Dictionary A - adjective & noun See Antihysteric.
Anti Dictionary A - A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.
Antiae Dictionary A - noun plural The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
Antialbumid Dictionary A - noun A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.
Antialbumose Dictionary A - noun See Albumose.
Anti-American Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions.
Antiaphrodisiac Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antaphrodisiac.
Antiapoplectic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antapoplectic.
Antiar Dictionary A - noun A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).
Antiarin Dictionary A - noun A poisonous principle obtained from antiar.
Antiasthmatic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antasthmatic.
Antiattrition Dictionary A - noun Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.
Antibacchius Dictionary A - noun A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).
Antibillous Dictionary A - adjective Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
Antibrachial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.
Antibrachium Dictionary A - noun That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
Antibromic Dictionary A - noun An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.
Antiburgher Dictionary A - noun One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.
Antic Dictionary A - adjective Old; antique.
Anticked Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Antic.
Antickt Dictionary A - of Antic.
Anticatarrhal Dictionary A - adjective Efficacious against catarrh.
Anticathode Dictionary A - noun The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.
Anticausodic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Anticausotic.
Anticausotic Dictionary A - adjective Good against an inflammatory fever.
Antichamber Dictionary A - noun See Antechamber.
Antichlor Dictionary A - noun Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
Antichrist Dictionary A - noun A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.
Antichristian Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to the Christian religion.
Antichristianism Dictionary A - noun Alt. of Antichristianity.
Antichristianity Dictionary A - noun Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
Antichristianly Dictionary A - adverb In an antichristian manner.
Antichronical Dictionary A - adjective Deviating from the proper order of time.
Antichronism Dictionary A - noun Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
Antichthones Dictionary A - pleural of Antichthon.
Antichthon Dictionary A - noun A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun.
Anticipant Dictionary A - adjective Anticipating; expectant; -- with of.
Anticipated Dictionary A - imperative & past particle of Anticipate.
Anticipating Dictionary A - past particle & verb noun of Anticipate.
Anticipate Dictionary A - verb transitive To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
Anticipation Dictionary A - noun The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
Anticipative Dictionary A - adjective Anticipating, or containing anticipation.
Anticipator Dictionary A - noun One who anticipates.
Anticipatory Dictionary A - adjective Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation.
Anticivic Dictionary A - noun Opposed to citizenship.
Anticivism Dictionary A - noun Opposition to the body politic of citizens.
Anticlastic Dictionary A - adjective Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.
Anticlimax Dictionary A - noun A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.
Anticlinal Dictionary A - adjective Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal.
Anticlinoria Dictionary A - pleural of Anticlinorium.
Anticlinorium Dictionary A - noun The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.
Anticly Dictionary A - adverb Oddly; grotesquely.
Antic-mask Dictionary A - noun An antimask.
Anticness Dictionary A - noun The quality of being antic.
Anticonstitutional Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.
Anticontagious Dictionary A - adjective Opposing or destroying contagion.
Anticonvulsive Dictionary A - adjective Good against convulsions.
Anticor Dictionary A - noun A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.
Anticous Dictionary A - adjective Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.
Anticyclone Dictionary A - noun A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.
Antidotal Dictionary A - adjective Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.
Antidotary Dictionary A - adjective Antidotal.
Antidote Dictionary A - noun A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.
Antidotical Dictionary A - adjective Serving as an antidote.
Antidromous Dictionary A - adjective Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.
Antidysenteric Dictionary A - adjective Good against dysentery.
Antiemetic Dictionary A - adjective / noun Same as Antemetic.
Antiephialtic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antephialtic.
Antiepileptic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Same as Antepileptic.
Antifebrile Dictionary A - adjective & noun Febrifuge.
Antifebrine Dictionary A - noun Acetanilide.
Anti-federalist Dictionary A - noun One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.
Antifriction Dictionary A - noun Something to lessen friction; antiattrition.
Antigalastic Dictionary A - adjective Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.
Anti-Gallican Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to what is Gallic or French.
Antigraph Dictionary A - noun A copy or transcript.
Antiguggler Dictionary A - noun A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.
Antihelix Dictionary A - noun The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear.
Antihemorrhagic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to stop hemorrhage.
Antihydrophobic Dictionary A - adjective Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia.
Antihydropic Dictionary A - adjective Good against dropsy.
Antihypnotic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to prevent sleep.
Antihypochondriac Dictionary A - adjective Counteractive of hypochondria.
Antihysteric Dictionary A - adjective Counteracting hysteria.
Antiicteric Dictionary A - adjective Good against jaundice.
Antilegomena Dictionary A - noun plural Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.
Antilibration Dictionary A - noun A balancing; equipoise.
Antilithic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed.
Antilogarithm Dictionary A - noun The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.
Antilogous Dictionary A - adjective Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous.
Antilogies Dictionary A - pleural of Antilogy.
Antilogy Dictionary A - noun A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.
Antiloimic Dictionary A - noun A remedy against the plague.
Antilopine Dictionary A - adjective Of or relating to the antelope.
Antiloquist Dictionary A - noun A contradicter.
Antiloquy Dictionary A - noun Contradiction.
Antilyssic Dictionary A - adjective & noun Antihydrophobic.
Antimacassar Dictionary A - noun A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.
Antimagistrical Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates.
Antimalarial Dictionary A - adjective Good against malaria.
Antimask Dictionary A - noun A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.
Antimason Dictionary A - noun One opposed to Freemasonry.
Antimasonry Dictionary A - noun Opposition to Freemasonry.
Antimephitic Dictionary A - adjective Good against mephitic or deleterious gases.
Antimere Dictionary A - noun One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
Antimetabole Dictionary A - noun A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
Antimetathesis Dictionary A - noun An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.
Antimeter Dictionary A - noun A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
Antimonarchic Dictionary A - Alt. of Antimonarchical.
Antimonarchical Dictionary A - Opposed to monarchial government.
Antimonarchist Dictionary A - noun An enemy to monarchial government.
Antimonate Dictionary A - noun A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.
Antimonial Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to antimony.
Antimoniated Dictionary A - adjective Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.
Antimonic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.
Antimonious Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.
Antimonite Dictionary A - noun A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.
Antimoniureted Dictionary A - adjective Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen.
Antimony Dictionary A - noun An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.
Antinational Dictionary A - adjective Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.
Antinephritic Dictionary A - adjective Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys.
Antinomian Dictionary A - adjective Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
Antinomianism Dictionary A - noun The tenets or practice of Antinomians.
Antinomist Dictionary A - noun An Antinomian.
Antinomies Dictionary A - pleural of Antinomy.
Antinomy Dictionary A - noun Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.
Antiochian Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.
Antiodontalgic Dictionary A - adjective Efficacious in curing toothache.
Antiorgastic Dictionary A - adjective Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.
Antipapal Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to the pope or to popery.
Antiparallel Dictionary A - adjective Running in a contrary direction.
Antiparallels Dictionary A - noun plural Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.
Antiparalytic Dictionary A - adjective Good against paralysis.
Antiparalytical Dictionary A - adjective Antiparalytic.
Antipathetic Dictionary A - adjective Alt. of Antipathetical.
Antipathetical Dictionary A - adjective Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to.
Antipathic Dictionary A - adjective Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.
Antipathist Dictionary A - noun One who has an antipathy.
Antipathize Dictionary A - intransitive verb To feel or show antipathy.
Antipathous Dictionary A - adjective Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.
Antipathies Dictionary A - pleural of Antipathy.
Antipathy Dictionary A - noun Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
Antipeptone Dictionary A - noun A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
Antiperiodic Dictionary A - noun A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
Antiperistaltic Dictionary A - adjective Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
Antiperistasis Dictionary A - noun Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
Antiperistatic Dictionary A - adjective Pertaining to antiperistasis.
Antipetalous Dictionary A - adjective Standing before a petal, as a stamen.