1  "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."
   2  
   3  "A () The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G."
   4  
   5  "A () An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically."
   6  
   7  "A () In each; to or for each; as, ""twenty leagues a day"", ""a hundred pounds a year"", ""a dollar a yard"", etc."
   8  
   9  A (prep.) In; on; at; by.
  10  
  11  "A (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging."
  12  
  13  A () Of.
  14  
  15  "A () A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they."
  16  
  17  "A () An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter"
  18  
  19  "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-."
  20  
  21  A 1 () 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.
  22  
  23  "Aam (n.) 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."
  24  
  25  "Aard-vark (n.) 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."
  26  
  27  "Aard-wolf (n.) A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles."
  28  
  29  Aaronic (a.) Alt. of Aaronical
  30  
  31  "Aaronical (a.) Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews."
  32  
  33  "Aaron's rod () A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two."
  34  
  35  "Aaron's rod () A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod."
  36  
  37  "Ab- () A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6)."
  38  
  39  "Ab (n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August."
  40  
  41  "Abaca (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila."
  42  
  43  Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.
  44  
  45  Abacination (n.) The act of abacinating.
  46  
  47  Abaciscus (n.) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.
  48  
  49  Abacist (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
  50  
  51  Aback (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.
  52  
  53  Aback (adv.) Behind; in the rear.
  54  
  55  Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.
  56  
  57  Aback (n.) An abacus.
  58  
  59  Abactinal (a.) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal.
  60  
  61  Abaction (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
  62  
  63  Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
  64  
  65  Abaculi (pl. ) of Abaculus
  66  
  67  "Abaculus (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements."
  68  
  69  Abacuses (pl. ) of Abacus
  70  
  71  Abaci (pl. ) of Abacus
  72  
  73  "Abacus (n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc."
  74  
  75  "Abacus (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China."
  76  
  77  "Abacus (n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column."
  78  
  79  "Abacus (n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work."
  80  
  81  "Abacus (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard."
  82  
  83  Abada (n.) The rhinoceros.
  84  
  85  "Abaddon (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus."
  86  
  87  Abaddon (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.
  88  
  89  "Abaft (prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse."
  90  
  91  "Abaft (adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft."
  92  
  93  Abaisance (n.) Obeisance.
  94  
  95  Abaiser (n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal.
  96  
  97  Abaist (p. p.) Abashed; confounded; discomfited.
  98  
  99  Abalienate (v. t.) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
 100  
 101  Abalienate (v. t.) To estrange; to withdraw.
 102  
 103  Abalienate (v. t.) To cause alienation of (mind).
 104  
 105  Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
 106  
 107  "Abalone (n.) 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."
 108  
 109  Aband (v. t.) To abandon.
 110  
 111  Aband (v. t.) To banish; to expel.
 112  
 113  Abandoned (imp. & p. p.) of Abandon
 114  
 115  Abandoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abandon
 116  
 117  Abandon (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
 118  
 119  "Abandon (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender."
 120  
 121  Abandon (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
 122  
 123  "Abandon (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against."
 124  
 125  Abandon (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.
 126  
 127  Abandon (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
 128  
 129  "Abandoned (a.) Forsaken, deserted."
 130  
 131  "Abandoned (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain."
 132  
 133  Abandonedly (adv.) Unrestrainedly.
 134  
 135  Abandonee (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
 136  
 137  Abandoner (n.) One who abandons.
 138  
 139  "Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment."
 140  
 141  Abandonment (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
 142  
 143  "Abandonment (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc."
 144  
 145  "Abandonment (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion."
 146  
 147  Abandonment (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
 148  
 149  Abandum (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.
 150  
 151  Abanet (n.) See Abnet.
 152  
 153  "Abanga (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest."
 154  
 155  Abannation (n.) Alt. of Abannition
 156  
 157  Abannition (n.) Banishment.
 158  
 159  "Abarticulation (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis."
 160  
 161  Abased (imp. & p. p.) of Abase
 162  
 163  Abasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abase
 164  
 165  "Abase (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye."
 166  
 167  "Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade."
 168  
 169  Abased (a.) Lowered; humbled.
 170  
 171  "Abased (a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield."
 172  
 173  Abasedly (adv.) Abjectly; downcastly.
 174  
 175  "Abasement (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation."
 176  
 177  "Abaser (n.) He who, or that which, abases."
 178  
 179  Abashed (imp. & p. p.) of Abash
 180  
 181  Abashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abash
 182  
 183  "Abash (v. t.) 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."
 184  
 185  Abashedly (adv.) In an abashed manner.
 186  
 187  Abashment (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
 188  
 189  Abassi (n.) Alt. of Abassis
 190  
 191  "Abassis (n.) A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents."
 192  
 193  "Abatable (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance."
 194  
 195  Abated (imp. & p. p.) of Abate
 196  
 197  Abating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abate
 198  
 199  Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
 200  
 201  "Abate (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope."
 202  
 203  "Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price."
 204  
 205  Abate (v. t.) To blunt.
 206  
 207  Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
 208  
 209  "Abate (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ."
 210  
 211  "Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets."
 212  
 213  "Abate (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates."
 214  
 215  "Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates."
 216  
 217  Abate (n.) Abatement.
 218  
 219  "Abatement (n.) 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."
 220  
 221  Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
 222  
 223  Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
 224  
 225  "Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee."
 226  
 227  "Abater (n.) One who, or that which, abates."
 228  
 229  Abatis (n.) Alt. of Abattis
 230  
 231  "Abattis (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy."
 232  
 233  Abatised (a.) Provided with an abatis.
 234  
 235  Abator (n.) One who abates a nuisance.
 236  
 237  "Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee."
 238  
 239  Abattoirs (pl. ) of Abattoir
 240  
 241  "Abattoir (n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc."
 242  
 243  Abature (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
 244  
 245  Abatvoix (n.) The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
 246  
 247  Abawed (p. p.) Astonished; abashed.
 248  
 249  Abaxial (a.) Alt. of Abaxile
 250  
 251  Abaxile (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.
 252  
 253  Abay (n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay.
 254  
 255  "Abb (n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb."
 256  
 257  "Abba (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch."
 258  
 259  Abbacies (pl. ) of Abbacy
 260  
 261  "Abbacy (n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot."
 262  
 263  "Abbatial (a.) Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights."
 264  
 265  Abbatical (a.) Abbatial.
 266  
 267  "Abbe (n.) 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."
 268  
 269  "Abbess (n.) 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."
 270  
 271  Abbeys (pl. ) of Abbey
 272  
 273  "Abbey (n.) 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."
 274  
 275  Abbey (n.) The church of a monastery.
 276  
 277  Abbot (n.) The superior or head of an abbey.
 278  
 279  Abbot (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
 280  
 281  Abbotship (n.) The state or office of an abbot.
 282  
 283  Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviate
 284  
 285  Abbreviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviate
 286  
 287  "Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken."
 288  
 289  "Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction."
 290  
 291  Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
 292  
 293  Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
 294  
 295  Abbreviate (n.) An abridgment.
 296  
 297  Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
 298  
 299  "Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing."
 300  
 301  Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
 302  
 303  "Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America."
 304  
 305  "Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers."
 306  
 307  Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
 308  
 309  "Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form."
 310  
 311  Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
 312  
 313  Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
 314  
 315  Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
 316  
 317  Abb wool () See Abb.
 318  
 319  "A B C () The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet."
 320  
 321  A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.
 322  
 323  "A B C () The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance."
 324  
 325  Abdal (n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
 326  
 327  Abderian (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
 328  
 329  "Abderite (n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace."
 330  
 331  Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
 332  
 333  Abdicable (a.) Capable of being abdicated.
 334  
 335  Abdicant (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
 336  
 337  Abdicant (n.) One who abdicates.
 338  
 339  Abdicated (imp. & p. p.) of Abdicate
 340  
 341  Abdicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abdicate
 342  
 343  "Abdicate (v. t.) 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."
 344  
 345  "Abdicate (v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc."
 346  
 347  Abdicate (v. t.) To reject; to cast off.
 348  
 349  "Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit."
 350  
 351  "Abdicate (v. i.) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity."
 352  
 353  "Abdication (n.) 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."
 354  
 355  "Abdicative (a.) Causing, or implying, abdication."
 356  
 357  Abdicator (n.) One who abdicates.
 358  
 359  Abditive (a.) Having the quality of hiding.
 360  
 361  Abditory (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.
 362  
 363  "Abdomen (n.) 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."
 364  
 365  "Abdomen (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda."
 366  
 367  "Abdominal (a.) Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity."
 368  
 369  "Abdominal (a.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes."
 370  
 371  Abdominals (pl. ) of Abdominal
 372  
 373  Abdominales (pl. ) of Abdominal
 374  
 375  Abdominal (n.) A fish of the group Abdominales.
 376  
 377  "Abdominales (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals."
 378  
 379  Abdominalia (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.
 380  
 381  Abdominoscopy (n.) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.
 382  
 383  "Abdominothoracic (a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest."
 384  
 385  Abdominous (a.) Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.
 386  
 387  Abduced (imp. & p. p.) of Abduce
 388  
 389  Abducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduce
 390  
 391  Abduce (v. t.) To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
 392  
 393  Abducted (imp. & p. p.) of Abduct
 394  
 395  Abducting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduct
 396  
 397  Abduct (v. t.) To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
 398  
 399  "Abduct (v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position."
 400  
 401  Abduction (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
 402  
 403  "Abduction (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body."
 404  
 405  "Abduction (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress."
 406  
 407  "Abduction (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable."
 408  
 409  Abductor (n.) One who abducts.
 410  
 411  "Abductor (n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward."
 412  
 413  "Abeam (adv.) 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."
 414  
 415  Abear (v. t.) To bear; to behave.
 416  
 417  Abear (v. t.) To put up with; to endure.
 418  
 419  Abearance (n.) Behavior.
 420  
 421  Abearing (n.) Behavior.
 422  
 423  "Abecedarian (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro."
 424  
 425  Abecedarian (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
 426  
 427  Abecedarian (a.) Alt. of Abecedary
 428  
 429  "Abecedary (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary."
 430  
 431  Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
 432  
 433  "Abed (adv.) In bed, or on the bed."
 434  
 435  "Abed (adv.) To childbed (in the phrase ""brought abed,"" that is, delivered of a child)."
 436  
 437  Abegge () Same as Aby.
 438  
 439  Abele (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).
 440  
 441  Abelian (n.) Alt. of Abelonian
 442  
 443  Abelite (n.) Alt. of Abelonian
 444  
 445  "Abelonian (n.) 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."
 446  
 447  "Abelmosk (n.) 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."
 448  
 449  "Aber-de-vine (n.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch."
 450  
 451  Aberr (v. i.) To wander; to stray.
 452  
 453  Aberrance (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy
 454  
 455  "Aberrancy (n.) State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc."
 456  
 457  Aberrant (a.) Wandering; straying from the right way.
 458  
 459  Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
 460  
 461  Aberrate (v. i.) To go astray; to diverge.
 462  
 463  "Aberration (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type."
 464  
 465  Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
 466  
 467  "Aberration (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth."
 468  
 469  "Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus."
 470  
 471  Aberration (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
 472  
 473  "Aberration (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B."
 474  
 475  Aberrational (a.) Characterized by aberration.
 476  
 477  Aberuncate (v. t.) To weed out.
 478  
 479  Aberuncator (n.) A weeding machine.
 480  
 481  Abetted (imp. & p. p.) of Abet
 482  
 483  Abetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abet
 484  
 485  "Abet (v. t.) 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."
 486  
 487  "Abet (v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense."
 488  
 489  "Abet (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense."
 490  
 491  Abet (n.) Act of abetting; aid.
 492  
 493  "Abetment (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc."
 494  
 495  Abettal (n.) Abetment.
 496  
 497  Abetter (n.) Alt. of Abettor
 498  
 499  Abettor (n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.
 500  
 501  Abevacuation (n.) A partial evacuation.
 502  
 503  Abeyance (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 504  
 505  Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
 506  
 507  Abeyancy (n.) Abeyance.
 508  
 509  Abeyant (a.) Being in a state of abeyance.
 510  
 511  Abhal (n.) The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.
 512  
 513  Abhominable (a.) Abominable.
 514  
 515  Abhominal (a.) Inhuman.
 516  
 517  Abhorred (imp. & p. p.) of Abhor
 518  
 519  Abhorring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abhor
 520  
 521  Abhor (v. t.) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
 522  
 523  Abhor (v. t.) To fill with horror or disgust.
 524  
 525  Abhor (v. t.) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
 526  
 527  "Abhor (v. i.) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with"
 528  
 529  Abhorrence (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
 530  
 531  Abhorrency (n.) Abhorrence.
 532  
 533  "Abhorrent (a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts."
 534  
 535  Abhorrent (a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
 536  
 537  Abhorrent (a.) Detestable.
 538  
 539  Abhorrently (adv.) With abhorrence.
 540  
 541  Abhorrer (n.) One who abhors.
 542  
 543  Abhorrible (a.) Detestable.
 544  
 545  Abhorring (n.) Detestation.
 546  
 547  Abhorring (n.) Object of abhorrence.
 548  
 549  "Abib (n.) The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan."
 550  
 551  Abidance (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
 552  
 553  Abode (imp. & p. p.) of Abide
 554  
 555  Abid () of Abide
 556  
 557  Abiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abide
 558  
 559  Abide (v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.
 560  
 561  "Abide (v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place."
 562  
 563  Abide (v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
 564  
 565  "Abide (v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time."
 566  
 567  Abide (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
 568  
 569  Abide (v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
 570  
 571  Abide (v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
 572  
 573  "Abider (n.) One who abides, or continues."
 574  
 575  Abider (n.) One who dwells; a resident.
 576  
 577  Abiding (a.) Continuing; lasting.
 578  
 579  Abidingly (adv.) Permanently.
 580  
 581  "Abies (n.) 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."
 582  
 583  Abietene (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.
 584  
 585  "Abietic (a.) Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid."
 586  
 587  Abietin (n.) Alt. of Abietine
 588  
 589  "Abietine (n.) 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."
 590  
 591  "Abietinic (a.) Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid."
 592  
 593  "Abietite (n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata)."
 594  
 595  Abigail (n.) A lady's waiting-maid.
 596  
 597  Abiliment (n.) Habiliment.
 598  
 599  Abilities (pl. ) of Ability
 600  
 601  "Ability (n.) 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."
 602  
 603  Abime (n.) Alt. of Abyme
 604  
 605  Abyme (n.) A abyss.
 606  
 607  "Abiogenesis (n.) 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."
 608  
 609  Abiogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
 610  
 611  Abiogenist (n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.
 612  
 613  Abiogenous (a.) Produced by spontaneous generation.
 614  
 615  Abiogeny (n.) Same as Abiogenesis.
 616  
 617  Abiological (a.) Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
 618  
 619  Abirritant (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation.
 620  
 621  Abirritate (v. t.) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
 622  
 623  Abirritation (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
 624  
 625  Abirritative (a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
 626  
 627  Abit () 3d sing. pres. of Abide.
 628  
 629  Abject (a.) Cast down; low-lying.
 630  
 631  "Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts."
 632  
 633  "Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase."
 634  
 635  Abject (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
 636  
 637  Abjectedness (n.) A very abject or low condition; abjectness.
 638  
 639  Abjection (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.
 640  
 641  Abjection (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
 642  
 643  Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
 644  
 645  Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
 646  
 647  Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
 648  
 649  Abjudge (v. t.) To take away by judicial decision.
 650  
 651  "Abjudicate (v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge."
 652  
 653  Abjudication (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.
 654  
 655  Abjugate (v. t.) To unyoke.
 656  
 657  Abjunctive (a.) Exceptional.
 658  
 659  "Abjuration (n.) 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."
 660  
 661  "Abjuration (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy."
 662  
 663  Abjuratory (a.) Containing abjuration.
 664  
 665  Abjured (imp. & p. p.) of Abjure
 666  
 667  Abjuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abjure
 668  
 669  "Abjure (v. t.) 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."
 670  
 671  "Abjure (v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors."
 672  
 673  Abjure (v. i.) To renounce on oath.
 674  
 675  Abjurement (n.) Renunciation.
 676  
 677  Abjurer (n.) One who abjures.
 678  
 679  Ablactate (v. t.) To wean.
 680  
 681  "Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam."
 682  
 683  "Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach."
 684  
 685  "Ablaqueate (v. t.) To lay bare, as the roots of a tree."
 686  
 687  Ablaqueation (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
 688  
 689  Ablastemic (a.) Non-germinal.
 690  
 691  Ablation (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
 692  
 693  Ablation (n.) Extirpation.
 694  
 695  Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
 696  
 697  "Ablatitious (a.) Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force."
 698  
 699  Ablative (a.) Taking away or removing.
 700  
 701  "Ablative (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away."
 702  
 703  Ablative () The ablative case.
 704  
 705  "Ablaut (n.) 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."
 706  
 707  "Ablaze (adv. & a.) On fire; in a blaze, gleaming."
 708  
 709  Ablaze (adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
 710  
 711  Able (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.
 712  
 713  "Able (superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano."
 714  
 715  "Able (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech."
 716  
 717  "Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property."
 718  
 719  Able (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
 720  
 721  Able (a.) To vouch for.
 722  
 723  "-able () 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."
 724  
 725  "Able-bodied (a.) Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust."
 726  
 727  Ablegate (v. t.) To send abroad.
 728  
 729  "Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office."
 730  
 731  Ablegation (n.) The act of sending abroad.
 732  
 733  Able-minded (a.) Having much intellectual power.
 734  
 735  Ableness (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
 736  
 737  Ablepsy (n.) Blindness.
 738  
 739  Abler (a.) comp. of Able.
 740  
 741  Abler (a.) superl. of Able.
 742  
 743  Ablet () Alt. of Ablen
 744  
 745  Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
 746  
 747  Abligate (v. t.) To tie up so as to hinder from.
 748  
 749  Abligurition (n.) Prodigal expense for food.
 750  
 751  Ablins (adv.) Perhaps.
 752  
 753  Abloom (adv.) In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
 754  
 755  Ablude (v. t.) To be unlike; to differ.
 756  
 757  Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
 758  
 759  Abluent (n.) A detergent.
 760  
 761  Ablush (adv. & a.) Blushing; ruddy.
 762  
 763  "Ablution (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite."
 764  
 765  Ablution (n.) The water used in cleansing.
 766  
 767  "Ablution (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest."
 768  
 769  Ablutionary (a.) Pertaining to ablution.
 770  
 771  Abluvion (n.) That which is washed off.
 772  
 773  "Ably (adv.) In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said."
 774  
 775  "-ably () A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably."
 776  
 777  Abnegated (imp. & p. p.) of Abnegate
 778  
 779  Abnegating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abnegate
 780  
 781  Abnegate (v. t.) To deny and reject; to abjure.
 782  
 783  Abnegation (n.) a denial; a renunciation.
 784  
 785  Abnegative (a.) Denying; renouncing; negative.
 786  
 787  "Abnegator (n.) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything."
 788  
 789  Abnet (n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
 790  
 791  Abnodate (v. t.) To clear (tress) from knots.
 792  
 793  Abnodation (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.
 794  
 795  Abnormal (a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
 796  
 797  Abnormalities (pl. ) of Abnormality
 798  
 799  Abnormality (n.) The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
 800  
 801  Abnormality (n.) Something abnormal.
 802  
 803  Abnormally (adv.) In an abnormal manner; irregularly.
 804  
 805  Abnormities (pl. ) of Abnormity
 806  
 807  Abnormity (n.) Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity.
 808  
 809  Abnormous (a.) Abnormal; irregular.
 810  
 811  "Aboard (adv.) On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car."
 812  
 813  "Aboard (adv.) Alongside; as, close aboard."
 814  
 815  "Aboard (prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship."
 816  
 817  Aboard (prep.) Across; athwart.
 818  
 819  Abodance (n.) An omen; a portending.
 820  
 821  Abode () pret. of Abide.
 822  
 823  Abode (n.) Act of waiting; delay.
 824  
 825  Abode (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
 826  
 827  "Abode (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation."
 828  
 829  Abode (v. t.) An omen.
 830  
 831  Abode (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
 832  
 833  Abode (v. i.) To be ominous.
 834  
 835  Abodement (n.) A foreboding; an omen.
 836  
 837  Aboding (n.) A foreboding.
 838  
 839  Abolished (imp. & p. p.) of Abolish
 840  
 841  Abolishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abolish
 842  
 843  "Abolish (v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly."
 844  
 845  "Abolish (v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out."
 846  
 847  Abolishable (a.) Capable of being abolished.
 848  
 849  Abolisher (n.) One who abolishes.
 850  
 851  Abolishment (n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
 852  
 853  "Abolition (n.) 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."
 854  
 855  Abolitionism (n.) The principles or measures of abolitionists.
 856  
 857  "Abolitionist (n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery."
 858  
 859  Abolitionize (v. t.) To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.
 860  
 861  Aboma (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).
 862  
 863  Abomasum (n.) Alt. of Abomasus
 864  
 865  "Abomasus (n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia."
 866  
 867  "Abominable (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable."
 868  
 869  Abominable (a.) Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.
 870  
 871  Abominableness (n.) The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness.
 872  
 873  Abominably (adv.) In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
 874  
 875  Abominated (imp. & p. p.) of Abominate
 876  
 877  Abominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abominate
 878  
 879  "Abominate (v. t.) To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety."
 880  
 881  "Abomination (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination."
 882  
 883  "Abomination (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution."
 884  
 885  Abomination (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness.
 886  
 887  Aboon (prep.) and adv. Above.
 888  
 889  "Aboral (a.) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth."
 890  
 891  Abord (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
 892  
 893  Abord (v. t.) To approach; to accost.
 894  
 895  "Aboriginal (a.) First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America."
 896  
 897  "Aboriginal (a.) Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood."
 898  
 899  Aboriginal (n.) An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
 900  
 901  Aboriginal (n.) An animal or a plant native to the region.
 902  
 903  Aboriginality (n.) The quality of being aboriginal.
 904  
 905  Aboriginally (adv.) Primarily.
 906  
 907  Aborigines (n. pl.) The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.
 908  
 909  Aborigines (n. pl.) The original fauna and flora of a geographical area
 910  
 911  Aborsement (n.) Abortment; abortion.
 912  
 913  Aborsive (a.) Abortive.
 914  
 915  Abort (v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
 916  
 917  "Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile."
 918  
 919  Abort (n.) An untimely birth.
 920  
 921  Abort (n.) An aborted offspring.
 922  
 923  Aborted (a.) Brought forth prematurely.
 924  
 925  "Aborted (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches."
 926  
 927  Aborticide (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
 928  
 929  Abortifacient (v.) Producing miscarriage.
 930  
 931  Abortifacient (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
 932  
 933  "Abortion (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage."
 934  
 935  Abortion (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.
 936  
 937  "Abortion (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed."
 938  
 939  "Abortion (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion."
 940  
 941  Abortional (a.) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.
 942  
 943  Abortionist (n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage.
 944  
 945  "Abortive (v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child."
 946  
 947  "Abortive (v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum."
 948  
 949  Abortive (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
 950  
 951  "Abortive (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt."
 952  
 953  "Abortive (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc."
 954  
 955  "Abortive (v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines."
 956  
 957  "Abortive (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever."
 958  
 959  Abortive (n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
 960  
 961  Abortive (n.) A fruitless effort or issue.
 962  
 963  Abortive (n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
 964  
 965  Abortively (adv.) In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
 966  
 967  Abortiveness (n.) The quality of being abortive.
 968  
 969  Abortment (n.) Abortion.
 970  
 971  Abought () imp. & p. p. of Aby.
 972  
 973  Abounded (imp. & p. p.) of Abound
 974  
 975  Abounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abound
 976  
 977  Abound (v. i.) To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
 978  
 979  Abound (v. i.) To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with.
 980  
 981  About (prep.) Around; all round; on every side of.
 982  
 983  "About (prep.) In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person)."
 984  
 985  About (prep.) Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
 986  
 987  "About (prep.) Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity."
 988  
 989  About (prep.) In concern with; engaged in; intent on.
 990  
 991  About (prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
 992  
 993  About (prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
 994  
 995  About (adv.) On all sides; around.
 996  
 997  "About (adv.) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across."
 998  
 999  About (adv.) Here and there; around; in one place and another.
1000  
1001  "About (adv.) Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time."
1002  
1003  "About (adv.) To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about."
1004  
1005  About-sledge (n.) The largest hammer used by smiths.
1006  
1007  Above (prep.) In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.
1008  
1009  "Above (prep.) Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach."
1010  
1011  "Above (prep.) Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)"
1012  
1013  "Above (adv.) In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above."
1014  
1015  "Above (adv.) Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page."
1016  
1017  "Above (adv.) Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above."
1018  
1019  "Above (adv.) More than; as, above five hundred were present."
1020  
1021  "Aboveboard (adv.) Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception."
1022  
1023  "Above-cited (a.) Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing."
1024  
1025  "Abovedeck (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice."
1026  
1027  Above-mentioned (a.) Alt. of Above-named
1028  
1029  Above-named (a.) Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
1030  
1031  Abovesaid (a.) Mentioned or recited before.
1032  
1033  Abox (adv. & a.) Braced aback.
1034  
1035  Abracadabra (n.) 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.
1036  
1037  "Abradant (n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc."
1038  
1039  Abraded (imp. & p. p.) of Abrade
1040  
1041  Abrading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abrade
1042  
1043  "Abrade (v. t.) To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks."
1044  
1045  Abrade (v. t.) Same as Abraid.
1046  
1047  "Abrahamic (a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant."
1048  
1049  Abrahamitic (a.) Alt. of ical
1050  
1051  ical (a.) Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
1052  
1053  Abraham-man (n.) Alt. of Abram-man
1054  
1055  "Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms."
1056  
1057  "Abraid (v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out."
1058  
1059  Abranchial (a.) Abranchiate.
1060  
1061  "Abranchiata (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration."
1062  
1063  Abranchiate (a.) Without gills.
1064  
1065  Abrase (a.) Rubbed smooth.
1066  
1067  "Abrasion (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins."
1068  
1069  Abrasion (n.) The substance rubbed off.
1070  
1071  "Abrasion (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds."
1072  
1073  Abrasive (a.) Producing abrasion.
1074  
1075  Abraum (n.) Alt. of Abraum salts
1076  
1077  Abraum salts (n.) A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
1078  
1079  "Abraxas (n.) A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved."
1080  
1081  Abray (v.) See Abraid.
1082  
1083  "Abreast (adv.) Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, ""Two men could hardly walk abreast."""
1084  
1085  "Abreast (adv.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of."
1086  
1087  "Abreast (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science."
1088  
1089  Abreast (adv.) At the same time; simultaneously.
1090  
1091  Abregge (v. t.) See Abridge.
1092  
1093  Abrenounce (v. t.) To renounce.
1094  
1095  Abrenunciation (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation.
1096  
1097  Abreption (n.) A snatching away.
1098  
1099  "Abreuvoir (n.) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar."
1100  
1101  Abricock (n.) See Apricot.
1102  
1103  Abridged (imp. & p. p.) of Abridge
1104  
1105  Abridging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abridge
1106  
1107  "Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights."
1108  
1109  "Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary."
1110  
1111  "Abridge (v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights."
1112  
1113  Abridger (n.) One who abridges.
1114  
1115  "Abridgment (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses."
1116  
1117  "Abridgment (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation."
1118  
1119  "Abridgment (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly."
1120  
1121  "Abroach (v. t.) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap."
1122  
1123  "Abroach (adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped."
1124  
1125  Abroach (adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.
1126  
1127  "Abroad (adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad."
1128  
1129  "Abroad (adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad."
1130  
1131  "Abroad (adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad."
1132  
1133  Abroad (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.
1134  
1135  Abrogable (a.) Capable of being abrogated.
1136  
1137  Abrogate (a.) Abrogated; abolished.
1138  
1139  Abrogated (imp. & p. p.) of Abrogate
1140  
1141  Abrogating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abrogate
1142  
1143  "Abrogate (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc."
1144  
1145  Abrogate (v. t.) To put an end to; to do away with.
1146  
1147  Abrogation (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.
1148  
1149  "Abrogative (a.) Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law."
1150  
1151  Abrogator (n.) One who repeals by authority.
1152  
1153  Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
1154  
1155  Abrook (v. t.) To brook; to endure.
1156  
1157  "Abrupt (a.) Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places."
1158  
1159  Abrupt (a.) Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
1160  
1161  Abrupt (a.) Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
1162  
1163  "Abrupt (a.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off."
1164  
1165  Abrupt (n.) An abrupt place.
1166  
1167  Abrupt (v. t.) To tear off or asunder.
1168  
1169  Abruption (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
1170  
1171  "Abruptly (adv.) In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly."
1172  
1173  Abruptly (adv.) Precipitously.
1174  
1175  Abruptness (n.) The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
1176  
1177  "Abruptness (n.) Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner."
1178  
1179  Abscesses (pl. ) of Abscess
1180  
1181  "Abscess (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process."
1182  
1183  "Abscession (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess."
1184  
1185  Abscind (v. t.) To cut off.
1186  
1187  Abscision (n.) See Abscission.
1188  
1189  Abscisses (pl. ) of Absciss
1190  
1191  Absciss (n.) See Abscissa.
1192  
1193  Abscissas (pl. ) of Abscissa
1194  
1195  Abscissae (pl. ) of Abscissa
1196  
1197  "Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes."
1198  
1199  Abscission (n.) The act or process of cutting off.
1200  
1201  Abscission (n.) The state of being cut off.
1202  
1203  "Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, ""He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."""
1204  
1205  Absconded (imp. & p. p.) of Abscond
1206  
1207  Absconding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abscond
1208  
1209  "Abscond (v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed."
1210  
1211  "Abscond (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor."
1212  
1213  Abscond (v. t.) To hide; to conceal.
1214  
1215  Abscondence (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
1216  
1217  Absconder (n.) One who absconds.
1218  
1219  Absence (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
1220  
1221  Absence (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
1222  
1223  "Absence (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind."
1224  
1225  Absent (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
1226  
1227  "Absent (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent."
1228  
1229  "Absent (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air."
1230  
1231  Absented (imp. & p. p.) of Absent
1232  
1233  Absenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absent
1234  
1235  Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
1236  
1237  Absent (v. t.) To withhold from being present.
1238  
1239  Absentaneous (a.) Pertaining to absence.
1240  
1241  Absentation (n.) The act of absenting one's self.
1242  
1243  "Absentee (n.) 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."
1244  
1245  Absenteeism (n.) 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.
1246  
1247  Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.
1248  
1249  Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
1250  
1251  Absentment (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.
1252  
1253  Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
1254  
1255  Absentness (n.) The quality of being absent-minded.
1256  
1257  Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.
1258  
1259  Absinthate (n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
1260  
1261  Absinth (n.) Alt. of Absinthe
1262  
1263  Absinthe (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
1264  
1265  Absinthe (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.
1266  
1267  Absinthial (a.) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.
1268  
1269  Absinthian (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.
1270  
1271  Absinthiate (v. t.) To impregnate with wormwood.
1272  
1273  "Absinthiated (a.) Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine."
1274  
1275  Absinthic (a.) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
1276  
1277  Absinthin (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).
1278  
1279  Absinthism (n.) The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.
1280  
1281  "Absinthium (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood."
1282  
1283  Absis (n.) See Apsis.
1284  
1285  Absist (v. i.) To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.
1286  
1287  Absistence (n.) A standing aloof.
1288  
1289  "Absolute (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch."
1290  
1291  "Absolute (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty."
1292  
1293  "Absolute (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space."
1294  
1295  "Absolute (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing."
1296  
1297  Absolute (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
1298  
1299  Absolute (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
1300  
1301  Absolute (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
1302  
1303  "Absolute (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol."
1304  
1305  "Absolute (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative."
1306  
1307  "Absolute (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity."
1308  
1309  "Absolutely (adv.) In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively."
1310  
1311  Absoluteness (n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
1312  
1313  "Absolution (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense."
1314  
1315  "Absolution (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent."
1316  
1317  "Absolution (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven."
1318  
1319  "Absolution (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication."
1320  
1321  Absolution (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
1322  
1323  "Absolution (n.) Delivery, in speech."
1324  
1325  Absolutism (n.) The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
1326  
1327  Absolutism (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
1328  
1329  Absolutist (n.) One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
1330  
1331  Absolutist (n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
1332  
1333  "Absolutist (a.) Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles."
1334  
1335  Absolutistic (a.) Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.
1336  
1337  Absolutory (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving.
1338  
1339  Absolvable (a.) That may be absolved.
1340  
1341  Absolvatory (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory.
1342  
1343  Absolved (imp. & p. p.) of Absolve
1344  
1345  Absolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absolve
1346  
1347  "Absolve (v. t.) 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."
1348  
1349  Absolve (v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
1350  
1351  Absolve (v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.
1352  
1353  Absolve (v. t.) To resolve or explain.
1354  
1355  Absolvent (a.) Absolving.
1356  
1357  Absolvent (n.) An absolver.
1358  
1359  Absolver (n.) One who absolves.
1360  
1361  Absonant (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
1362  
1363  Absonous (a.) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
1364  
1365  Absorbed (imp. & p. p.) of Absorb
1366  
1367  Absorbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absorb
1368  
1369  Absorb (v. t.) To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
1370  
1371  Absorb (v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
1372  
1373  "Absorb (v. t.) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth."
1374  
1375  "Absorb (v. t.) To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass."
1376  
1377  Absorbability (n.) The state or quality of being absorbable.
1378  
1379  Absorbable (a.) Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
1380  
1381  Absorbedly (adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
1382  
1383  Absorbency (n.) Absorptiveness.
1384  
1385  Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
1386  
1387  Absorbent (n.) Anything which absorbs.
1388  
1389  "Absorbent (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts."
1390  
1391  "Absorbent (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants."
1392  
1393  "Absorber (n.) One who, or that which, absorbs."
1394  
1395  "Absorbing (a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit."
1396  
1397  Absorbition (n.) Absorption.
1398  
1399  Absorpt (a.) Absorbed.
1400  
1401  "Absorption (n.) 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."
1402  
1403  "Absorption (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc."
1404  
1405  "Absorption (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs."
1406  
1407  "Absorption (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment."
1408  
1409  "Absorptive (a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe."
1410  
1411  Absorptiveness (n.) The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
1412  
1413  Absorptivity (n.) Absorptiveness.
1414  
1415  Absquatulate (v. i.) To take one's self off; to decamp.
1416  
1417  "Absque hoc () The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated."
1418  
1419  Abstained (imp. & p. p.) of Abstain
1420  
1421  Abstaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstain
1422  
1423  "Abstain (v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from."
1424  
1425  Abstain (v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.
1426  
1427  "Abstainer (n.) One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors."
1428  
1429  Abstemious (a.) Abstaining from wine.
1430  
1431  Abstemious (a.) Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
1432  
1433  "Abstemious (a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet."
1434  
1435  "Abstemious (a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life."
1436  
1437  Abstemious (a.) Promotive of abstemiousness.
1438  
1439  "Abstemiousness (n.) 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."
1440  
1441  Abstention (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
1442  
1443  Abstentious (a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
1444  
1445  "Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge."
1446  
1447  "Abstergent (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent."
1448  
1449  "Abstergent (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent."
1450  
1451  Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
1452  
1453  Abstersion (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
1454  
1455  Abstersive (a.) Cleansing; purging.
1456  
1457  Abstersive (n.) Something cleansing.
1458  
1459  Abstersiveness (n.) The quality of being abstersive.
1460  
1461  "Abstinence (n.) 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."
1462  
1463  "Abstinence (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat."
1464  
1465  Abstinency (n.) Abstinence.
1466  
1467  "Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate."
1468  
1469  Abstinent (n.) One who abstains.
1470  
1471  Abstinent (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
1472  
1473  Abstinently (adv.) With abstinence.
1474  
1475  Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.
1476  
1477  Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.
1478  
1479  "Abstract (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult."
1480  
1481  "Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word."
1482  
1483  "Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, ""reptile"" is an abstract or general name."
1484  
1485  Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
1486  
1487  Abstracted (imp. & p. p.) of Abstract
1488  
1489  Abstracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstract
1490  
1491  Abstract (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
1492  
1493  "Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects."
1494  
1495  "Abstract (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute."
1496  
1497  Abstract (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
1498  
1499  "Abstract (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till."
1500  
1501  "Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used."
1502  
1503  Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
1504  
1505  "Abstract (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief."
1506  
1507  "Abstract (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things."
1508  
1509  Abstract (a.) An abstract term.
1510  
1511  Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
1512  
1513  Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
1514  
1515  Abstracted (a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
1516  
1517  Abstracted (a.) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
1518  
1519  Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
1520  
1521  Abstractedly (adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
1522  
1523  Abstractedness (n.) The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
1524  
1525  "Abstracter (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract."
1526  
1527  "Abstraction (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal."
1528  
1529  "Abstraction (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects."
1530  
1531  "Abstraction (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions."
1532  
1533  "Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction."
1534  
1535  Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
1536  
1537  Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
1538  
1539  Abstraction (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
1540  
1541  Abstractional (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.
1542  
1543  Abstractionist (n.) An idealist.
1544  
1545  Abstractitious (a.) Obtained from plants by distillation.
1546  
1547  Abstractive (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
1548  
1549  Abstractively (adv.) In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
1550  
1551  Abstractiveness (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
1552  
1553  "Abstractly (adv.) In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered."
1554  
1555  Abstractness (n.) The quality of being abstract.
1556  
1557  Abstringe (v. t.) To unbind.
1558  
1559  Abstrude (v. t.) To thrust away.
1560  
1561  Abstruse (a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way.
1562  
1563  "Abstruse (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning."
1564  
1565  Abstrusely (adv.) In an abstruse manner.
1566  
1567  Abstruseness (n.) The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
1568  
1569  Abstrusion (n.) The act of thrusting away.
1570  
1571  Abstrusity (n.) Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
1572  
1573  Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
1574  
1575  Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
1576  
1577  "Absurd (a.) 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."
1578  
1579  Absurd (n.) An absurdity.
1580  
1581  Absurdities (pl. ) of Absurdity
1582  
1583  "Absurdity (n.) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment."
1584  
1585  Absurdity (n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
1586  
1587  Absurdly (adv.) In an absurd manner.
1588  
1589  Absurdness (n.) Absurdity.
1590  
1591  "Abuna (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church."
1592  
1593  "Abundance (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number."
1594  
1595  "Abundant (a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with."
1596  
1597  Abundantly (adv.) In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
1598  
1599  Aburst (adv.) In a bursting condition.
1600  
1601  Abusable (a.) That may be abused.
1602  
1603  Abusage (n.) Abuse.
1604  
1605  Abused (imp. & p. p.) of Abuse
1606  
1607  Abusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abuse
1608  
1609  "Abuse (v. t.) 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."
1610  
1611  "Abuse (v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience."
1612  
1613  Abuse (v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
1614  
1615  Abuse (v. t.) To dishonor.
1616  
1617  Abuse (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
1618  
1619  Abuse (v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.
1620  
1621  "Abuse (v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language."
1622  
1623  Abuse (v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.
1624  
1625  "Abuse (v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service."
1626  
1627  "Abuse (v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling."
1628  
1629  "Abuse (v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child."
1630  
1631  Abuseful (a.) Full of abuse; abusive.
1632  
1633  Abuser (n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
1634  
1635  Abusion (v. t.) Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
1636  
1637  Abusive (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
1638  
1639  "Abusive (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses."
1640  
1641  "Abusive (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow."
1642  
1643  "Abusive (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous."
1644  
1645  Abusive (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
1646  
1647  Abusively (adv.) In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
1648  
1649  "Abusiveness (n.) The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person."
1650  
1651  Abutted (imp. & p. p.) of Abut
1652  
1653  Abutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abut
1654  
1655  "Abut (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road."
1656  
1657  "Abutilon (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow."
1658  
1659  Abutment (n.) State of abutting.
1660  
1661  Abutment (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
1662  
1663  "Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut."
1664  
1665  "Abutment (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc."
1666  
1667  "Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil."
1668  
1669  "Abuttal (n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland."
1670  
1671  "Abutter (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river."
1672  
1673  Abuzz (a.) In a buzz; buzzing.
1674  
1675  Abought (imp. & p. p.) of Abye
1676  
1677  Aby (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye
1678  
1679  Abye (v. t. & i.) To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
1680  
1681  Abye (v. t. & i.) To endure; to abide.
1682  
1683  Abysm (n.) An abyss; a gulf.
1684  
1685  "Abysmal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound."
1686  
1687  Abysmally (adv.) To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
1688  
1689  "Abyss (n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit."
1690  
1691  Abyss (n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
1692  
1693  Abyss (n.) The center of an escutcheon.
1694  
1695  "Abyssal (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable."
1696  
1697  Abyssinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
1698  
1699  Abyssinian (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
1700  
1701  Abyssinian (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
1702  
1703  "Acacia (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals."
1704  
1705  Acacias (pl. ) of Acacia
1706  
1707  Acaciae (pl. ) of Acacia
1708  
1709  "Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates."
1710  
1711  "Acacia (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic."
1712  
1713  Acacin (n.) Alt. of Acacine
1714  
1715  Acacine (n.) Gum arabic.
1716  
1717  Academe (n.) An academy.
1718  
1719  Academial (a.) Academic.
1720  
1721  "Academian (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college."
1722  
1723  Academic (a.) Alt. of Academical
1724  
1725  "Academical (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy."
1726  
1727  "Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific."
1728  
1729  Academic (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
1730  
1731  "Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician."
1732  
1733  Academically (adv.) In an academical manner.
1734  
1735  Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
1736  
1737  "Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts."
1738  
1739  Academician (n.) A collegian.
1740  
1741  Academicism (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
1742  
1743  Academicism (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
1744  
1745  Academism (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.
1746  
1747  Academist (n.) An Academic philosopher.
1748  
1749  Academist (n.) An academician.
1750  
1751  Academies (pl. ) of Academy
1752  
1753  "Academy (n.) 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."
1754  
1755  "Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school."
1756  
1757  Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.
1758  
1759  "Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology."
1760  
1761  "Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music."
1762  
1763  "Acadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia."
1764  
1765  Acadian (n.) A native of Acadie.
1766  
1767  "Acajou (n.) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew."
1768  
1769  "Acajou (n.) The mahogany tree; also, its timber."
1770  
1771  Acalephs (pl. ) of Acalephan
1772  
1773  Acalephans (pl. ) of Acalephan
1774  
1775  Acaleph (n.) Alt. of Acalephan
1776  
1777  Acalephan (n.) One of the Acalephae.
1778  
1779  "Acalephae (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles."
1780  
1781  Acalephoid (a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.
1782  
1783  Acalycine (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous
1784  
1785  "Acalysinous (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope."
1786  
1787  Acanth (n.) Same as Acanthus.
1788  
1789  Acantha (n.) A prickle.
1790  
1791  Acantha (n.) A spine or prickly fin.
1792  
1793  Acantha (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
1794  
1795  "Acanthaceous (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant."
1796  
1797  "Acanthaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type."
1798  
1799  "Acanthine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus."
1800  
1801  Acanthocarpous (a.) Having the fruit covered with spines.
1802  
1803  "Acanthocephala (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines."
1804  
1805  "Acanthocephalous (a.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala."
1806  
1807  Acanthophorous (a.) Spine-bearing.
1808  
1809  Acanthopodious (a.) Having spinous petioles.
1810  
1811  Acanthopteri (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
1812  
1813  Acanthopterous (a.) Spiny-winged.
1814  
1815  Acanthopterous (a.) Acanthopterygious.
1816  
1817  "Acanthopterygian (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch."
1818  
1819  Acanthopterygian (n.) A spiny-finned fish.
1820  
1821  "Acanthopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch."
1822  
1823  Acanthopterygious (a.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.
1824  
1825  Acanthuses (pl. ) of Acanthus
1826  
1827  Acanthi (pl. ) of Acanthus
1828  
1829  "Acanthus (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech."
1830  
1831  Acanthus (n.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
1832  
1833  "A cappella () 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."
1834  
1835  "A cappella () A time indication, equivalent to alla breve."
1836  
1837  Acapsular (a.) Having no capsule.
1838  
1839  "Acardiac (a.) Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus."
1840  
1841  "Acaridan (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks."
1842  
1843  "Acarina (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange."
1844  
1845  "Acarine (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases."
1846  
1847  Acaroid (a.) Shaped like or resembling a mite.
1848  
1849  Acarpellous (a.) Having no carpels.
1850  
1851  Acarpous (a.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
1852  
1853  Acari (pl. ) of Acarus
1854  
1855  Acarus (n.) A genus including many species of small mites.
1856  
1857  "Acatalectic (a.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse."
1858  
1859  Acatalectic (n.) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.
1860  
1861  "Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability."
1862  
1863  Acataleptic (a.) Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.
1864  
1865  Acater (n.) See Caterer.
1866  
1867  Acates (n. pl.) See Cates.
1868  
1869  Acaudate (a.) Tailless.
1870  
1871  "Acaulescent (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground."
1872  
1873  Acauline (a.) Same as Acaulescent.
1874  
1875  Acaulose (a.) Alt. of Acaulous
1876  
1877  Acaulous (a.) Same as Acaulescent.
1878  
1879  Accadian (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
1880  
1881  Acceded (imp. & p. p.) of Accede
1882  
1883  Acceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accede
1884  
1885  Accede (v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
1886  
1887  Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
1888  
1889  "Accede (v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request."
1890  
1891  Accedence (n.) The act of acceding.
1892  
1893  Acceder (n.) One who accedes.
1894  
1895  Accelerando (a.) Gradually accelerating the movement.
1896  
1897  Accelerated (imp. & p. p.) of Accelerate
1898  
1899  Accelerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accelerate
1900  
1901  Accelerate (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
1902  
1903  "Accelerate (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc."
1904  
1905  "Accelerate (v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure."
1906  
1907  "Acceleration (n.) 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."
1908  
1909  Accelerative (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
1910  
1911  "Accelerator (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves."
1912  
1913  Acceleratory (a.) Accelerative.
1914  
1915  "Accelerograph (n.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc."
1916  
1917  Accelerometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.
1918  
1919  Accend (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle.
1920  
1921  "Accendibility (n.) Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability."
1922  
1923  Accendible (a.) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.
1924  
1925  Accension (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
1926  
1927  Accensor (n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
1928  
1929  "Accent (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others."
1930  
1931  "Accent (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents."
1932  
1933  "Accent (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent."
1934  
1935  Accent (n.) A word; a significant tone
1936  
1937  Accent (n.) expressions in general; speech.
1938  
1939  Accent (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
1940  
1941  "Accent (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure."
1942  
1943  "Accent (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure."
1944  
1945  "Accent (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period."
1946  
1947  Accent (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
1948  
1949  "Accent (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''."
1950  
1951  "Accent (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds."
1952  
1953  "Accent (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches."
1954  
1955  Accented (imp. & p. p.) of Accent
1956  
1957  Accenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accent
1958  
1959  Accent (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
1960  
1961  Accent (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
1962  
1963  Accentless (a.) Without accent.
1964  
1965  Accentor (n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
1966  
1967  "Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes."
1968  
1969  Accentuable (a.) Capable of being accented.
1970  
1971  Accentual (a.) Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
1972  
1973  Accentuality (n.) The quality of being accentual.
1974  
1975  Accentually (adv.) In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
1976  
1977  Accentuated (imp. & p. p.) of Accentuate
1978  
1979  Accentuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accentuate
1980  
1981  Accentuate (v. t.) To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
1982  
1983  Accentuate (v. t.) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
1984  
1985  Accentuate (v. t.) To mark with the written accent.
1986  
1987  Accentuation (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
1988  
1989  Accentuation (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
1990  
1991  Accepted (imp. & p. p.) of Accept
1992  
1993  Accepting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accept
1994  
1995  "Accept (v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of."
1996  
1997  Accept (v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
1998  
1999  "Accept (v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse."
2000  
2001  "Accept (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?"
2002  
2003  "Accept (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange."
2004  
2005  "Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]"
2006  
2007  Accept (a.) Accepted.
2008  
2009  Acceptability (n.) The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
2010  
2011  "Acceptable (a.) 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."
2012  
2013  "Acceptableness (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability."
2014  
2015  Acceptably (adv.) In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.
2016  
2017  "Acceptance (n.) 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."
2018  
2019  Acceptance (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
2020  
2021  "Acceptance (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance."
2022  
2023  Acceptance (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
2024  
2025  "Acceptance (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner."
2026  
2027  "Acceptance (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law."
2028  
2029  Acceptance (n.) Meaning; acceptation.
2030  
2031  Acceptancy (n.) Acceptance.
2032  
2033  Acceptant (a.) Accepting; receiving.
2034  
2035  Acceptant (n.) An accepter.
2036  
2037  Acceptation (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
2038  
2039  "Acceptation (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation."
2040  
2041  Acceptedly (adv.) In a accepted manner; admittedly.
2042  
2043  Accepter (n.) A person who accepts; a taker.
2044  
2045  Accepter (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.
2046  
2047  Accepter (n.) An acceptor.
2048  
2049  Acceptilation (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
2050  
2051  Acception (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning.
2052  
2053  Acceptive (a.) Fit for acceptance.
2054  
2055  Acceptive (a.) Ready to accept.
2056  
2057  Acceptor (n.) One who accepts
2058  
2059  Acceptor (n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
2060  
2061  "Access (n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince."
2062  
2063  "Access (n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land."
2064  
2065  Access (n.) Admission to sexual intercourse.
2066  
2067  "Access (n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]"
2068  
2069  "Access (n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease."
2070  
2071  "Access (n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury."
2072  
2073  Accessarily (adv.) In the manner of an accessary.
2074  
2075  Accessariness (n.) The state of being accessary.
2076  
2077  "Accessary (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory."
2078  
2079  Accessaries (pl. ) of Accessary
2080  
2081  "Accessary (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense."
2082  
2083  "Accessibility (n.) The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility."
2084  
2085  "Accessible (a.) Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person."
2086  
2087  Accessible (a.) Open to the influence of; -- with to.
2088  
2089  Accessible (a.) Obtainable; to be got at.
2090  
2091  Accessibly (adv.) In an accessible manner.
2092  
2093  "Accession (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy."
2094  
2095  "Accession (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory."
2096  
2097  "Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf."
2098  
2099  Accession (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
2100  
2101  "Accession (n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty."
2102  
2103  "Accession (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm."
2104  
2105  Accessional (a.) Pertaining to accession; additional.
2106  
2107  Accessive (a.) Additional.
2108  
2109  "Accessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt."
2110  
2111  Accessorily (adv.) In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
2112  
2113  "Accessoriness (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately."
2114  
2115  "Accessory (a.) 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."
2116  
2117  Accessories (pl. ) of Accessory
2118  
2119  Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
2120  
2121  "Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n."
2122  
2123  "Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts."
2124  
2125  "Acciaccatura (n.) 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."
2126  
2127  "Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar."
2128  
2129  Accidence (n.) The rudiments of any subject.
2130  
2131  "Accident (n.) 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."
2132  
2133  "Accident (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case."
2134  
2135  Accident (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
2136  
2137  "Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute."
2138  
2139  "Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness."
2140  
2141  "Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident."
2142  
2143  Accident (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.
2144  
2145  "Accidental (a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit."
2146  
2147  "Accidental (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play."
2148  
2149  Accidental (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
2150  
2151  Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
2152  
2153  "Accidental (n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note."
2154  
2155  Accidentalism (n.) Accidental character or effect.
2156  
2157  Accidentality (n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.
2158  
2159  Accidentally (adv.) In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
2160  
2161  Accidentalness (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness.
2162  
2163  Accidie (n.) Sloth; torpor.
2164  
2165  Accipenser (n.) See Acipenser.
2166  
2167  Accipient (n.) A receiver.
2168  
2169  Accipiters (pl. ) of Accipiter
2170  
2171  Accipitres (pl. ) of Accipiter
2172  
2173  Accipiter (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
2174  
2175  "Accipiter (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk."
2176  
2177  "Accipitral (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike."
2178  
2179  "Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls."
2180  
2181  Accipitrine (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
2182  
2183  Accismus (n.) Affected refusal; coyness.
2184  
2185  Accite (v. t.) To cite; to summon.
2186  
2187  Acclaim (v. t.) To applaud.
2188  
2189  Acclaim (v. t.) To declare by acclamations.
2190  
2191  "Acclaim (v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy."
2192  
2193  Acclaim (v. i.) To shout applause.
2194  
2195  Acclaim (n.) Acclamation.
2196  
2197  Acclaimer (n.) One who acclaims.
2198  
2199  "Acclamation (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause."
2200  
2201  "Acclamation (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy."
2202  
2203  "Acclamatory (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation."
2204  
2205  Acclimatable (a.) Capable of being acclimated.
2206  
2207  Acclimatation (n.) Acclimatization.
2208  
2209  Acclimated (imp. & p. p.) of Acclimate
2210  
2211  Acclimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimate
2212  
2213  Acclimate (v. t.) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
2214  
2215  Acclimatement (n.) Acclimation.
2216  
2217  "Acclimation (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization."
2218  
2219  Acclimatizable (a.) Capable of being acclimatized.
2220  
2221  "Acclimatization (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured."
2222  
2223  Acclimatized (imp. & p. p.) of Acclimatize
2224  
2225  Acclimatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimatize
2226  
2227  "Acclimatize (v. t.) 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."
2228  
2229  "Acclimature (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated."
2230  
2231  Acclive (a.) Acclivous.
2232  
2233  Acclivitous (a.) Acclivous.
2234  
2235  Acclivities (pl. ) of Acclivity
2236  
2237  "Acclivity (n.) 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."
2238  
2239  Acclivous (a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.
2240  
2241  Accloy (v. t.) To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.
2242  
2243  Accoast (v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.
2244  
2245  Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.
2246  
2247  Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
2248  
2249  "Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword."
2250  
2251  Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
2252  
2253  Accombination (n.) A combining together.
2254  
2255  "Accommodable (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree."
2256  
2257  Accommodableness (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable.
2258  
2259  Accommodated (imp. & p. p.) of Accommodate
2260  
2261  Accommodating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate
2262  
2263  "Accommodate (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances."
2264  
2265  "Accommodate (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc."
2266  
2267  "Accommodate (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings."
2268  
2269  "Accommodate (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events."
2270  
2271  Accommodate (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
2272  
2273  "Accommodate (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end."
2274  
2275  Accommodately (adv.) Suitably; fitly.
2276  
2277  Accommodateness (n.) Fitness.
2278  
2279  "Accommodating (a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement."
2280  
2281  "Accommodation (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to."
2282  
2283  Accommodation (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
2284  
2285  "Accommodation (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn."
2286  
2287  Accommodation (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
2288  
2289  "Accommodation (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended."
2290  
2291  Accommodation (n.) A loan of money.
2292  
2293  Accommodation (n.) An accommodation bill or note.
2294  
2295  "Accommodator (n.) He who, or that which, accommodates."
2296  
2297  Accompanable (a.) Sociable.
2298  
2299  "Accompanier (n.) He who, or that which, accompanies."
2300  
2301  "Accompaniment (n.) 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."
2302  
2303  "Accompaniment (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass."
2304  
2305  Accompanist (n.) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
2306  
2307  Accompanied (imp. & p. p.) of Accompany
2308  
2309  Accompanying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accompany
2310  
2311  "Accompany (v. t.) 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."
2312  
2313  Accompany (v. t.) To cohabit with.
2314  
2315  Accompany (v. i.) To associate in a company; to keep company.
2316  
2317  Accompany (v. i.) To cohabit (with).
2318  
2319  Accompany (v. i.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
2320  
2321  Accompletive (a.) Tending to accomplish.
2322  
2323  Accomplice (n.) A cooperator.
2324  
2325  "Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory."
2326  
2327  Accompliceship (n.) The state of being an accomplice.
2328  
2329  Accomplicity (n.) The act or state of being an accomplice.
2330  
2331  Accomplished (imp. & p. p.) of Accomplish
2332  
2333  Accomplishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accomplish
2334  
2335  "Accomplish (v. t.) To complete, as time or distance."
2336  
2337  "Accomplish (v. t.) To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise."
2338  
2339  "Accomplish (v. t.) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish."
2340  
2341  Accomplish (v. t.) To gain; to obtain.
2342  
2343  Accomplishable (a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
2344  
2345  "Accomplished (a.) Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact."
2346  
2347  "Accomplished (a.) Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain."
2348  
2349  Accomplisher (n.) One who accomplishes.
2350  
2351  "Accomplishment (n.) The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc."
2352  
2353  "Accomplishment (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training."
2354  
2355  Accompt (n.) See Account.
2356  
2357  Accomptable (a.) See Accountable.
2358  
2359  Accomptant (n.) See Accountant.
2360  
2361  "Accord (v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent."
2362  
2363  "Accord (v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones."
2364  
2365  "Accord (v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting."
2366  
2367  "Accord (v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord."
2368  
2369  "Accord (v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit."
2370  
2371  Accorded (imp. & p. p.) of Accord
2372  
2373  According (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accord
2374  
2375  Accord (v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
2376  
2377  "Accord (v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies."
2378  
2379  "Accord (v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise."
2380  
2381  "Accord (v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks."
2382  
2383  Accord (v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.
2384  
2385  Accordable (a.) Agreeing.
2386  
2387  Accordable (a.) Reconcilable; in accordance.
2388  
2389  Accordance (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.
2390  
2391  Accordancy (n.) Accordance.
2392  
2393  Accordant (a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.
2394  
2395  Accordantly (adv.) In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
2396  
2397  "Accorder (n.) One who accords, assents, or concedes."
2398  
2399  According (p. a.) Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
2400  
2401  According (adv.) Accordingly; correspondingly.
2402  
2403  Accordingly (adv.) Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.
2404  
2405  Accordingly (adv.) In natural sequence; consequently; so.
2406  
2407  "Accordion (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds."
2408  
2409  Accordionist (n.) A player on the accordion.
2410  
2411  Accordment (v.) Agreement; reconcilement.
2412  
2413  Accorporate (v. t.) To unite; to attach; to incorporate.
2414  
2415  Accosted (imp. & p. p.) of Accost
2416  
2417  Accosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accost
2418  
2419  "Accost (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of."
2420  
2421  Accost (v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
2422  
2423  Accost (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
2424  
2425  Accost (v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
2426  
2427  Accost (n.) Address; greeting.
2428  
2429  Accostable (a.) Approachable; affable.
2430  
2431  "Accosted (a.) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side."
2432  
2433  Accouchement (n.) Delivery in childbed
2434  
2435  Accoucheur (n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
2436  
2437  Accoucheuse (n.) A midwife.
2438  
2439  "Account (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time."
2440  
2441  "Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank."
2442  
2443  "Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts."
2444  
2445  "Account (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle."
2446  
2447  Account (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
2448  
2449  Account (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
2450  
2451  Account (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
2452  
2453  Accounted (imp. & p. p.) of Account
2454  
2455  Accounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Account
2456  
2457  Account (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
2458  
2459  Account (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
2460  
2461  "Account (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem."
2462  
2463  Account (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
2464  
2465  "Account (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received."
2466  
2467  "Account (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities."
2468  
2469  "Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty."
2470  
2471  Accountability (n.) The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
2472  
2473  "Accountable (a.) Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct."
2474  
2475  Accountable (a.) Capable of being accounted for; explicable.
2476  
2477  Accountable ness (n.) The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
2478  
2479  Accountably (adv.) In an accountable manner.
2480  
2481  Accountancy (n.) The art or employment of an accountant.
2482  
2483  Accountant (n.) One who renders account; one accountable.
2484  
2485  Accountant (n.) A reckoner.
2486  
2487  "Accountant (n.) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts."
2488  
2489  Accountant (a.) Accountable.
2490  
2491  Accountantship (n.) The office or employment of an accountant.
2492  
2493  Account book () A book in which accounts are kept.
2494  
2495  Accouple (v. t.) To join; to couple.
2496  
2497  "Accouplement (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union."
2498  
2499  "Accouplement (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace."
2500  
2501  Accourage (v. t.) To encourage.
2502  
2503  Accourt (v. t.) To treat courteously; to court.
2504  
2505  Accoutered (imp. & p. p.) of Accoutre
2506  
2507  Accoutred () of Accoutre
2508  
2509  Accoutering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accoutre
2510  
2511  Accoutring () of Accoutre
2512  
2513  Accouter (v. t.) Alt. of Accoutre
2514  
2515  "Accoutre (v. t.) To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array."
2516  
2517  Accouterments (n. pl.) Alt. of Accoutrements
2518  
2519  "Accoutrements (n. pl.) Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers."
2520  
2521  Accoy (v. t.) To render quiet; to soothe.
2522  
2523  Accoy (v. t.) To subdue; to tame; to daunt.
2524  
2525  Accredited (imp. & p. p.) of Accredit
2526  
2527  Accrediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accredit
2528  
2529  Accredit (v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
2530  
2531  "Accredit (v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate."
2532  
2533  Accredit (v. t.) To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
2534  
2535  "Accredit (v. t.) To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one."
2536  
2537  "Accreditation (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation."
2538  
2539  Accrementitial (a.) Pertaining to accremention.
2540  
2541  "Accrementition (n.) 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."
2542  
2543  Accresce (v. i.) To accrue.
2544  
2545  Accresce (v. i.) To increase; to grow.
2546  
2547  Accrescence (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion.
2548  
2549  Accrescent (a.) Growing; increasing.
2550  
2551  Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.
2552  
2553  Accrete (v. i.) To grow together.
2554  
2555  Accrete (v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.
2556  
2557  Accrete (v. t.) To make adhere; to add.
2558  
2559  "Accrete (a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter."
2560  
2561  Accrete (a.) Grown together.
2562  
2563  Accretion (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
2564  
2565  "Accretion (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth."
2566  
2567  "Accretion (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass."
2568  
2569  "Accretion (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes."
2570  
2571  "Accretion (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark."
2572  
2573  "Accretion (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share."
2574  
2575  "Accretive (a.) Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth."
2576  
2577  Accriminate (v. t.) To accuse of a crime.
2578  
2579  "Accroach (v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook."
2580  
2581  "Accroach (v. t.) To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives."
2582  
2583  Accroachment (n.) An encroachment; usurpation.
2584  
2585  Accrual (n.) Accrument.
2586  
2587  Accrued (imp. & p. p.) of Accrue
2588  
2589  Accruing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accrue
2590  
2591  Accrue (n.) To increase; to augment.
2592  
2593  "Accrue (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent."
2594  
2595  Accrue (n.) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
2596  
2597  "Accruer (n.) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer."
2598  
2599  "Accrument (n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase."
2600  
2601  "Accubation (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals."
2602  
2603  "Accumb (v. i.) To recline, as at table."
2604  
2605  Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
2606  
2607  "Accumbent (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals."
2608  
2609  "Accumbent (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf."
2610  
2611  Accumbent (n.) One who reclines at table.
2612  
2613  Accumber (v. t.) To encumber.
2614  
2615  Accumulated (imp. & p. p.) of Accumulate
2616  
2617  Accumulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accumulate
2618  
2619  "Accumulate (v. t.) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money."
2620  
2621  Accumulate (v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
2622  
2623  Accumulate (a.) Collected; accumulated.
2624  
2625  "Accumulation (n.) 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."
2626  
2627  Accumulation (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
2628  
2629  Accumulative (a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.
2630  
2631  "Accumulator (n.) One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses."
2632  
2633  "Accumulator (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc."
2634  
2635  "Accumulator (n.) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging."
2636  
2637  "Accuracy (n.) 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."
2638  
2639  "Accurate (a.) 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."
2640  
2641  Accurate (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
2642  
2643  Accurately (adv.) In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
2644  
2645  Accurateness (n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
2646  
2647  Accurse (v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
2648  
2649  Accursed (p. p. & a.) Alt. of Accurst
2650  
2651  "Accurst (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed."
2652  
2653  Accusable (a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.
2654  
2655  Accusal (n.) Accusation.
2656  
2657  Accusant (n.) An accuser.
2658  
2659  Accusation (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
2660  
2661  "Accusation (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge."
2662  
2663  Accusatival (a.) Pertaining to the accusative case.
2664  
2665  Accusative (a.) Producing accusations; accusatory.
2666  
2667  "Accusative (a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English."
2668  
2669  Accusative (n.) The accusative case.
2670  
2671  Accusatively (adv.) In an accusative manner.
2672  
2673  Accusatively (adv.) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
2674  
2675  Accusatorial (a.) Accusatory.
2676  
2677  Accusatorially (adv.) By way accusation.
2678  
2679  "Accusatory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel."
2680  
2681  Accuse (n.) Accusation.
2682  
2683  Accused (imp. & p. p.) of Accuse
2684  
2685  Accusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accuse
2686  
2687  "Accuse (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense"
2688  
2689  "Accuse (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor."
2690  
2691  Accuse (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
2692  
2693  Accuse (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
2694  
2695  "Accused (a.) Charged with offense; as, an accused person."
2696  
2697  Accusement (n.) Accusation.
2698  
2699  Accuser (n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
2700  
2701  Accusingly (adv.) In an accusing manner.
2702  
2703  Accustomed (imp. & p. p.) of Accustom
2704  
2705  Accustoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accustom
2706  
2707  "Accustom (v. t.) To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to."
2708  
2709  Accustom (v. i.) To be wont.
2710  
2711  Accustom (v. i.) To cohabit.
2712  
2713  Accustom (n.) Custom.
2714  
2715  Accustomable (a.) Habitual; customary; wonted.
2716  
2717  Accustomably (adv.) According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
2718  
2719  Accustomance (n.) Custom; habitual use.
2720  
2721  Accustomarily (adv.) Customarily.
2722  
2723  Accustomary (a.) Usual; customary.
2724  
2725  Accustomed (a.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
2726  
2727  Accustomed (a.) Frequented by customers.
2728  
2729  Accustomedness (n.) Habituation.
2730  
2731  Aces (pl. ) of Ace
2732  
2733  "Ace (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds."
2734  
2735  Ace (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
2736  
2737  "Aceldama (n.) 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."
2738  
2739  Acentric (a.) Not centered; without a center.
2740  
2741  Acephal (n.) One of the Acephala.
2742  
2743  "Acephala (n. pl.) 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."
2744  
2745  Acephalan (n.) Same as Acephal.
2746  
2747  Acephalan (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.
2748  
2749  Acephali (n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
2750  
2751  Acephali (n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
2752  
2753  Acephali (n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
2754  
2755  Acephali (n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
2756  
2757  Acephalist (n.) One who acknowledges no head or superior.
2758  
2759  "Acephalocyst (n.) 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."
2760  
2761  "Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts."
2762  
2763  Acephalous (a.) Headless.
2764  
2765  Acephalous (a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
2766  
2767  "Acephalous (a.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries."
2768  
2769  Acephalous (a.) Without a leader or chief.
2770  
2771  Acephalous (a.) Wanting the beginning.
2772  
2773  "Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry."
2774  
2775  Acerate (n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
2776  
2777  Acerate (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.
2778  
2779  "Acerb (a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh."
2780  
2781  Acerbate (v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
2782  
2783  Acerbic (a.) Sour or severe.
2784  
2785  Acerbitude (n.) Sourness and harshness.
2786  
2787  "Acerbity (n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit."
2788  
2789  "Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain."
2790  
2791  "Aceric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid."
2792  
2793  Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
2794  
2795  "Acerose (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine."
2796  
2797  Acerous (a.) Same as Acerose.
2798  
2799  "Acerous (a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks."
2800  
2801  "Acerous (a.) Without antennae, as some insects."
2802  
2803  Acerval (a.) Pertaining to a heap.
2804  
2805  Acervate (v. t.) To heap up.
2806  
2807  "Acervate (a.) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters."
2808  
2809  Acervation (n.) A heaping up; accumulation.
2810  
2811  Acervative (a.) Heaped up; tending to heap up.
2812  
2813  Acervose (a.) Full of heaps.
2814  
2815  Acervuline (a.) Resembling little heaps.
2816  
2817  Acescence (n.) Alt. of Acescency
2818  
2819  Acescency (n.) The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
2820  
2821  Acescent (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
2822  
2823  Acescent (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
2824  
2825  Acetable (n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
2826  
2827  Acetabular (a.) Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.
2828  
2829  "Acetabulifera (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda."
2830  
2831  "Acetabuliferous (a.) Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc."
2832  
2833  "Acetabuliform (a.) Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx."
2834  
2835  "Acetabulum (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc."
2836  
2837  Acetabulum (n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
2838  
2839  Acetabulum (n.) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
2840  
2841  Acetabulum (n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
2842  
2843  Acetabulum (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
2844  
2845  Acetabulum (n.) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
2846  
2847  "Acetal (n.) A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black."
2848  
2849  Acetaldehyde (n.) Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
2850  
2851  "Acetamide (n.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl."
2852  
2853  "Acetanilide (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine."
2854  
2855  "Acetarious (a.) Used in salads; as, acetarious plants."
2856  
2857  "Acetary (n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear."
2858  
2859  "Acetate (n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash."
2860  
2861  Acetated (a.) Combined with acetic acid.
2862  
2863  "Acetic (a.) Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation."
2864  
2865  "Acetic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due."
2866  
2867  "Acetification (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar."
2868  
2869  Acetifier (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification.
2870  
2871  Acetified (imp. & p. p.) of Acetify
2872  
2873  Acetifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acetify
2874  
2875  Acetify (v. t.) To convert into acid or vinegar.
2876  
2877  Acetify (v. i.) To turn acid.
2878  
2879  Acetimeter (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
2880  
2881  "Acetimetry (n.) The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it."
2882  
2883  Acetin (n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.
2884  
2885  Acetize (v. i.) To acetify.
2886  
2887  Acetometer (n.) Same as Acetimeter.
2888  
2889  "Acetone (n.) 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."
2890  
2891  "Acetonic (a.) Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies."
2892  
2893  Acetose (a.) Sour like vinegar; acetous.
2894  
2895  Acetosity (n.) The quality of being acetous; sourness.
2896  
2897  Acetous (a.) Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
2898  
2899  "Acetous (a.) Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation."
2900  
2901  "Acetyl (n.) A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid."
2902  
2903  "Acetylene (n.) 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."
2904  
2905  Ach (n.) Alt. of Ache
2906  
2907  "Ache (n.) A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley."
2908  
2909  Achaean (a.) Alt. of Achaian
2910  
2911  "Achaian (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian."
2912  
2913  Achaian (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.
2914  
2915  Acharnement (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity.
2916  
2917  Achate (n.) An agate.
2918  
2919  Achate (n.) Purchase; bargaining.
2920  
2921  Achate (n.) Provisions. Same as Cates.
2922  
2923  "Achatina (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa."
2924  
2925  Achatour (n.) Purveyor; acater.
2926  
2927  "Ache (v. i.) Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. ""Such an ache in my bones."""
2928  
2929  Ached (imp. & p. p.) of Ache
2930  
2931  Aching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ache
2932  
2933  "Ache (v. i.) To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed."
2934  
2935  "Achean (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian."
2936  
2937  Achene (n.) Alt. of Achenium
2938  
2939  "Achenium (n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists."
2940  
2941  Achenial (a.) Pertaining to an achene.
2942  
2943  "Acheron (n.) 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."
2944  
2945  "Acherontic (a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund."
2946  
2947  Achievable (a.) Capable of being achieved.
2948  
2949  Achievance (n.) Achievement.
2950  
2951  Achieved (imp. & p. p.) of Achieve
2952  
2953  Achieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achieve
2954  
2955  "Achieve (v. t.) 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."
2956  
2957  "Achieve (v. t.) To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win."
2958  
2959  Achieve (v. t.) To finish; to kill.
2960  
2961  "Achievement (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object."
2962  
2963  "Achievement (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat."
2964  
2965  Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
2966  
2967  Achiever (n.) One who achieves; a winner.
2968  
2969  "Achillean (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible."
2970  
2971  "Achilles' tendon (n.) 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."
2972  
2973  Achilous (a.) Without a lip.
2974  
2975  Aching (a.) That aches; continuously painful. See Ache.
2976  
2977  "Achiote (n.) Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto."
2978  
2979  Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
2980  
2981  "Achlamydeous (a.) Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla."
2982  
2983  Acholia (n.) Deficiency or want of bile.
2984  
2985  Acholous (a.) Lacking bile.
2986  
2987  Achromatic (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
2988  
2989  Achromatic (a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.
2990  
2991  Achromatically (adv.) In an achromatic manner.
2992  
2993  Achromaticity (n.) Achromatism.
2994  
2995  Achromatin (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.
2996  
2997  "Achromatism (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity."
2998  
2999  Achromatization (n.) The act or process of achromatizing.
3000  
3001  Achromatized (imp. & p. p.) of Achromatize
3002  
3003  Achromatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achromatize
3004  
3005  Achromatize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
3006  
3007  Achromatopsy (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
3008  
3009  Achronic (a.) See Acronyc.
3010  
3011  Achroodextrin (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.
3012  
3013  Achroous (a.) Colorless; achromatic.
3014  
3015  Achylous (a.) Without chyle.
3016  
3017  Achymous (a.) Without chyme.
3018  
3019  Aciculae (pl. ) of Acicula
3020  
3021  "Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal."
3022  
3023  "Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless."
3024  
3025  Aciculate (a.) Alt. of Aciculated
3026  
3027  Aciculated (a.) Furnished with aciculae.
3028  
3029  Aciculated (a.) Acicular.
3030  
3031  Aciculated (a.) Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
3032  
3033  Aciculiform (a.) Needle-shaped; acicular.
3034  
3035  Aciculite (n.) Needle ore.
3036  
3037  "Acid (a.) Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered."
3038  
3039  "Acid (a.) Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction."
3040  
3041  Acid (n.) A sour substance.
3042  
3043  "Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids."
3044  
3045  Acidic (a.) Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.
3046  
3047  Acidiferous (a.) Containing or yielding an acid.
3048  
3049  "Acidifiable (a.) Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid."
3050  
3051  Acidific (a.) Producing acidity; converting into an acid.
3052  
3053  "Acidification (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid."
3054  
3055  "Acidifier (n.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc."
3056  
3057  Acidified (imp. & p. p.) of Acidify
3058  
3059  Acidifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acidify
3060  
3061  "Acidify (v. t.) To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar."
3062  
3063  Acidify (v. t.) To sour; to imbitter.
3064  
3065  Acidimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
3066  
3067  "Acidimetry (n.) 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."
3068  
3069  "Acidity (n.) The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice."
3070  
3071  Acidly (adv.) Sourly; tartly.
3072  
3073  Acidness (n.) Acidity; sourness.
3074  
3075  Acidulated (imp. & p. p.) of Acidulate
3076  
3077  Acidulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acidulate
3078  
3079  Acidulate (v. t.) To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
3080  
3081  Acidulent (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
3082  
3083  "Acidulous (a.) Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture."
3084  
3085  Acierage (n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
3086  
3087  Aciform (a.) Shaped like a needle.
3088  
3089  "Acinaceous (a.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them."
3090  
3091  Acinaces (n.) A short sword or saber.
3092  
3093  "Acinaciform (a.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf."
3094  
3095  Acinesia (n.) Same as Akinesia.
3096  
3097  "Acinetae (n. pl.) A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria."
3098  
3099  Acinetiform (a.) Resembling the Acinetae.
3100  
3101  Aciniform (a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.
3102  
3103  Aciniform (a.) Full of small kernels like a grape.
3104  
3105  Acinose (a.) Alt. of Acinous
3106  
3107  "Acinous (a.) Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands."
3108  
3109  Acini (pl. ) of Acinus
3110  
3111  "Acinus (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc."
3112  
3113  Acinus (n.) A grapestone.
3114  
3115  "Acinus (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland."
3116  
3117  "Acipenser (n.) 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."
3118  
3119  Aciurgy (n.) Operative surgery.
3120  
3121  Acknow (v. t.) To recognize.
3122  
3123  Acknow (v. t.) To acknowledge; to confess.
3124  
3125  Acknowledged (imp. & p. p.) of Acknowledge
3126  
3127  Acknowledging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acknowledge
3128  
3129  "Acknowledge (v. t.) 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."
3130  
3131  Acknowledge (v. t.) To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
3132  
3133  "Acknowledge (v. t.) To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter."
3134  
3135  "Acknowledge (v. t.) To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed."
3136  
3137  Acknowledgedly (adv.) Confessedly.
3138  
3139  Acknowledger (n.) One who acknowledges.
3140  
3141  Acknowledgment (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
3142  
3143  "Acknowledgment (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness."
3144  
3145  Acknowledgment (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
3146  
3147  "Acknowledgment (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc."
3148  
3149  "Acknowledgment (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration."
3150  
3151  "Aclinic (a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator."
3152  
3153  Acme (n.) The top or highest point; the culmination.
3154  
3155  Acme (n.) The crisis or height of a disease.
3156  
3157  Acme (n.) Mature age; full bloom of life.
3158  
3159  "Acne (n.) A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands."
3160  
3161  Acnodal (a.) Pertaining to acnodes.
3162  
3163  "Acnode (n.) 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."
3164  
3165  Acock (adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion.
3166  
3167  "Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor."
3168  
3169  Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.
3170  
3171  Acold (a.) Cold.
3172  
3173  Acologic (a.) Pertaining to acology.
3174  
3175  Acology (n.) Materia medica; the science of remedies.
3176  
3177  Acolothist (n.) See Acolythist.
3178  
3179  "Acolyctine (n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum."
3180  
3181  "Acolyte (n.) 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."
3182  
3183  Acolyte (n.) One who attends; an assistant.
3184  
3185  Acolyth (n.) Same as Acolyte.
3186  
3187  Acolythist (n.) An acolyte.
3188  
3189  Aconddylose (a.) Alt. of Acondylous
3190  
3191  Acondylous (a.) Being without joints; jointless.
3192  
3193  Aconital (a.) Of the nature of aconite.
3194  
3195  "Aconite (n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous."
3196  
3197  "Aconite (n.) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally."
3198  
3199  Aconitia (n.) Same as Aconitine.
3200  
3201  Aconitic (a.) Of or pertaining to aconite.
3202  
3203  "Aconitine (n.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite."
3204  
3205  "Aconitum (n.) The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it."
3206  
3207  "Acontia (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated."
3208  
3209  "Acontias (n.) Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards."
3210  
3211  Acopic (a.) Relieving weariness; restorative.
3212  
3213  "Acorn (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule."
3214  
3215  "Acorn (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head."
3216  
3217  Acorn (n.) See Acorn-shell.
3218  
3219  Acorn cup () The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
3220  
3221  Acorned (a.) Furnished or loaded with acorns.
3222  
3223  Acorned (a.) Fed or filled with acorns.
3224  
3225  Acorn-shell (n.) One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.
3226  
3227  Acosmism (n.) A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
3228  
3229  "Acosmist (n.) One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God."
3230  
3231  "Acotyledon (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants."
3232  
3233  "Acotyledonous (a.) Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc."
3234  
3235  Acouchy (n.) A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).
3236  
3237  Acoumeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing.
3238  
3239  Acoumetry (n.) The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.
3240  
3241  "Acoustic (a.) Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory."
3242  
3243  Acoustic (n.) A medicine or agent to assist hearing.
3244  
3245  Acoustical (a.) Of or pertaining to acoustics.
3246  
3247  Acoustically (adv.) In relation to sound or to hearing.
3248  
3249  Acoustician (n.) One versed in acoustics.
3250  
3251  "Acoustics (n.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws."
3252  
3253  Acquaint (v. t.) Acquainted.
3254  
3255  Acquainted (imp. & p. p.) of Acquaint
3256  
3257  Acquainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquaint
3258  
3259  Acquaint (v. t.) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
3260  
3261  "Acquaint (v. t.) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act."
3262  
3263  Acquaint (v. t.) To familiarize; to accustom.
3264  
3265  Acquaintable (a.) Easy to be acquainted with; affable.
3266  
3267  "Acquaintance (n.) 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."
3268  
3269  Acquaintance (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
3270  
3271  Acquaintanceship (n.) A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.
3272  
3273  Acquaintant (n.) An acquaintance.
3274  
3275  "Acquainted (a.) Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t."
3276  
3277  Acquaintedness (n.) State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
3278  
3279  Acquest (n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.
3280  
3281  "Acquest (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance."
3282  
3283  Acquiesced (imp. & p. p.) of Acquiesce
3284  
3285  Acquiescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquiesce
3286  
3287  "Acquiesce (v. i.) 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."
3288  
3289  "Acquiesce (v. i.) To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition."
3290  
3291  "Acquiescence (n.) 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."
3292  
3293  Acquiescence (n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured.
3294  
3295  Acquiescence (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.
3296  
3297  Acquiescency (n.) The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
3298  
3299  "Acquiescent (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy."
3300  
3301  Acquiescently (adv.) In an acquiescent manner.
3302  
3303  Acquiet (v. t.) To quiet.
3304  
3305  Acquirability (n.) The quality of being acquirable; attainableness.
3306  
3307  Acquirable (a.) Capable of being acquired.
3308  
3309  Acquired (imp. & p. p.) of Acquire
3310  
3311  Acquiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquire
3312  
3313  "Acquire (v. t.) 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."
3314  
3315  "Acquirement (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment."
3316  
3317  Acquirer (n.) A person who acquires.
3318  
3319  Acquiry (n.) Acquirement.
3320  
3321  Acquisite (a.) Acquired.
3322  
3323  Acquisition (n.) The act or process of acquiring.
3324  
3325  "Acquisition (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition."
3326  
3327  Acquisitive (a.) Acquired.
3328  
3329  "Acquisitive (a.) Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition."
3330  
3331  Acquisitively (adv.) In the way of acquisition.
3332  
3333  Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
3334  
3335  Acquisitiveness (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
3336  
3337  Acquisitor (n.) One who acquires.
3338  
3339  Acquist (n.) Acquisition; gain.
3340  
3341  Acquit (p. p.) Acquitted; set free; rid of.
3342  
3343  Acquitted (imp. & p. p.) of Acquit
3344  
3345  Acquitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquit
3346  
3347  "Acquit (v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite."
3348  
3349  Acquit (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
3350  
3351  "Acquit (v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions."
3352  
3353  Acquit (v. t.) To clear one's self.
3354  
3355  "Acquit (v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly."
3356  
3357  Acquitment (n.) Acquittal.
3358  
3359  Acquittal (n.) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
3360  
3361  "Acquittal (n.) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court."
3362  
3363  Acquittance (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
3364  
3365  "Acquittance (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand."
3366  
3367  Acquittance (v. t.) To acquit.
3368  
3369  Acquitter (n.) One who acquits or releases.
3370  
3371  Acrania (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.
3372  
3373  "Acrania (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists."
3374  
3375  Acranial (a.) Wanting a skull.
3376  
3377  Acrase (v. t.) Alt. of Acraze
3378  
3379  Acraze (v. t.) To craze.
3380  
3381  Acraze (v. t.) To impair; to destroy.
3382  
3383  Acrasia (n.) Alt. of Acrasy
3384  
3385  Acrasy (n.) Excess; intemperance.
3386  
3387  "Acraspeda (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora."
3388  
3389  Acre (n.) Any field of arable or pasture land.
3390  
3391  "Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English."
3392  
3393  "Acreable (a.) Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce."
3394  
3395  "Acreage (n.) Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country."
3396  
3397  "Acred (a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men."
3398  
3399  "Acrid (a.) Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts."
3400  
3401  "Acrid (a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions."
3402  
3403  "Acrid (a.) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing."
3404  
3405  Acridity (n.) Alt. of Acridness
3406  
3407  "Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech."
3408  
3409  Acridly (adv.) In an acid manner.
3410  
3411  "Acrimonious (a.) Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall."
3412  
3413  "Acrimonious (a.) Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper."
3414  
3415  Acrimoniously (adv.) In an acrimonious manner.
3416  
3417  Acrimoniousness (n.) The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.
3418  
3419  Acrimonies (pl. ) of Acrimony
3420  
3421  "Acrimony (n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants."
3422  
3423  "Acrimony (n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners."
3424  
3425  Acrisia (n.) Alt. of Acrisy
3426  
3427  Acrisy (n.) Inability to judge.
3428  
3429  Acrisy (n.) Undecided character of a disease.
3430  
3431  "Acrita (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed."
3432  
3433  Acritan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.
3434  
3435  Acritan (n.) An individual of the Acrita.
3436  
3437  Acrite (a.) Acritan.
3438  
3439  "Acritical (a.) Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess."
3440  
3441  Acritochromacy (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy.
3442  
3443  Acritude (n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat.
3444  
3445  Acrity (n.) Sharpness; keenness.
3446  
3447  Acroamatic (a.) Alt. of Acroamatical
3448  
3449  "Acroamatical (a.) 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."
3450  
3451  Acroatic (a.) Same as Acroamatic.
3452  
3453  "Acrobat (n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats."
3454  
3455  Acrobatic (a.) Pertaining to an acrobat.
3456  
3457  Acrobatism (n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.
3458  
3459  Acrocarpous (a.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
3460  
3461  "Acrocarpous (a.) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses."
3462  
3463  Acrocephalic (a.) Characterized by a high skull.
3464  
3465  Acrocephaly (n.) Loftiness of skull.
3466  
3467  "Acroceraunian (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of ""thunder-smitten"" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia."
3468  
3469  "Acrodactylum (n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually."
3470  
3471  Acrodont (n.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
3472  
3473  Acrodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.
3474  
3475  "Acrogen (n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia."
3476  
3477  "Acrogenous (a.) Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant."
3478  
3479  "Acrolein (n.) 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."
3480  
3481  "Acrolith (n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood."
3482  
3483  Acrolithan (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic
3484  
3485  "Acrolithic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith."
3486  
3487  Acromegaly (n.) Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.
3488  
3489  Acromial (a.) Of or pertaining to the acromion.
3490  
3491  Acromion (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.
3492  
3493  Acromonogrammatic (a.) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
3494  
3495  Acronyc (a.) Alt. of Acronychal
3496  
3497  "Acronychal (a.) Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical."
3498  
3499  "Acronycally (adv.) In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa."
3500  
3501  Acronyctous (a.) Acronycal.
3502  
3503  Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
3504  
3505  "Acropetal (a.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence."
3506  
3507  Acrophony (n.) The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
3508  
3509  Acropodium (n.) The entire upper surface of the foot.
3510  
3511  "Acropolis (n.) The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens."
3512  
3513  Acropolitan (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis.
3514  
3515  Acrospire (n.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
3516  
3517  Acrospire (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.
3518  
3519  Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
3520  
3521  Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.
3522  
3523  "Across (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river."
3524  
3525  "Across (adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across."
3526  
3527  Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
3528  
3529  "Acrostic (n.) 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."
3530  
3531  Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
3532  
3533  Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostical
3534  
3535  "Acrostical (n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics."
3536  
3537  Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.
3538  
3539  Acrotarsium (n.) The instep or front of the tarsus.
3540  
3541  "Acroteleutic (n.) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response."
3542  
3543  Acroter (n.) Same as Acroterium.
3544  
3545  "Acroterial (a.) Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments."
3546  
3547  Acroteria (pl. ) of Acroterium
3548  
3549  "Acroterium (n.) 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."
3550  
3551  "Acroterium (n.) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade."
3552  
3553  Acrotic (a.) Pertaining to or affecting the surface.
3554  
3555  Acrotism (n.) Lack or defect of pulsation.
3556  
3557  Acrotomous (a.) Having a cleavage parallel with the base.
3558  
3559  "Acrylic (a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid."
3560  
3561  "Act (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed."
3562  
3563  "Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress."
3564  
3565  "Act (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done."
3566  
3567  Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
3568  
3569  "Act (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student."
3570  
3571  Act (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
3572  
3573  "Act (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing)."
3574  
3575  Acted (imp. & p. p.) of Act
3576  
3577  Acting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act
3578  
3579  Act (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
3580  
3581  Act (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do.
3582  
3583  "Act (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage."
3584  
3585  "Act (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero."
3586  
3587  Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
3588  
3589  "Act (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food."
3590  
3591  "Act (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will."
3592  
3593  "Act (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so."
3594  
3595  Act (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
3596  
3597  Actable (a.) Capable of being acted.
3598  
3599  Actinal (a.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth.
3600  
3601  "Actinaria (n. pl.) 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."
3602  
3603  Acting (a.) Operating in any way.
3604  
3605  "Acting (a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent."
3606  
3607  Actiniae (pl. ) of Actinia
3608  
3609  Actinias (pl. ) of Actinia
3610  
3611  "Actinia (n.) 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.]."
3612  
3613  Actinia (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae.
3614  
3615  "Actinic (a.) Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays."
3616  
3617  "Actiniform (a.) Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone."
3618  
3619  "Actinism (n.) The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography."
3620  
3621  "Actinium (n.) 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."
3622  
3623  Actino-chemistry (n.) Chemistry in its relations to actinism.
3624  
3625  Actinograph (n.) An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
3626  
3627  "Actinoid (a.) Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia."
3628  
3629  Actinolite (n.) A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
3630  
3631  "Actinolitic (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite."
3632  
3633  "Actinology (n.) The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays."
3634  
3635  Actinomere (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.
3636  
3637  Actinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.
3638  
3639  Actinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light.
3640  
3641  "Actinometric (a.) Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic."
3642  
3643  Actinometry (n.) The measurement of the force of solar radiation.
3644  
3645  Actinometry (n.) The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light.
3646  
3647  Actinophorous (a.) Having straight projecting spines.
3648  
3649  Actinosome (n.) The entire body of a coelenterate.
3650  
3651  Actinost (n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
3652  
3653  Actinostome (n.) The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
3654  
3655  "Actinotrocha (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles."
3656  
3657  "Actinozoa (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example."
3658  
3659  Actinozoal (a.) Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa.
3660  
3661  Actinozoon (n.) One of the Actinozoa.
3662  
3663  "Actinula (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form."
3664  
3665  "Action (n.) 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."
3666  
3667  "Action (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor."
3668  
3669  "Action (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events."
3670  
3671  "Action (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action."
3672  
3673  "Action (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun."
3674  
3675  "Action (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice."
3676  
3677  "Action (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings."
3678  
3679  Action (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
3680  
3681  "Action (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense."
3682  
3683  "Action (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim."
3684  
3685  "Action (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks."
3686  
3687  "Action (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action."
3688  
3689  Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
3690  
3691  "Actionable (a.) That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable."
3692  
3693  Actionably (adv.) In an actionable manner.
3694  
3695  Actionary (n.) Alt. of Actionist
3696  
3697  Actionist (n.) A shareholder in joint-stock company.
3698  
3699  Actionless (a.) Void of action.
3700  
3701  Activate (v. t.) To make active.
3702  
3703  "Active (a.) 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."
3704  
3705  "Active (a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal."
3706  
3707  "Active (a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano."
3708  
3709  "Active (a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal."
3710  
3711  "Active (a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes."
3712  
3713  "Active (a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman."
3714  
3715  "Active (a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn."
3716  
3717  "Active (a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy."
3718  
3719  "Active (a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice."
3720  
3721  Active (a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
3722  
3723  Active (a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
3724  
3725  "Actively (adv.) In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively."
3726  
3727  "Actively (adv.) In an active signification; as, a word used actively."
3728  
3729  Activeness (n.) The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.
3730  
3731  Activities (pl. ) of Activity
3732  
3733  "Activity (n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities."
3734  
3735  Actless (a.) Without action or spirit.
3736  
3737  "Acton (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail."
3738  
3739  "Actor (n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer."
3740  
3741  Actor (n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
3742  
3743  Actor (n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
3744  
3745  Actor (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
3746  
3747  Actress (n.) A female actor or doer.
3748  
3749  Actress (n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
3750  
3751  Actual (a.) Involving or comprising action; active.
3752  
3753  "Actual (a.) Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion."
3754  
3755  Actual (a.) In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
3756  
3757  "Actual (n.) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts."
3758  
3759  "Actualist (n.) One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist."
3760  
3761  Actualities (pl. ) of Actuality
3762  
3763  "Actuality (n.) The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature."
3764  
3765  Actualization (n.) A making actual or really existent.
3766  
3767  Actualize (v. t.) To make actual; to realize in action.
3768  
3769  Actually (adv.) Actively.
3770  
3771  Actually (adv.) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
3772  
3773  Actualness (n.) Quality of being actual; actuality.
3774  
3775  "Actuarial (a.) Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity."
3776  
3777  Actuaries (pl. ) of Actuary
3778  
3779  "Actuary (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally."
3780  
3781  "Actuary (n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances."
3782  
3783  Actuated (imp. & p. p.) of Actuate
3784  
3785  Actuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Actuate
3786  
3787  Actuate (v. t.) 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.
3788  
3789  Actuate (v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.
3790  
3791  Actuate (a.) Put in action; actuated.
3792  
3793  Actuation (n.) A bringing into action; movement.
3794  
3795  "Actuator (n.) One who actuates, or puts into action."
3796  
3797  Actuose (a.) Very active.
3798  
3799  Actuosity (n.) Abundant activity.
3800  
3801  Acture (n.) Action.
3802  
3803  Acturience (n.) Tendency or impulse to act.
3804  
3805  Acuate (v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
3806  
3807  Acuate (a.) Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
3808  
3809  Acuation (n.) Act of sharpening.
3810  
3811  Acuition (n.) The act of sharpening.
3812  
3813  "Acuity (n.) Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc."
3814  
3815  Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
3816  
3817  "Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles."
3818  
3819  Aculeate (a.) Severe or stinging; incisive.
3820  
3821  Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
3822  
3823  Aculeiform (a.) Like a prickle.
3824  
3825  Aculeolate (a.) Having small prickles or sharp points.
3826  
3827  Aculeous (a.) Aculeate.
3828  
3829  Aculei (pl. ) of Aculeus
3830  
3831  "Aculeus (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses."
3832  
3833  Aculeus (n.) A sting.
3834  
3835  Acumen (n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
3836  
3837  "Acuminate (a.) Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc."
3838  
3839  Acuminate (v. t.) To render sharp or keen.
3840  
3841  "Acuminate (v. i.) To end in, or come to, a sharp point."
3842  
3843  Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
3844  
3845  "Acuminose (a.) Terminating in a flat, narrow end."
3846  
3847  Acuminous (a.) Characterized by acumen; keen.
3848  
3849  "Acupressure (n.) 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."
3850  
3851  Acupuncturation (n.) See Acupuncture.
3852  
3853  Acupuncture (n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
3854  
3855  Acupuncture (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
3856  
3857  Acupuncture (v. t.) To treat with acupuncture.
3858  
3859  Acustumaunce (n.) See Accustomance.
3860  
3861  Acutangular (a.) Acute-angled.
3862  
3863  "Acute (a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf."
3864  
3865  "Acute (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning."
3866  
3867  "Acute (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure."
3868  
3869  "Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent."
3870  
3871  "Acute (a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease."
3872  
3873  "Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much."
3874  
3875  "Acute-angled (a.) Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle."
3876  
3877  Acutely (adv.) In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
3878  
3879  "Acuteness (n.) The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle."
3880  
3881  "Acuteness (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions."
3882  
3883  Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
3884  
3885  "Acuteness (n.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis."
3886  
3887  Acutifoliate (a.) Having sharp-pointed leaves.
3888  
3889  "Acutilobate (a.) Having acute lobes, as some leaves."
3890  
3891  "Ad- () 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."
3892  
3893  Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.
3894  
3895  Adactyl (a.) Alt. of Adactylous
3896  
3897  Adactylous (a.) Without fingers or without toes.
3898  
3899  Adactylous (a.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
3900  
3901  "Adage (n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb."
3902  
3903  Adagial (a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
3904  
3905  "Adagio (a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow."
3906  
3907  "Adagio (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn."
3908  
3909  "Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race."
3910  
3911  "Adam (n.) ""Original sin;"" human frailty."
3912  
3913  Adamant (n.) 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.
3914  
3915  Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.
3916  
3917  Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.
3918  
3919  "Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains."
3920  
3921  Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
3922  
3923  "Adambulacral (a.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish."
3924  
3925  Adamic (a.) Alt. of Adamical
3926  
3927  "Adamical (a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him."
3928  
3929  Adamite (n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.
3930  
3931  "Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies."
3932  
3933  Adam's apple () See under Adam.
3934  
3935  Adance (adv.) Dancing.
3936  
3937  Adangle (adv.) Dangling.
3938  
3939  "Adansonia (n.) 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."
3940  
3941  Adapt (a.) Fitted; suited.
3942  
3943  Adapted (imp. & p. p.) of Adapt
3944  
3945  Adapting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adapt
3946  
3947  "Adapt (v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for."
3948  
3949  Adaptability (n.) Alt. of Adaptableness
3950  
3951  Adaptableness (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.
3952  
3953  Adaptable (a.) Capable of being adapted.
3954  
3955  "Adaptation (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness."
3956  
3957  Adaptation (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.
3958  
3959  Adaptative (a.) Adaptive.
3960  
3961  Adaptedness (n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
3962  
3963  Adapter (n.) One who adapts.
3964  
3965  Adapter (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
3966  
3967  Adaption (n.) Adaptation.
3968  
3969  "Adaptive (a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting."
3970  
3971  Adaptiveness (n.) The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
3972  
3973  Adaptly (adv.) In a suitable manner.
3974  
3975  Adaptness (n.) Adaptedness.
3976  
3977  Adaptorial (a.) Adaptive.
3978  
3979  "Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March."
3980  
3981  "Adarce (n.) 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."
3982  
3983  Adatis (n.) A fine cotton cloth of India.
3984  
3985  Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
3986  
3987  Adaw (v. t.) To subdue; to daunt.
3988  
3989  Adaw (v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse.
3990  
3991  "Adays (adv.) By day, or every day; in the daytime."
3992  
3993  Ad captandum () A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
3994  
3995  Added (imp. & p. p.) of Add
3996  
3997  Adding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Add
3998  
3999  Add (v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
4000  
4001  "Add (v. t.) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column."
4002  
4003  "Add (v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further."
4004  
4005  "Add (v. i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety."
4006  
4007  "Add (v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly."
4008  
4009  Addable (a.) Addible.
4010  
4011  "Addax (n.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus)."
4012  
4013  Addeem (v. t.) To award; to adjudge.
4014  
4015  Addenda (pl. ) of Addendum
4016  
4017  Addendum (n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
4018  
4019  "Adder (n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers."
4020  
4021  Adder (n.) A serpent.
4022  
4023  Adder (n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
4024  
4025  "Adder (n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc."
4026  
4027  Adder (n.) Same as Sea Adder.
4028  
4029  Adder fly/ () A dragon fly.
4030  
4031  "Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue."
4032  
4033  Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet.
4034  
4035  Adderwort (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).
4036  
4037  Addibility (n.) The quantity of being addible; capability of addition.
4038  
4039  Addible (a.) Capable of being added.
4040  
4041  Addice (n.) See Adze.
4042  
4043  Addict (p. p.) Addicted; devoted.
4044  
4045  Addicted (imp. & p. p.) of Addict
4046  
4047  Addicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addict
4048  
4049  Addict (v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.
4050  
4051  Addict (v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
4052  
4053  Addictedness (n.) The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
4054  
4055  Addiction (n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
4056  
4057  "Addison's disease () 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."
4058  
4059  "Additament (n.) An addition, or a thing added."
4060  
4061  Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
4062  
4063  "Addition (n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building."
4064  
4065  Addition (n.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.
4066  
4067  Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
4068  
4069  "Addition (n.) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title."
4070  
4071  "Addition (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement."
4072  
4073  Additional (a.) Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
4074  
4075  Additional (n.) Something added.
4076  
4077  Additionally (adv.) By way of addition.
4078  
4079  Additionary (a.) Additional.
4080  
4081  Addititious (a.) Additive.
4082  
4083  Additive (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
4084  
4085  Additory (a.) Tending to add; making some addition.
4086  
4087  Addle (n.) Liquid filth; mire.
4088  
4089  Addle (n.) Lees; dregs.
4090  
4091  "Addle (a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled."
4092  
4093  Addled (imp. & p. p.) of Addle
4094  
4095  Addling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addle
4096  
4097  "Addle (v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain."
4098  
4099  Addle (v. t. & i.) To earn by labor.
4100  
4101  Addle (v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
4102  
4103  Addle-brain (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate
4104  
4105  Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate
4106  
4107  Addle-pate (n.) A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
4108  
4109  Addle-brained (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated
4110  
4111  Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated
4112  
4113  Addle-pated (a.) Dull-witted; stupid.
4114  
4115  Addle-patedness (n.) Stupidity.
4116  
4117  Addlings (n. pl.) Earnings.
4118  
4119  Addoom (v. t.) To adjudge.
4120  
4121  Addorsed (a.) Set or turned back to back.
4122  
4123  Addressed (imp. & p. p.) of Address
4124  
4125  Addressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Address
4126  
4127  Address (v.) To aim; to direct.
4128  
4129  Address (v.) To prepare or make ready.
4130  
4131  Address (v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
4132  
4133  Address (v.) To clothe or array; to dress.
4134  
4135  "Address (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)."
4136  
4137  "Address (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost."
4138  
4139  "Address (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter."
4140  
4141  Address (v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
4142  
4143  "Address (v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore."
4144  
4145  Address (v. i.) To prepare one's self.
4146  
4147  Address (v. i.) To direct speech.
4148  
4149  Address (v. t.) Act of preparing one's self.
4150  
4151  Address (v. t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
4152  
4153  "Address (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters."
4154  
4155  "Address (v. t.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed."
4156  
4157  "Address (v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address."
4158  
4159  Address (v. t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
4160  
4161  Address (v. t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
4162  
4163  Addressee (n.) One to whom anything is addressed.
4164  
4165  Addression (n.) The act of addressing or directing one's course.
4166  
4167  Adduced (imp. & p. p.) of Adduce
4168  
4169  Adducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adduce
4170  
4171  "Adduce (v. t.) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege."
4172  
4173  Adducent (a.) 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.
4174  
4175  Adducer (n.) One who adduces.
4176  
4177  Adducible (a.) Capable of being adduced.
4178  
4179  Adduct (v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
4180  
4181  Adduction (n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.
4182  
4183  Adduction (n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.
4184  
4185  "Adductive (a.) Adducing, or bringing towards or to something."
4186  
4187  "Adductor (n.) 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."
4188  
4189  Addulce (v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe.
4190  
4191  "Adeem (v. t.) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift."
4192  
4193  Adelantadillo (n.) A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.
4194  
4195  Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander.
4196  
4197  "Adelaster (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus."
4198  
4199  Adeling (n.) Same as Atheling.
4200  
4201  "Adelocodonic (a.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic."
4202  
4203  Adelopod (n.) An animal having feet that are not apparent.
4204  
4205  "Adelphia (n.) A ""brotherhood,"" or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc."
4206  
4207  "Adelphous (a.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous."
4208  
4209  Adempt (p. p.) Takes away.
4210  
4211  "Ademption (n.) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like."
4212  
4213  Aden- () Alt. of Adeno-
4214  
4215  "Adeno- () Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands."
4216  
4217  Adenalgia (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy
4218  
4219  Adenalgy (n.) Pain in a gland.
4220  
4221  Adeniform (a.) Shaped like a gland; adenoid.
4222  
4223  Adenitis (n.) Glandular inflammation.
4224  
4225  Adenographic (a.) Pertaining to adenography.
4226  
4227  Adenography (n.) That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
4228  
4229  Adenoid (a.) Alt. of Adenoidal
4230  
4231  Adenoidal (a.) Glandlike; glandular.
4232  
4233  Adenological (a.) Pertaining to adenology.
4234  
4235  Adenology (n.) The part of physiology that treats of the glands.
4236  
4237  Adenophorous (a.) Producing glands.
4238  
4239  Adenophyllous (a.) Having glands on the leaves.
4240  
4241  Adenose (a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.
4242  
4243  Adenotomic (a.) Pertaining to adenotomy.
4244  
4245  "Adenotomy (n.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands."
4246  
4247  Adenous (a.) Same as Adenose.
4248  
4249  Adeps (n.) Animal fat; lard.
4250  
4251  "Adept (n.) One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy."
4252  
4253  Adept (a.) Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
4254  
4255  Adeption (a.) An obtaining; attainment.
4256  
4257  Adeptist (n.) A skilled alchemist.
4258  
4259  Adeptness (n.) The quality of being adept; skill.
4260  
4261  "Adequacy (n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure."
4262  
4263  "Adequate (a.) Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition."
4264  
4265  Adequate (a.) To equalize; to make adequate.
4266  
4267  Adequate (a.) To equal.
4268  
4269  Adequately (adv.) In an adequate manner.
4270  
4271  Adequateness (n.) The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
4272  
4273  Adequation (n.) The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
4274  
4275  Adesmy (n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
4276  
4277  "Adessenarian (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation."
4278  
4279  "Adfected (v.) See Affected, 5."
4280  
4281  Adfiliated (a.) See Affiliated.
4282  
4283  Adfiliation (n.) See Affiliation.
4284  
4285  Adfluxion (n.) See Affluxion.
4286  
4287  "Adhamant (a.) Clinging, as by hooks."
4288  
4289  Adhered (imp. & p. p.) of Adhere
4290  
4291  Adhering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adhere
4292  
4293  "Adhere (v. i.) 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."
4294  
4295  "Adhere (v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church."
4296  
4297  Adhere (v. i.) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
4298  
4299  Adherence (n.) The quality or state of adhering.
4300  
4301  "Adherence (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions."
4302  
4303  Adherency (n.) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
4304  
4305  Adherency (n.) That which adheres.
4306  
4307  Adherent (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
4308  
4309  Adherent (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
4310  
4311  "Adherent (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals."
4312  
4313  "Adherent (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church."
4314  
4315  Adherent (n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
4316  
4317  Adherently (adv.) In an adherent manner.
4318  
4319  Adherer (n.) One who adheres; an adherent.
4320  
4321  "Adhesion (n.) 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."
4322  
4323  "Adhesion (n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy."
4324  
4325  Adhesion (n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
4326  
4327  Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
4328  
4329  "Adhesion (n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process."
4330  
4331  "Adhesion (n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant."
4332  
4333  "Adhesive (a.) Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances."
4334  
4335  Adhesive (a.) Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
4336  
4337  Adhesively (adv.) In an adhesive manner.
4338  
4339  Adhesiveness (n.) The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
4340  
4341  "Adhesiveness (n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse."
4342  
4343  "Adhibit (v. t.) To admit, as a person or thing; to take in."
4344  
4345  Adhibit (v. t.) To use or apply; to administer.
4346  
4347  Adhibit (v. t.) To attach; to affix.
4348  
4349  Adhibition (n.) The act of adhibiting; application; use.
4350  
4351  "Ad hominem () A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man."
4352  
4353  Adhort (v. t.) To exhort; to advise.
4354  
4355  Adhortation (n.) Advice; exhortation.
4356  
4357  Adhortatory (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.
4358  
4359  Adiabatic (a.) Not giving out or receiving heat.
4360  
4361  Adiactinic (a.) Not transmitting the actinic rays.
4362  
4363  "Adiantum (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort."
4364  
4365  Adiaphorism (n.) Religious indifference.
4366  
4367  "Adiaphorist (n.) 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."
4368  
4369  Adiaphoristic (a.) Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.
4370  
4371  Adiaphorite (n.) Same as Adiaphorist.
4372  
4373  Adiaphorous (a.) Indifferent or neutral.
4374  
4375  "Adiaphorous (a.) Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines."
4376  
4377  Adiaphory (n.) Indifference.
4378  
4379  Adiathermic (a.) Not pervious to heat.
4380  
4381  Adieu (interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
4382  
4383  Adieus (pl. ) of Adieu
4384  
4385  Adieu (n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
4386  
4387  Adight (p. p.) of Adight
4388  
4389  "Adight (v. t.) To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress."
4390  
4391  Ad infinitum () Without limit; endlessly.
4392  
4393  Ad interim () Meanwhile; temporary.
4394  
4395  Adipescent (a.) Becoming fatty.
4396  
4397  "Adipic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid."
4398  
4399  Adipocerate (v. t.) To convert into adipocere.
4400  
4401  Adipoceration (n.) The act or process of changing into adipocere.
4402  
4403  "Adipocere (n.) 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."
4404  
4405  "Adipoceriform (a.) Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor."
4406  
4407  Adipocerous (a.) Like adipocere.
4408  
4409  Adipose (a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
4410  
4411  Adiposeness (n.) Alt. of Adiposity
4412  
4413  Adiposity (n.) The state of being fat; fatness.
4414  
4415  Adipous (a.) Fatty; adipose.
4416  
4417  "Adipsous (a.) Quenching thirst, as certain fruits."
4418  
4419  Adipsy (n.) Absence of thirst.
4420  
4421  "Adit (n.) 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."
4422  
4423  Adit (n.) Admission; approach; access.
4424  
4425  Adjacence () Alt. of Adjacency
4426  
4427  "Adjacency () The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings."
4428  
4429  Adjacency () That which is adjacent.
4430  
4431  "Adjacent (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway."
4432  
4433  Adjacent (n.) That which is adjacent.
4434  
4435  Adjacently (adv.) So as to be adjacent.
4436  
4437  Adject (v. t.) To add or annex; to join.
4438  
4439  "Adjection (n.) The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added."
4440  
4441  "Adjectional (a.) Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed."
4442  
4443  Adjectitious () Added; additional.
4444  
4445  Adjectival (a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
4446  
4447  "Adjectivally (adv.) As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively."
4448  
4449  "Adjective (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence."
4450  
4451  Adjective (n.) Not standing by itself; dependent.
4452  
4453  Adjective (n.) Relating to procedure.
4454  
4455  "Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, ""a wise ruler,"" wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler."
4456  
4457  Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
4458  
4459  Adjectived (imp. & p. p.) of Adjective
4460  
4461  Adjectiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjective
4462  
4463  Adjective (v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
4464  
4465  "Adjectively (adv.) In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively."
4466  
4467  Adjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Adjoin
4468  
4469  Adjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjoin
4470  
4471  Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
4472  
4473  "Adjoin (v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin."
4474  
4475  Adjoin (v. i.) To join one's self.
4476  
4477  Adjoinant (a.) Contiguous.
4478  
4479  "Adjoining (a.) Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room."
4480  
4481  Adjoint (n.) An adjunct; a helper.
4482  
4483  Adjourned (imp. & p. p.) of Adjourn
4484  
4485  Adjourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjourn
4486  
4487  "Adjourn (v. t.) 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."
4488  
4489  "Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day."
4490  
4491  Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.
4492  
4493  "Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day."
4494  
4495  Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
4496  
4497  Adjudged (imp. & p. p.) of Adjudge
4498  
4499  Adjudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudge
4500  
4501  "Adjudge (v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor."
4502  
4503  "Adjudge (v. t.) To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term."
4504  
4505  Adjudge (v. t.) To sentence; to condemn.
4506  
4507  Adjudge (v. t.) To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
4508  
4509  Adjudger (n.) One who adjudges.
4510  
4511  Adjudgment (n.) The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.
4512  
4513  Adjudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Adjudicate
4514  
4515  Adjudicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudicate
4516  
4517  "Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree."
4518  
4519  "Adjudicate (v. i.) To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case."
4520  
4521  Adjudication (n.) The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
4522  
4523  Adjudication (n.) A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
4524  
4525  Adjudication (n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
4526  
4527  Adjudication (n.) A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
4528  
4529  Adjudicative (a.) Adjudicating.
4530  
4531  Adjudicator (n.) One who adjudicates.
4532  
4533  Adjudicature (n.) Adjudication.
4534  
4535  Adjugate (v. t.) To yoke to.
4536  
4537  "Adjument (n.) Help; support; also, a helper."
4538  
4539  Adjuvant (n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
4540  
4541  Adjuvant (n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
4542  
4543  Adjunct (a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.
4544  
4545  "Adjunct (n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it."
4546  
4547  Adjunct (n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
4548  
4549  "Adjunct (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of ""History."""
4550  
4551  "Adjunct (n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind."
4552  
4553  "Adjunct (n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a."
4554  
4555  Adjunction (n.) The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
4556  
4557  Adjunctive (a.) Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
4558  
4559  "Adjunctive (n.) One who, or that which, is joined."
4560  
4561  Adjunctively (adv.) In an adjunctive manner.
4562  
4563  Adjunctly (adv.) By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.
4564  
4565  "Adjuration (n.) The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal."
4566  
4567  Adjuration (n.) The form of oath or appeal.
4568  
4569  Adjuratory (a.) Containing an adjuration.
4570  
4571  Adjured (imp. & p. p.) of Adjure
4572  
4573  Adjuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjure
4574  
4575  "Adjure (v. t.) 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."
4576  
4577  Adjurer (n.) One who adjures.
4578  
4579  Adjusted (imp. & p. p.) of Adjust
4580  
4581  Adjusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjust
4582  
4583  "Adjust (v. t.) 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."
4584  
4585  "Adjust (v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system."
4586  
4587  "Adjust (v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted."
4588  
4589  "Adjust (v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope."
4590  
4591  Adjustable (a.) Capable of being adjusted.
4592  
4593  Adjustage (n.) Adjustment.
4594  
4595  "Adjuster (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts."
4596  
4597  Adjustive (a.) Tending to adjust.
4598  
4599  "Adjustment (n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation."
4600  
4601  "Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling."
4602  
4603  "Adjustment (n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment."
4604  
4605  Adjutage (n.) Same as Ajutage.
4606  
4607  Adjutancy (n.) The office of an adjutant.
4608  
4609  Adjutancy (n.) Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance.
4610  
4611  Adjutant (n.) A helper; an assistant.
4612  
4613  "Adjutant (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty."
4614  
4615  "Adjutant (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits."
4616  
4617  Adjutator (n.) A corruption of Agitator.
4618  
4619  Adjute (v. t.) To add.
4620  
4621  Adjutor (n.) A helper or assistant.
4622  
4623  Adjutory (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping.
4624  
4625  Adjutrix (n.) A female helper or assistant.
4626  
4627  Adjuvant (a.) Helping; helpful; assisting.
4628  
4629  Adjuvant (n.) An assistant.
4630  
4631  "Adjuvant (n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient."
4632  
4633  Adlegation (n.) 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.
4634  
4635  Ad libitum () At one's pleasure; as one wishes.
4636  
4637  Adlocution (n.) See Allocution.
4638  
4639  Admarginate (v. t.) To write in the margin.
4640  
4641  Admaxillary (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
4642  
4643  Admeasure (v. t.) To measure.
4644  
4645  "Admeasure (v. t.) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture."
4646  
4647  Admeasure (v. t.) The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.
4648  
4649  "Admeasure (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff."
4650  
4651  Admeasurer (n.) One who admeasures.
4652  
4653  Admensuration (n.) Same as Admeasurement.
4654  
4655  Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
4656  
4657  Adminicle (n.) Corroborative or explanatory proof.
4658  
4659  "Adminicular (a.) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence."
4660  
4661  Adminiculary (a.) Adminicular.
4662  
4663  Administered (imp. & p. p.) of Administer
4664  
4665  Administering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Administer
4666  
4667  "Administer (v. t.) 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."
4668  
4669  "Administer (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament."
4670  
4671  "Administer (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc."
4672  
4673  "Administer (v. t.) To tender, as an oath."
4674  
4675  "Administer (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor."
4676  
4677  Administer (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
4678  
4679  "Administer (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B."
4680  
4681  Administer (n.) Administrator.
4682  
4683  "Administerial (a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government."
4684  
4685  "Administrable (a.) Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law."
4686  
4687  Administrant (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.
4688  
4689  Administrant (n.) One who administers.
4690  
4691  Administrate (v. t.) To administer.
4692  
4693  "Administration (n.) 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."
4694  
4695  "Administration (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain."
4696  
4697  "Administration (n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament."
4698  
4699  "Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor."
4700  
4701  "Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use."
4702  
4703  "Administrative (a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy."
4704  
4705  "Administrator (n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager."
4706  
4707  "Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority."
4708  
4709  Administratorship (n.) The position or office of an administrator.
4710  
4711  "Administratrix (n.) 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."
4712  
4713  Admirability (n.) Admirableness.
4714  
4715  Admirable (a.) Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
4716  
4717  Admirable (a.) Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
4718  
4719  Admirableness (n.) The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
4720  
4721  Admirably (adv.) In an admirable manner.
4722  
4723  "Admiral (n.) 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."
4724  
4725  "Admiral (n.) The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet."
4726  
4727  Admiral (n.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.
4728  
4729  "Admiralship (n.) The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral."
4730  
4731  Admiralties (pl. ) of Admiralty
4732  
4733  Admiralty (n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
4734  
4735  Admiralty (n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
4736  
4737  Admiralty (n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
4738  
4739  Admiralty (n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
4740  
4741  "Admiralty (n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business."
4742  
4743  Admirance (n.) Admiration.
4744  
4745  Admiration (n.) Wonder; astonishment.
4746  
4747  "Admiration (n.) Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue."
4748  
4749  "Admiration (n.) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy."
4750  
4751  Admirative (a.) Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.
4752  
4753  Admired (imp. & p. p.) of Admire
4754  
4755  Admiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admire
4756  
4757  Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
4758  
4759  "Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape."
4760  
4761  Admire (v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
4762  
4763  "Admired (a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem."
4764  
4765  "Admired (a.) Wonderful; also, admirable."
4766  
4767  Admirer (n.) One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
4768  
4769  "Admiring (a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance."
4770  
4771  "Admissibility (n.) The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence."
4772  
4773  "Admissible (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible."
4774  
4775  Admission (n.) The act or practice of admitting.
4776  
4777  Admission (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
4778  
4779  Admission (n.) The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
4780  
4781  "Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry."
4782  
4783  "Admission (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence."
4784  
4785  Admission (n.) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
4786  
4787  Admissive (a.) Implying an admission; tending to admit.
4788  
4789  Admissory (a.) Pertaining to admission.
4790  
4791  Admitted (imp. & p. p.) of Admit
4792  
4793  Admitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admit
4794  
4795  "Admit (v. t.) 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."
4796  
4797  "Admit (v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse."
4798  
4799  "Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail."
4800  
4801  "Admit (v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt."
4802  
4803  "Admit (v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted."
4804  
4805  Admittable (a.) Admissible.
4806  
4807  Admittance (n.) The act of admitting.
4808  
4809  "Admittance (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception."
4810  
4811  "Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument."
4812  
4813  Admittance (n.) Admissibility.
4814  
4815  Admittance (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
4816  
4817  Admittatur (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
4818  
4819  Admitted (a.) Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
4820  
4821  Admittedly (adv.) Confessedly.
4822  
4823  Admitter (n.) One who admits.
4824  
4825  Admix (v. t.) To mingle with something else; to mix.
4826  
4827  Admixtion (n.) A mingling of different things; admixture.
4828  
4829  Admixture (n.) The act of mixing; mixture.
4830  
4831  Admixture (n.) The compound formed by mixing different substances together.
4832  
4833  Admixture (n.) That which is mixed with anything.
4834  
4835  Admonished (imp. & p. p.) of Admonish
4836  
4837  Admonishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admonish
4838  
4839  "Admonish (v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort."
4840  
4841  "Admonish (v. t.) To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause."
4842  
4843  Admonish (v. t.) To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
4844  
4845  Admonisher (n.) One who admonishes.
4846  
4847  Admonishment (n.) Admonition.
4848  
4849  Admonition (n.) Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
4850  
4851  Admonitioner (n.) Admonisher.
4852  
4853  Admonitive (a.) Admonitory.
4854  
4855  Admonitor (n.) Admonisher; monitor.
4856  
4857  Admonitorial (a.) Admonitory.
4858  
4859  "Admonitory (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance."
4860  
4861  Admonitrix (n.) A female admonitor.
4862  
4863  Admortization (n.) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
4864  
4865  Admove (v. t.) To move or conduct to or toward.
4866  
4867  Adnascent (a.) Growing to or on something else.
4868  
4869  Adnate (a.) Grown to congenitally.
4870  
4871  Adnate (a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
4872  
4873  Adnate (a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
4874  
4875  Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
4876  
4877  Adnominal (a.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.
4878  
4879  "Adnoun (n.) An adjective, or attribute."
4880  
4881  Adnubilated (a.) Clouded; obscured.
4882  
4883  "Ado (n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado."
4884  
4885  "Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles."
4886  
4887  "Adobe (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico."
4888  
4889  "Adolescence (n.) 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."
4890  
4891  Adolescency (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
4892  
4893  Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
4894  
4895  Adolescent (n.) A youth.
4896  
4897  Adonean (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.
4898  
4899  "Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty."
4900  
4901  Adonic (n.) An Adonic verse.
4902  
4903  Adonis (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
4904  
4905  Adonis (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
4906  
4907  "Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower."
4908  
4909  "Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated ""Jehovah"" are really the vowel points of the word ""Adonai."" See Jehovist."
4910  
4911  Adonize (v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.
4912  
4913  Adoor () Alt. of Adoors
4914  
4915  "Adoors () At the door; of the door; as, out adoors."
4916  
4917  Adopted (imp. & p. p.) of Adopt
4918  
4919  Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adopt
4920  
4921  "Adopt (v. t.) 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."
4922  
4923  "Adopt (v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted."
4924  
4925  Adoptable (a.) Capable of being adopted.
4926  
4927  "Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word."
4928  
4929  Adopter (n.) One who adopts.
4930  
4931  "Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters."
4932  
4933  "Adoption (n.) 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."
4934  
4935  "Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another."
4936  
4937  "Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions."
4938  
4939  Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
4940  
4941  Adoptious (a.) Adopted.
4942  
4943  "Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language."
4944  
4945  Adorability (n.) Adorableness.
4946  
4947  Adorable (a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
4948  
4949  Adorable (a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
4950  
4951  "Adorableness (n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration."
4952  
4953  Adorably (adv.) In an adorable manner.
4954  
4955  Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
4956  
4957  Adoration (n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
4958  
4959  Adoration (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
4960  
4961  Adoring (imp. & p. p. Adored (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore
4962  
4963  Adore (v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
4964  
4965  Adore (v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
4966  
4967  Adore (v. t.) To adorn.
4968  
4969  Adorement (n.) The act of adoring; adoration.
4970  
4971  Adorer (n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
4972  
4973  Adoringly (adv.) With adoration.
4974  
4975  Adorned (imp. & p. p.) of Adorn
4976  
4977  Adorning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adorn
4978  
4979  Adorn (v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
4980  
4981  Adorn (n.) Adornment.
4982  
4983  Adorn (a.) Adorned; decorated.
4984  
4985  Adornation (n.) Adornment.
4986  
4987  "Adorner (n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier."
4988  
4989  Adorningly (adv.) By adorning; decoratively.
4990  
4991  Adornment (n.) An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
4992  
4993  "Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission."
4994  
4995  "Adown (adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground."
4996  
4997  Adown (prep.) Down.
4998  
4999  Adpress (v. t.) See Appressed.
5000  
5001  Adrad (p. a.) Put in dread; afraid.
5002  
5003  Adragant (n.) Gum tragacanth.
5004  
5005  Adread (v. t. & i.) To dread.
5006  
5007  "Adreamed (p. p.) Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream."
5008  
5009  Adrenal (a.) Suprarenal.
5010  
5011  "Adrian (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows."
5012  
5013  "Adriatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice."
5014  
5015  Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
5016  
5017  "Adrip (adv. & a.) In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip."
5018  
5019  Adrogate (v. t.) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
5020  
5021  Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
5022  
5023  "Adroit (a.) 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."
5024  
5025  Adroitly (adv.) In an adroit manner.
5026  
5027  Adroitness (n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
5028  
5029  Adry (a.) In a dry or thirsty condition.
5030  
5031  Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
5032  
5033  Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
5034  
5035  Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
5036  
5037  Adscriptive (a.) Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
5038  
5039  Adsignification (n.) Additional signification.
5040  
5041  Adsignify (v. t.) To denote additionally.
5042  
5043  "Adstrict (n.) See Astrict, and Astriction."
5044  
5045  Adstrictory (a.) See Astrictory.
5046  
5047  Adstringent (a.) See Astringent.
5048  
5049  "Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone."
5050  
5051  Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
5052  
5053  "Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited."
5054  
5055  Adulator (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
5056  
5057  "Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address."
5058  
5059  Adulatress (n.) A woman who flatters with servility.
5060  
5061  "Adult (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age."
5062  
5063  "Adult (n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity."
5064  
5065  Adulter (v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute.
5066  
5067  Adulterant (n.) That which is used to adulterate anything.
5068  
5069  "Adulterant (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes."
5070  
5071  Adulterated (imp. & p. p.) of Adulterate
5072  
5073  Adulterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adulterate
5074  
5075  Adulterate (v. t.) To defile by adultery.
5076  
5077  "Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc."
5078  
5079  Adulterate (v. i.) To commit adultery.
5080  
5081  Adulterate (a.) Tainted with adultery.
5082  
5083  Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
5084  
5085  "Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture."
5086  
5087  Adulteration (n.) An adulterated state or product.
5088  
5089  Adulterator (n.) One who adulterates or corrupts.
5090  
5091  Adulterer (n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
5092  
5093  Adulterer (n.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
5094  
5095  Adulteress (n.) A woman who commits adultery.
5096  
5097  Adulteress (n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
5098  
5099  Adulterine (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
5100  
5101  Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
5102  
5103  Adulterize (v. i.) To commit adultery.
5104  
5105  "Adulterous (a.) Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit."
5106  
5107  Adulterous (a.) Characterized by adulteration; spurious.
5108  
5109  Adulterously (adv.) In an adulterous manner.
5110  
5111  Adulteries (pl. ) of Adultery
5112  
5113  "Adultery (n.) 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."
5114  
5115  Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption.
5116  
5117  "Adultery (n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment."
5118  
5119  Adultery (n.) Faithlessness in religion.
5120  
5121  Adultery (n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
5122  
5123  Adultery (n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
5124  
5125  Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
5126  
5127  Adultness (n.) The state of being adult.
5128  
5129  "Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth."
5130  
5131  Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
5132  
5133  Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.
5134  
5135  "Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth."
5136  
5137  Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
5138  
5139  Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
5140  
5141  Adumbrative (a.) Faintly representing; typical.
5142  
5143  Adunation (n.) A uniting; union.
5144  
5145  Adunc (a.) Alt. of Adunque
5146  
5147  "Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill."
5148  
5149  Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.
5150  
5151  Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.
5152  
5153  Adure (v. t.) To burn up.
5154  
5155  Adust (a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
5156  
5157  Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
5158  
5159  Adust (a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
5160  
5161  Adusted (a.) Burnt; adust.
5162  
5163  Adustible (a.) That may be burnt.
5164  
5165  "Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried."
5166  
5167  Adustion (n.) Cauterization.
5168  
5169  "Ad valorem () 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."
5170  
5171  Advanced (imp. & p. p.) of Advance
5172  
5173  Advancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance
5174  
5175  Advance (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
5176  
5177  Advance (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
5178  
5179  Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
5180  
5181  "Advance (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests."
5182  
5183  "Advance (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument."
5184  
5185  "Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten."
5186  
5187  "Advance (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him."
5188  
5189  "Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods."
5190  
5191  Advance (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
5192  
5193  "Advance (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me."
5194  
5195  "Advance (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price."
5196  
5197  "Advance (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted."
5198  
5199  Advance (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
5200  
5201  "Advance (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office."
5202  
5203  "Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods."
5204  
5205  "Advance (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural."
5206  
5207  "Advance (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand."
5208  
5209  "Advance (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication."
5210  
5211  Advanced (a.) In the van or front.
5212  
5213  "Advanced (a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers."
5214  
5215  Advanced (a.) Far on in life or time.
5216  
5217  "Advancement (v. t.) 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."
5218  
5219  "Advancement (v. t.) An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5."
5220  
5221  "Advancement (v. t.) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution."
5222  
5223  "Advancement (v. t.) Settlement on a wife, or jointure."
5224  
5225  Advancer (n.) One who advances; a promoter.
5226  
5227  Advancer (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.
5228  
5229  Advancive (a.) Tending to advance.
5230  
5231  "Advantage (n.) 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."
5232  
5233  Advantage (n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
5234  
5235  "Advantage (n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution."
5236  
5237  Advantage (n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
5238  
5239  Advantaged (imp. & p. p.) of Advantage
5240  
5241  Advantaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advantage
5242  
5243  Advantage (v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
5244  
5245  Advantageable (a.) Advantageous.
5246  
5247  "Advantageous (a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation."
5248  
5249  Advantageously (adv.) Profitably; with advantage.
5250  
5251  Advantageousness (n.) Profitableness.
5252  
5253  "Advene (v. i.) To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential."
5254  
5255  Advenient (a.) Coming from outward causes; superadded.
5256  
5257  Advent (n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
5258  
5259  Advent (n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
5260  
5261  Advent (n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.
5262  
5263  "Adventist (n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists."
5264  
5265  Adventitious (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
5266  
5267  "Adventitious (a.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots."
5268  
5269  Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
5270  
5271  "Adventitious (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental."
5272  
5273  Adventive (a.) Accidental.
5274  
5275  Adventive (a.) Adventitious.
5276  
5277  Adventive (n.) A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
5278  
5279  Adventual (a.) Relating to the season of advent.
5280  
5281  "Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss."
5282  
5283  Adventure (n.) Risk; danger; peril.
5284  
5285  "Adventure (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat."
5286  
5287  "Adventure (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life."
5288  
5289  Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
5290  
5291  Adventured (imp. & p. p.) of Adventure
5292  
5293  Adventuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adventure
5294  
5295  "Adventure (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture."
5296  
5297  Adventure (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
5298  
5299  Adventure (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
5300  
5301  Adventureful (a.) Given to adventure.
5302  
5303  "Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises."
5304  
5305  Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
5306  
5307  Adventuresome (a.) Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
5308  
5309  Adventuress (n.) A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
5310  
5311  Adventurous (n.) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
5312  
5313  "Adventurous (n.) Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song."
5314  
5315  Adventurously (adv.) In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
5316  
5317  Adventurousness (n.) The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
5318  
5319  "Adverb (n.) 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."
5320  
5321  "Adverbial (a.) Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form."
5322  
5323  Adverbiality (n.) The quality of being adverbial.
5324  
5325  Adverbialize (v. t.) To give the force or form of an adverb to.
5326  
5327  Adverbially (adv.) In the manner of an adverb.
5328  
5329  "Adversaria (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes."
5330  
5331  Adversarious (a.) Hostile.
5332  
5333  Adversaries (pl. ) of Adversary
5334  
5335  Adversary (n.) 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.
5336  
5337  Adversary (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
5338  
5339  "Adversary (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit."
5340  
5341  "Adversative (a.) Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force."
5342  
5343  Adversative (n.) An adversative word.
5344  
5345  "Adverse (a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste."
5346  
5347  Adverse (a.) Opposite.
5348  
5349  "Adverse (a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse."
5350  
5351  Adverse (v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
5352  
5353  Adversely (adv.) In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.
5354  
5355  Adverseness (n.) The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
5356  
5357  Adversifoliate (a.) Alt. of Adversifolious
5358  
5359  "Adversifolious (a.) Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem."
5360  
5361  Adversion (n.) A turning towards; attention.
5362  
5363  Adversities (pl. ) of Adversity
5364  
5365  Adversity (n.) Opposition; contrariety.
5366  
5367  Adverted (imp. & p. p.) of Advert
5368  
5369  Adverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advert
5370  
5371  "Advert (v. i.) To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said."
5372  
5373  Advertence () Alt. of Advertency
5374  
5375  "Advertency () The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness."
5376  
5377  Advertent (a.) Attentive; heedful; regardful.
5378  
5379  Advertised (imp. & p. p.) of Advertise
5380  
5381  Advertising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advertise
5382  
5383  "Advertise (v. t.) 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."
5384  
5385  "Advertise (v. t.) To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting."
5386  
5387  Advertisement (n.) The act of informing or notifying; notification.
5388  
5389  Advertisement (n.) Admonition; advice; warning.
5390  
5391  "Advertisement (n.) A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements."
5392  
5393  "Advertiser (n.) One who, or that which, advertises."
5394  
5395  "Advice (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel."
5396  
5397  Advice (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
5398  
5399  "Advice (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural."
5400  
5401  Advice (n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
5402  
5403  Advisability (n.) The quality of being advisable; advisableness.
5404  
5405  Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
5406  
5407  Advisable (a.) Ready to receive advice.
5408  
5409  Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
5410  
5411  Advisably (adv.) With advice; wisely.
5412  
5413  Advised (imp. & p. p.) of Advise
5414  
5415  Advising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advise
5416  
5417  "Advise (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn."
5418  
5419  "Advise (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk."
5420  
5421  Advise (v. t.) To consider; to deliberate.
5422  
5423  "Advise (v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends."
5424  
5425  Advisedly (adv.) Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
5426  
5427  Advisedly (adv.) With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.
5428  
5429  Advisedness (n.) Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.
5430  
5431  Advisement (n.) Counsel; advice; information.
5432  
5433  Advisement (n.) Consideration; deliberation; consultation.
5434  
5435  Adviser (n.) One who advises.
5436  
5437  Advisership (n.) The office of an adviser.
5438  
5439  "Adviso (n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat."
5440  
5441  "Advisory (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory."
5442  
5443  Advocacy (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.
5444  
5445  Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
5446  
5447  "Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth."
5448  
5449  "Advocate (n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor."
5450  
5451  Advocated (imp. & p. p.) of Advocate
5452  
5453  Advocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advocate
5454  
5455  "Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly."
5456  
5457  Advocate (v. i.) To act as advocate.
5458  
5459  Advocateship (n.) Office or duty of an advocate.
5460  
5461  Advocation (n.) The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
5462  
5463  Advocation (n.) Advowson.
5464  
5465  Advocation (n.) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
5466  
5467  Advocatory (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate.
5468  
5469  Advoke (v. t.) To summon; to call.
5470  
5471  Advolution (n.) A rolling toward something.
5472  
5473  Advoutrer (n.) An adulterer.
5474  
5475  Advoutress (n.) An adulteress.
5476  
5477  Advoutry (n.) Alt. of Advowtry
5478  
5479  Advowtry (n.) Adultery.
5480  
5481  Advowee (n.) One who has an advowson.
5482  
5483  "Advowson (n.) 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.]"
5484  
5485  Advoyer (n.) See Avoyer.
5486  
5487  Adward (n.) Award.
5488  
5489  "Adynamia (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever."
5490  
5491  "Adynamic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak."
5492  
5493  Adynamic (a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.
5494  
5495  Adynamy (n.) Adynamia.
5496  
5497  Adyta (pl. ) of Adytum
5498  
5499  "Adytum (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum."
5500  
5501  Adz (n.) Alt. of Adze
5502  
5503  "Adze (n.) 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."
5504  
5505  Adz (v. t.) To cut with an adz.
5506  
5507  Ae () Alt. of Ae
5508  
5509  "Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E."
5510  
5511  Aecidia (pl. ) of Aecidium
5512  
5513  "Aecidium (n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants."
5514  
5515  "Aedile (n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer."
5516  
5517  Aedileship (n.) The office of an aedile.
5518  
5519  "Aegean (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago."
5520  
5521  "Aegicrania (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls."
5522  
5523  Aegilops (n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
5524  
5525  Aegilops (n.) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.
5526  
5527  "Aegilops (n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass."
5528  
5529  Aegis (n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.
5530  
5531  Aegophony (n.) Same as Egophony.
5532  
5533  Aegrotat (n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill.
5534  
5535  "Aeneid (n.) The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas."
5536  
5537  Aeneous (a.) Colored like bronze.
5538  
5539  "Aeolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect."
5540  
5541  "Aeolian (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial."
5542  
5543  "Aeolic (a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode."
5544  
5545  Aeolipile (n.) Alt. of Aeolipyle
5546  
5547  "Aeolipyle (n.) 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."
5548  
5549  Aeolotropic (a.) Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.
5550  
5551  Aeolotropy (n.) Difference of quality or property in different directions.
5552  
5553  Aeolus (n.) The god of the winds.
5554  
5555  "Aeon (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon."
5556  
5557  Aeonian (a.) Eternal; everlasting.
5558  
5559  Aepyornis (n.) A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.
5560  
5561  Aerated (imp. & p. p.) of Aerate
5562  
5563  Aerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aerate
5564  
5565  "Aerate (v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air."
5566  
5567  "Aerate (v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water."
5568  
5569  Aerate (v. t.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
5570  
5571  "Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc."
5572  
5573  Aeration (n.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
5574  
5575  Aeration (n.) The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.
5576  
5577  Aerator (n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
5578  
5579  "Aerial (a.) 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."
5580  
5581  "Aerial (a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal."
5582  
5583  "Aerial (a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires."
5584  
5585  "Aerial (a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants."
5586  
5587  Aerial (a.) Light as air; ethereal.
5588  
5589  Aeriality (n.) The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality.
5590  
5591  "Aerially (adv.) Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner."
5592  
5593  "Aerie (n.) 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."
5594  
5595  "Aeriferous (a.) Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube."
5596  
5597  "Aerification (n.) The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air."
5598  
5599  "Aerification (n.) The act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aeriform state; the state of being aeriform."
5600  
5601  "Aeriform (a.) Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal."
5602  
5603  Aerify (v. t.) To infuse air into; to combine air with.
5604  
5605  Aerify (v. t.) To change into an aeriform state.
5606  
5607  Aero- () The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
5608  
5609  Aerobies (n. pl.) 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.
5610  
5611  "Aerobiotic (a.) Related to, or of the nature of, aerobies; as, aerobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen."
5612  
5613  Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.
5614  
5615  Aerodynamic (a.) Pertaining to the force of air in motion.
5616  
5617  "Aerodynamics (n.) The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects."
5618  
5619  "Aerognosy (n.) The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature."
5620  
5621  Aerographer (n.) One versed in aeography: an aerologist.
5622  
5623  Aerographic (a.) Alt. of Aerographical
5624  
5625  Aerographical (a.) Pertaining to aerography; aerological.
5626  
5627  Aerography (n.) A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology.
5628  
5629  "Aerohydrodynamic (a.) Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel."
5630  
5631  "Aerolite (n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone."
5632  
5633  Aerolith (n.) Same as A/rolite.
5634  
5635  Aerolithology (n.) The science of aerolites.
5636  
5637  "Aerolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron."
5638  
5639  Aerologic (a.) Alt. of Aerological
5640  
5641  Aerological (a.) Of or pertaining to aerology.
5642  
5643  Aerologist (n.) One versed in aerology.
5644  
5645  Aerology (n.) That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.
5646  
5647  "Aeromancy (n.) Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather."
5648  
5649  Aerometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.
5650  
5651  "Aerometric (a.) Of or pertaining to aerometry; as, aerometric investigations."
5652  
5653  "Aerometry (n.) The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics."
5654  
5655  Aeronaut (n.) An aerial navigator; a balloonist.
5656  
5657  Aeronautic (a.) Alt. of Aeronautical
5658  
5659  "Aeronautical (a.) Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing."
5660  
5661  "Aeronautics (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning."
5662  
5663  Aerophobia (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby
5664  
5665  Aerophoby (n.) Dread of a current of air.
5666  
5667  "Aerophyte (n.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte."
5668  
5669  "Aeroplane (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it."
5670  
5671  "Aeroscope (n.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air."
5672  
5673  Aeroscopy (n.) The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.
5674  
5675  "Aerose (a.) Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy."
5676  
5677  Aerosiderite (n.) A mass of meteoric iron.
5678  
5679  Aerosphere (n.) The atmosphere.
5680  
5681  Aerostat (n.) A balloon.
5682  
5683  Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.
5684  
5685  Aerostatic (a.) Alt. of Aerostatical
5686  
5687  Aerostatical (a.) Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.
5688  
5689  "Aerostatical (a.) Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage."
5690  
5691  "Aerostatics (n.) The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics."
5692  
5693  Aerostation (n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.
5694  
5695  Aerostation (n.) The science of weighing air; aerostatics.
5696  
5697  "Aeruginous (a.) Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper."
5698  
5699  "Aerugo (n.) The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris."
5700  
5701  Aery (n.) An aerie.
5702  
5703  Aery (a.) Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
5704  
5705  Aesculapian (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.
5706  
5707  "Aesculapius (n.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician."
5708  
5709  Aesculin (n.) Same as Esculin.
5710  
5711  "Esopian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aesop, or in his manner."
5712  
5713  Aesopic (a.) Alt. of Esopic
5714  
5715  Esopic (a.) Same as Aesopian.
5716  
5717  Aesthesia (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.
5718  
5719  Aesthesiometer (n.) Alt. of Esthesiometer
5720  
5721  "Esthesiometer (n.) 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."
5722  
5723  Aesthesis (n.) Sensuous perception.
5724  
5725  Aesthesodic (a.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.
5726  
5727  Aesthete (n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics.
5728  
5729  Aesthetic (a.) Alt. of Aesthetical
5730  
5731  "Aesthetical (a.) Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc."
5732  
5733  Aesthetican (n.) One versed in aesthetics.
5734  
5735  Aestheticism (n.) The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art.
5736  
5737  Aesthetics (n.) Alt. of Esthetics
5738  
5739  Esthetics (n.) 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.
5740  
5741  Aestho-physiology (n.) The science of sensation in relation to nervous action.
5742  
5743  "Aestival (a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases."
5744  
5745  Aestivate (v. i.) To spend the summer.
5746  
5747  Aestivate (v. i.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor.
5748  
5749  "Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation."
5750  
5751  "Aestivation (n.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration."
5752  
5753  Aestuary (n. & a.) See Estuary.
5754  
5755  "Aestuous (a.) Glowing; agitated, as with heat."
5756  
5757  Aetheogamous (a.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.
5758  
5759  Aether (n.) See Ether.
5760  
5761  Aethiops mineral () Same as Ethiops mineral.
5762  
5763  "Aethogen (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride."
5764  
5765  "Aethrioscope (n.) 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."
5766  
5767  Aetiological (a.) Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause.
5768  
5769  "Aetiology (n.) 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."
5770  
5771  Aetiology (n.) The assignment of a cause.
5772  
5773  Aetites (n.) See Eaglestone.
5774  
5775  "Afar (adv.) 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."
5776  
5777  Afeard (p. a.) Afraid.
5778  
5779  Afer (n.) The southwest wind.
5780  
5781  Affability (n.) The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.
5782  
5783  Affable (a.) Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.
5784  
5785  Affable (a.) Gracious; mild; benign.
5786  
5787  Affableness (n.) Affability.
5788  
5789  Affably (adv.) In an affable manner; courteously.
5790  
5791  Affabrous (a.) Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.
5792  
5793  "Affair (n.) 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."
5794  
5795  "Affair (n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue."
5796  
5797  Affair (n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
5798  
5799  Affair (n.) Action; endeavor.
5800  
5801  Affair (n.) A material object (vaguely designated).
5802  
5803  "Affamish (v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger."
5804  
5805  Affamishment (n.) Starvation.
5806  
5807  Affatuate (v. t.) To infatuate.
5808  
5809  Affear (v. t.) To frighten.
5810  
5811  Affected (imp. & p. p.) of Affect
5812  
5813  Affecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affect
5814  
5815  Affect (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
5816  
5817  "Affect (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch."
5818  
5819  Affect (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
5820  
5821  "Affect (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually."
5822  
5823  Affect (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
5824  
5825  Affect (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
5826  
5827  Affect (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
5828  
5829  "Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance."
5830  
5831  Affect (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
5832  
5833  Affect (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
5834  
5835  Affectation (n.) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
5836  
5837  Affectation (n.) A striving after.
5838  
5839  Affectation (n.) Fondness; affection.
5840  
5841  Affectationist (n.) One who exhibits affectation.
5842  
5843  Affected (p. p. & a.) Regarded with affection; beloved.
5844  
5845  Affected (p. p. & a.) Inclined; disposed; attached.
5846  
5847  Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
5848  
5849  Affected (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.
5850  
5851  "Affected (p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation."
5852  
5853  Affectedly (adv.) In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
5854  
5855  Affectedly (adv.) Lovingly; with tender care.
5856  
5857  Affectedness (n.) Affectation.
5858  
5859  "Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after."
5860  
5861  Affectibility (n.) The quality or state of being affectible.
5862  
5863  Affectible (a.) That may be affected.
5864  
5865  "Affecting (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight."
5866  
5867  Affecting (a.) Affected; given to false show.
5868  
5869  Affectingly (adv.) In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.
5870  
5871  Affection (n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
5872  
5873  "Affection (n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies."
5874  
5875  "Affection (n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency."
5876  
5877  "Affection (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children."
5878  
5879  Affection (n.) Prejudice; bias.
5880  
5881  "Affection (n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection."
5882  
5883  Affection (n.) The lively representation of any emotion.
5884  
5885  Affection (n.) Affectation.
5886  
5887  Affection (n.) Passion; violent emotion.
5888  
5889  "Affectional (a.) Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature."
5890  
5891  "Affectionate (a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother."
5892  
5893  Affectionate (a.) Kindly inclined; zealous.
5894  
5895  "Affectionate (a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language."
5896  
5897  Affectionate (a.) Strongly inclined; -- with to.
5898  
5899  Affectionated (a.) Disposed; inclined.
5900  
5901  Affectionately (adv.) With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
5902  
5903  Affectionateness (n.) The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
5904  
5905  Affectioned (a.) Disposed.
5906  
5907  Affectioned (a.) Affected; conceited.
5908  
5909  Affective (a.) Tending to affect; affecting.
5910  
5911  Affective (a.) Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional.
5912  
5913  Affectively (adv.) In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
5914  
5915  Affectuous (a.) Full of passion or emotion; earnest.
5916  
5917  Affeer (v. t.) To confirm; to assure.
5918  
5919  "Affeer (v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum."
5920  
5921  Affeerer (n.) Alt. of Affeeror
5922  
5923  Affeeror (n.) One who affeers.
5924  
5925  Affeerment (n.) The act of affeering.
5926  
5927  "Afferent (a.) 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."
5928  
5929  Affettuoso (adv.) With feeling.
5930  
5931  Affiance (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
5932  
5933  Affiance (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
5934  
5935  Affianced (imp. / p. p.) of Affiance
5936  
5937  Affiancing (p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance
5938  
5939  "Affiance (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage."
5940  
5941  Affiance (v. t.) To assure by promise.
5942  
5943  Affiancer (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
5944  
5945  Affiant (n.) One who makes an affidavit.
5946  
5947  "Affidavit (n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate."
5948  
5949  Affile (v. t.) To polish.
5950  
5951  "Affiliable (a.) Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin."
5952  
5953  Affiliated (imp. & p. p.) of Affiliate
5954  
5955  Affiliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affiliate
5956  
5957  "Affiliate (v. t.) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally."
5958  
5959  "Affiliate (v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another."
5960  
5961  Affiliate (v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
5962  
5963  "Affiliate (v. t.) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with."
5964  
5965  "Affiliate (v. i.) To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party."
5966  
5967  Affiliation (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
5968  
5969  "Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation."
5970  
5971  Affiliation (n.) Connection in the way of descent.
5972  
5973  Affinal (a.) Related by marriage; from the same source.
5974  
5975  Affine (v. t.) To refine.
5976  
5977  Affined (a.) Joined in affinity or by any tie.
5978  
5979  Affinitative (a.) Of the nature of affinity.
5980  
5981  "Affinitive (a.) Closely connected, as by affinity."
5982  
5983  Affinities (pl. ) of Affinity
5984  
5985  "Affinity (n.) 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."
5986  
5987  "Affinity (n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages."
5988  
5989  Affinity (n.) Companionship; acquaintance.
5990  
5991  "Affinity (n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction."
5992  
5993  "Affinity (n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin."
5994  
5995  "Affinity (n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction."
5996  
5997  Affirmed (imp. & p. p.) of Affirm
5998  
5999  Affirming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affirm
6000  
6001  "Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review."
6002  
6003  Affirm (v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.
6004  
6005  "Affirm (v. t.) To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4."
6006  
6007  Affirm (v. i.) To declare or assert positively.
6008  
6009  "Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation."
6010  
6011  "Affirmable (a.) Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man."
6012  
6013  Affirmance (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
6014  
6015  Affirmance (n.) A strong declaration; affirmation.
6016  
6017  Affirmant (n.) One who affirms or asserts.
6018  
6019  "Affirmant (n.) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath."
6020  
6021  "Affirmation (n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law."
6022  
6023  Affirmation (n.) The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
6024  
6025  "Affirmation (n.) That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality."
6026  
6027  "Affirmation (n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath."
6028  
6029  "Affirmative (a.) Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law."
6030  
6031  "Affirmative (a.) That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering ""yes"" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote."
6032  
6033  Affirmative (a.) Positive; dogmatic.
6034  
6035  Affirmative (a.) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
6036  
6037  "Affirmative (a.) Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted."
6038  
6039  "Affirmative (n.) That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative."
6040  
6041  "Affirmative (n.) A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc."
6042  
6043  Affirmatively (adv.) In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
6044  
6045  Affirmatory (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
6046  
6047  Affirmer (n.) One who affirms.
6048  
6049  Affixed (imp. & p. p.) of Affix
6050  
6051  Affixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affix
6052  
6053  "Affix (v. t.) 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."
6054  
6055  Affix (v. t.) To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.
6056  
6057  "Affix (v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one."
6058  
6059  "Affix (v. t.) To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground."
6060  
6061  Affixes (pl. ) of Affix
6062  
6063  Affix (n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.
6064  
6065  Affixion (n.) Affixture.
6066  
6067  "Affixture (n.) The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment."
6068  
6069  Afflation (n.) A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.
6070  
6071  Afflatus (n.) A breath or blast of wind.
6072  
6073  Afflatus (n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.
6074  
6075  Afflicted (imp. & p. p.) of Afflict
6076  
6077  Afflicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afflict
6078  
6079  Afflict (v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
6080  
6081  "Afflict (v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment."
6082  
6083  Afflict (v. t.) To make low or humble.
6084  
6085  Afflict (p. p. & a.) Afflicted.
6086  
6087  Afflictedness (n.) The state of being afflicted; affliction.
6088  
6089  Afflicter (n.) One who afflicts.
6090  
6091  "Afflicting (a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict""ing*ly, adv."
6092  
6093  "Affliction (n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief."
6094  
6095  "Affliction (n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief."
6096  
6097  Afflictionless (a.) Free from affliction.
6098  
6099  Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.
6100  
6101  Afflictively (adv.) In an afflictive manner.
6102  
6103  Affluence (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
6104  
6105  "Affluence (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth."
6106  
6107  Affluency (n.) Affluence.
6108  
6109  Affluent (a.) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
6110  
6111  "Affluent (a.) Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches."
6112  
6113  Affluent (n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
6114  
6115  Affluently (adv.) Abundantly; copiously.
6116  
6117  Affluentness (n.) Great plenty.
6118  
6119  "Afflux (n.) A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head."
6120  
6121  Affluxion (n.) The act of flowing towards; afflux.
6122  
6123  Affodill (n.) Asphodel.
6124  
6125  Afforce (v. t.) To reenforce; to strengthen.
6126  
6127  Afforcement (n.) A fortress; a fortification for defense.
6128  
6129  Afforcement (n.) A reenforcement; a strengthening.
6130  
6131  Afforciament (n.) See Afforcement.
6132  
6133  Afforded (imp. & p. p.) of Afford
6134  
6135  Affording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afford
6136  
6137  "Afford (v. t.) 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."
6138  
6139  "Afford (v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age."
6140  
6141  "Afford (v. t.) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity."
6142  
6143  "Afford (v. t.) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough."
6144  
6145  Affordable (a.) That may be afforded.
6146  
6147  Affordment (n.) Anything given as a help; bestowal.
6148  
6149  "Afforest (v. t.) To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country."
6150  
6151  Afforestation (n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland.
6152  
6153  Afformative (n.) An affix.
6154  
6155  Affranchise (v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise.
6156  
6157  Affranchisement (n.) The act of making free; enfranchisement.
6158  
6159  "Affrap (v. t. & i.) To strike, or strike down."
6160  
6161  Affrayed (p. p.) of Affray
6162  
6163  Affray (v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
6164  
6165  Affray (v. t.) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
6166  
6167  Affray (v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
6168  
6169  Affray (v. t.) Alarm; terror; fright.
6170  
6171  Affray (v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
6172  
6173  "Affray (v. t.) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others."
6174  
6175  Affrayer (n.) One engaged in an affray.
6176  
6177  Affrayment (n.) Affray.
6178  
6179  "Affreight (v. t.) To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight."
6180  
6181  Affreighter (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
6182  
6183  "Affreightment (n.) The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo."
6184  
6185  Affret (n.) A furious onset or attack.
6186  
6187  Affriction (n.) The act of rubbing against.
6188  
6189  Affriended (p. p.) Made friends; reconciled.
6190  
6191  Affrighted (imp. & p. p.) of Affright
6192  
6193  Affrighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affright
6194  
6195  Affright (v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
6196  
6197  Affright (p. a.) Affrighted.
6198  
6199  "Affright (n.) Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror."
6200  
6201  "Affright (n.) The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread."
6202  
6203  Affrightedly (adv.) With fright.
6204  
6205  Affrighten (v. t.) To frighten.
6206  
6207  Affrighter (n.) One who frightens.
6208  
6209  Affrightful (a.) Terrifying; frightful.
6210  
6211  Affrightment (n.) Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.
6212  
6213  Affronted (imp. & p. p.) of Affront
6214  
6215  Affronting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affront
6216  
6217  Affront (v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
6218  
6219  "Affront (v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter."
6220  
6221  Affront (v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
6222  
6223  Affront (n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.
6224  
6225  Affront (n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
6226  
6227  Affront (n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
6228  
6229  "Affronte (a.) Face to face, or front to front; facing."
6230  
6231  Affrontedly (adv.) Shamelessly.
6232  
6233  Affrontee (n.) One who receives an affront.
6234  
6235  "Affronter (n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face."
6236  
6237  Affrontingly (adv.) In an affronting manner.
6238  
6239  Affrontive (a.) Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.
6240  
6241  Affrontiveness (n.) The quality that gives an affront or offense.
6242  
6243  Affused (imp. & p. p.) of Affuse
6244  
6245  Affusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affuse
6246  
6247  Affuse (v. t.) To pour out or upon.
6248  
6249  "Affusion (n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism."
6250  
6251  "Affusion (n.) The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease."
6252  
6253  Affied (imp. & p. p.) of Affy
6254  
6255  Affying (p. pr.) of Affy
6256  
6257  "Affy (v. t.) To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust."
6258  
6259  Affy (v. t.) To betroth or espouse; to affiance.
6260  
6261  Affy (v. t.) To bind in faith.
6262  
6263  Affy (v. i.) To trust or confide.
6264  
6265  Afghan (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.
6266  
6267  Afghan (n.) A native of Afghanistan.
6268  
6269  Afghan (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.
6270  
6271  "Afield (adv.) To, in, or on the field."
6272  
6273  Afield (adv.) Out of the way; astray.
6274  
6275  Afire (adv. & a.) On fire.
6276  
6277  Aflame (adv. & a.) Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
6278  
6279  Aflat (adv.) Level with the ground; flat.
6280  
6281  Aflaunt (adv. & a.) In a flaunting state or position.
6282  
6283  Aflicker (adv. & a.) In a flickering state.
6284  
6285  Afloat (adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
6286  
6287  "Afloat (adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat."
6288  
6289  "Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat."
6290  
6291  Aflow (adv. & a.) Flowing.
6292  
6293  Aflush (adv. & a.) In a flushed or blushing state.
6294  
6295  Aflush (adv. & a.) On a level.
6296  
6297  Aflutter (adv. & a.) In a flutter; agitated.
6298  
6299  "Afoam (adv. & a.) In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam."
6300  
6301  Afoot (adv.) On foot.
6302  
6303  Afoot (adv.) Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
6304  
6305  Afore (adv.) Before.
6306  
6307  Afore (adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.
6308  
6309  Afore (prep.) Before (in all its senses).
6310  
6311  "Afore (prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass."
6312  
6313  Aforecited (a.) Named or quoted before.
6314  
6315  Aforegoing (a.) Going before; foregoing.
6316  
6317  Aforehand (adv.) Beforehand; in anticipation.
6318  
6319  Aforehand (a.) Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand.
6320  
6321  Aforementioned (a.) Previously mentioned; before-mentioned.
6322  
6323  Aforenamed (a.) Named before.
6324  
6325  "Aforesaid (a.) Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified."
6326  
6327  "Aforethought (a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder."
6328  
6329  Aforethought (n.) Premeditation.
6330  
6331  Aforetime (adv.) In time past; formerly.
6332  
6333  A fortiori () With stronger reason.
6334  
6335  Afoul (adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.
6336  
6337  Afraid (p. a.) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
6338  
6339  Afreet (n.) Same as Afrit.
6340  
6341  Afresh (adv.) Anew; again; once more; newly.
6342  
6343  Afric (a.) African.
6344  
6345  Afric (n.) Africa.
6346  
6347  African (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.
6348  
6349  African (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
6350  
6351  "Africander (n.) 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."
6352  
6353  "Africanism (n.) A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans."
6354  
6355  Africanize (v. t.) To place under the domination of Africans or negroes.
6356  
6357  Afrit (n.) Alt. of Afreet
6358  
6359  Afrite (n.) Alt. of Afreet
6360  
6361  "Afreet (n.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant."
6362  
6363  Afront (adv.) In front; face to face.
6364  
6365  Afront (prep.) In front of.
6366  
6367  Aft (adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
6368  
6369  "After (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life."
6370  
6371  After (a.) Hinder; nearer the rear.
6372  
6373  "After (a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway."
6374  
6375  "After (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another."
6376  
6377  After (prep.) Below in rank; next to in order.
6378  
6379  "After (prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause."
6380  
6381  "After (prep.) Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful."
6382  
6383  "After (prep.) Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course."
6384  
6385  "After (prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of."
6386  
6387  "After (prep.) Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness."
6388  
6389  "After (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father."
6390  
6391  "After (prep.) According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind."
6392  
6393  After (prep.) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
6394  
6395  "After (adv.) Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after."
6396  
6397  "Afterbirth (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery."
6398  
6399  "Aftercast (n.) A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late."
6400  
6401  Afterclap (n.) An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
6402  
6403  Aftercrop (n.) A second crop or harvest in the same year.
6404  
6405  "After damp () An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid."
6406  
6407  After-dinner (n.) The time just after dinner.
6408  
6409  "After-dinner (a.) Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap."
6410  
6411  After-eatage (n.) Aftergrass.
6412  
6413  Aftereye (v. t.) To look after.
6414  
6415  "Aftergame (n.) A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient."
6416  
6417  After-glow (n.) A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
6418  
6419  Aftergrass (n.) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
6420  
6421  "Aftergrowth (n.) A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development."
6422  
6423  "Afterguard (n.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails."
6424  
6425  "After-image (n.) 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."
6426  
6427  Afterings (n. pl.) The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
6428  
6429  Aftermath (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
6430  
6431  "After-mentioned (a.) Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing)."
6432  
6433  Aftermost (a. superl.) Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
6434  
6435  Aftermost (a. superl.) Nearest the stern; most aft.
6436  
6437  "Afternoon (n.) The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening."
6438  
6439  "After-note (n.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note."
6440  
6441  "Afterpains (n. pl.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth."
6442  
6443  "Afterpiece (n.) A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment."
6444  
6445  Afterpiece (n.) The heel of a rudder.
6446  
6447  "After-sails (n.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast."
6448  
6449  Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.
6450  
6451  Aftertaste (n.) A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
6452  
6453  Afterthought (n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
6454  
6455  Afterwards (adv.) Alt. of Afterward
6456  
6457  Afterward (adv.) At a later or succeeding time.
6458  
6459  "Afterwise (a.) Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late."
6460  
6461  After-wit (n.) Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
6462  
6463  After-witted (a.) Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
6464  
6465  Aftmost (a.) Nearest the stern.
6466  
6467  Aftward (adv.) Toward the stern.
6468  
6469  Aga (n.) Alt. of Agha
6470  
6471  "Agha (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect."
6472  
6473  "Again (adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again."
6474  
6475  Again (adv.) Another time; once more; anew.
6476  
6477  "Again (adv.) Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again."
6478  
6479  Again (adv.) In any other place.
6480  
6481  Again (adv.) On the other hand.
6482  
6483  Again (adv.) Moreover; besides; further.
6484  
6485  Again (prep.) Alt. of Agains
6486  
6487  "Agains (prep.) Against; also, towards (in order to meet)."
6488  
6489  Againbuy (v. t.) To redeem.
6490  
6491  Againsay (v. t.) To gainsay.
6492  
6493  "Against (prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over."
6494  
6495  "Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof."
6496  
6497  "Against (prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time."
6498  
6499  Against (prep.) By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when.
6500  
6501  Againstand (v. t.) To withstand.
6502  
6503  Againward (adv.) Back again.
6504  
6505  Agalactia (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy
6506  
6507  Agalaxy (n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
6508  
6509  Agalactous (a.) Lacking milk to suckle with.
6510  
6511  Agal-agal (n.) Same as Agar-agar.
6512  
6513  Agalloch (n.) Alt. of Agallochum
6514  
6515  "Agallochum (n.) 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."
6516  
6517  "Agalmatolite (n.) 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."
6518  
6519  "Agama (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards."
6520  
6521  Agamis (pl. ) of Agami
6522  
6523  "Agami (n.) 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."
6524  
6525  "Agamic (a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs."
6526  
6527  "Agamic (a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous."
6528  
6529  Agamically (adv.) In an agamic manner.
6530  
6531  "Agamist (n.) An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage."
6532  
6533  Agamogenesis (n.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
6534  
6535  Agamogenetic (n.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union.
6536  
6537  Agamous (a.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.
6538  
6539  Agamous (a.) cryptogamous.
6540  
6541  Aganglionic (a.) Without ganglia.
6542  
6543  "Agape (adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention."
6544  
6545  Agapae (pl. ) of Agape
6546  
6547  "Agape (n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion."
6548  
6549  Agar-agar (n.) A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).
6550  
6551  "Agaric (n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example."
6552  
6553  "Agaric (n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood."
6554  
6555  Agasp (adv. & a.) In a state of gasping.
6556  
6557  Agast (v. t.) Alt. of Aghast
6558  
6559  Aghast (v. t.) To affright; to terrify.
6560  
6561  Agast (p. p. & a.) See Aghast.
6562  
6563  "Agastric (a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm."
6564  
6565  "Agate (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate."
6566  
6567  "Agate (n.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds."
6568  
6569  "Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby."
6570  
6571  Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
6572  
6573  "Agate (n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing."
6574  
6575  Agatiferous (a.) Containing or producing agates.
6576  
6577  "Agatine (a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate."
6578  
6579  Agatize (v. t.) To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
6580  
6581  "Agaty (a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate."
6582  
6583  "Agave (n.) 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."
6584  
6585  Agazed (p. p.) Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
6586  
6587  "Age (n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime."
6588  
6589  "Age (n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?"
6590  
6591  Age (n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
6592  
6593  "Age (n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc."
6594  
6595  "Age (n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age."
6596  
6597  "Age (n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion."
6598  
6599  "Age (n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles."
6600  
6601  Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
6602  
6603  Age (n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
6604  
6605  "Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation."
6606  
6607  Age (n.) A long time.
6608  
6609  Aged (imp. & p. p.) of Age
6610  
6611  Aging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
6612  
6613  "Age (v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged."
6614  
6615  "Age (v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us."
6616  
6617  "Aged (a.) Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak."
6618  
6619  Aged (a.) Belonging to old age.
6620  
6621  "Aged (a.) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years."
6622  
6623  Agedly (adv.) In the manner of an aged person.
6624  
6625  Agedness (n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.
6626  
6627  "Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth."
6628  
6629  Agen (adv. & prep.) See Again.
6630  
6631  Agencies (pl. ) of Agency
6632  
6633  Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
6634  
6635  "Agency (n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another."
6636  
6637  Agency (n.) The place of business of am agent.
6638  
6639  Agend (n.) See Agendum.
6640  
6641  Agenda (pl. ) of Agendum
6642  
6643  "Agendum (n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book."
6644  
6645  "Agendum (n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]"
6646  
6647  Agenesic (a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.
6648  
6649  "Agenesis (n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization."
6650  
6651  Agennesis (n.) Impotence; sterility.
6652  
6653  "Agent (a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action."
6654  
6655  "Agent (n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor."
6656  
6657  "Agent (n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor."
6658  
6659  "Agent (n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent."
6660  
6661  Agential (a.) Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
6662  
6663  Agentship (n.) Agency.
6664  
6665  "Ageratum (n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters."
6666  
6667  Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.
6668  
6669  Agger (n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
6670  
6671  Aggerate (v. t.) To heap up.
6672  
6673  "Aggeration (n.) A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand."
6674  
6675  Aggerose (a.) In heaps; full of heaps.
6676  
6677  Aggest (v. t.) To heap up.
6678  
6679  Agglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Agglomerate
6680  
6681  Agglomerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglomerate
6682  
6683  "Agglomerate (v. t.) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass."
6684  
6685  Agglomerate (v. i.) To collect in a mass.
6686  
6687  Agglomerate (a.) Alt. of Agglomerated
6688  
6689  "Agglomerated (a.) Collected into a ball, heap, or mass."
6690  
6691  Agglomerated (a.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
6692  
6693  Agglomerate (n.) A collection or mass.
6694  
6695  Agglomerate (n.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.
6696  
6697  Agglomeration (n.) The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
6698  
6699  Agglomeration (n.) State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
6700  
6701  "Agglomerative (a.) Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections."
6702  
6703  "Agglutinant (a.) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion."
6704  
6705  Agglutinant (n.) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
6706  
6707  Agglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Agglutinate
6708  
6709  Agglutinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglutinate
6710  
6711  "Agglutinate (v. t.) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances."
6712  
6713  Agglutinate (a.) United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
6714  
6715  "Agglutinate (a.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2."
6716  
6717  Agglutination (n.) The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
6718  
6719  "Agglutination (n.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2."
6720  
6721  "Agglutinative (a.) Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive."
6722  
6723  "Agglutinative (a.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound."
6724  
6725  Aggrace (v. t.) To favor; to grace.
6726  
6727  Aggrace (n.) Grace; favor.
6728  
6729  Aggrandizable (a.) Capable of being aggrandized.
6730  
6731  Aggrandization (n.) Aggrandizement.
6732  
6733  Aggrandized (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrandize
6734  
6735  Aggrandizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrandize
6736  
6737  "Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress."
6738  
6739  "Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc."
6740  
6741  Aggrandize (v. t.) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
6742  
6743  Aggrandize (v. i.) To increase or become great.
6744  
6745  "Aggrandizement (n.) 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."
6746  
6747  "Aggrandizer (n.) One who aggrandizes, or makes great."
6748  
6749  Aggrate (a.) To please.
6750  
6751  Aggravated (imp. & p. p.) of Aggravate
6752  
6753  Aggravating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggravate
6754  
6755  Aggravate (v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
6756  
6757  "Aggravate (v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify."
6758  
6759  "Aggravate (v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances."
6760  
6761  Aggravate (v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
6762  
6763  "Aggravating (a.) Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances."
6764  
6765  Aggravating (a.) Exasperating; provoking; irritating.
6766  
6767  Aggravatingly (adv.) In an aggravating manner.
6768  
6769  "Aggravation (n.) 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."
6770  
6771  Aggravation (n.) Exaggerated representation.
6772  
6773  Aggravation (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
6774  
6775  Aggravation (n.) Provocation; irritation.
6776  
6777  Aggravative (a.) Tending to aggravate.
6778  
6779  Aggravative (n.) That which aggravates.
6780  
6781  Aggregated (imp. & p. p.) of Aggregate
6782  
6783  Aggregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggregate
6784  
6785  "Aggregate (v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. ""The aggregated soil."""
6786  
6787  "Aggregate (v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association."
6788  
6789  "Aggregate (v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels."
6790  
6791  Aggregate (a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
6792  
6793  "Aggregate (a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands."
6794  
6795  "Aggregate (a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry."
6796  
6797  Aggregate (a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
6798  
6799  Aggregate (a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
6800  
6801  "Aggregate (n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc."
6802  
6803  "Aggregate (n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles."
6804  
6805  Aggregately (adv.) Collectively; in mass.
6806  
6807  "Aggregation (n.) The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate."
6808  
6809  Aggregative (a.) Taken together; collective.
6810  
6811  Aggregative (a.) Gregarious; social.
6812  
6813  Aggregator (n.) One who aggregates.
6814  
6815  Aggrege (v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate.
6816  
6817  Aggressed (imp. & p. p.) of Aggress
6818  
6819  Aggressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggress
6820  
6821  Aggress (v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
6822  
6823  Aggress (v. t.) To set upon; to attack.
6824  
6825  Aggress (n.) Aggression.
6826  
6827  "Aggression (n.) 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."""
6828  
6829  "Aggressive (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation."
6830  
6831  Aggressor (n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
6832  
6833  Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
6834  
6835  Aggrieved (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrieve
6836  
6837  Aggrieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrieve
6838  
6839  "Aggrieve (v. t.) 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."
6840  
6841  Aggrieve (v. i.) To grieve; to lament.
6842  
6843  Aggrouped (imp. & p. p.) of Aggroup
6844  
6845  Aggrouping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggroup
6846  
6847  Aggroup (v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group.
6848  
6849  Aggroupment (n.) Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
6850  
6851  Aggry (a.) Alt. of Aggri
6852  
6853  "Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa."
6854  
6855  "Aghast (v. t.) See Agast, v. t."
6856  
6857  Aghast (a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
6858  
6859  Agible (a.) Possible to be done; practicable.
6860  
6861  "Agile (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue."
6862  
6863  Agilely (adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly.
6864  
6865  Agileness (n.) Agility; nimbleness.
6866  
6867  "Agility (n.) 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."
6868  
6869  Agility (n.) Activity; powerful agency.
6870  
6871  Agios (pl. ) of Agio
6872  
6873  Agio (n.) 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.
6874  
6875  "Agiotage (n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds."
6876  
6877  "Agist (v. t.) 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."
6878  
6879  Agistator (n.) See Agister.
6880  
6881  Agister (n.) Alt. of Agistor
6882  
6883  "Agistor (n.) 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."
6884  
6885  "Agistor (n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer."
6886  
6887  "Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests."
6888  
6889  Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
6890  
6891  Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
6892  
6893  "Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes."
6894  
6895  "Agitable (a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved."
6896  
6897  Agitated (imp. & p. p.) of Agitate
6898  
6899  Agitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agitate
6900  
6901  "Agitate (v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel."
6902  
6903  Agitate (v. t.) To move or actuate.
6904  
6905  "Agitate (v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated."
6906  
6907  "Agitate (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated."
6908  
6909  "Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs."
6910  
6911  Agitatedly (adv.) In an agitated manner.
6912  
6913  "Agitation (n.) 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."
6914  
6915  "Agitation (n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation."
6916  
6917  "Agitation (n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation."
6918  
6919  "Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate."
6920  
6921  Agitative (a.) Tending to agitate.
6922  
6923  "Agitato (a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner."
6924  
6925  "Agitator (n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators."
6926  
6927  "Agitator (n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators."
6928  
6929  Agitator (n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.
6930  
6931  "Agleam (adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam."
6932  
6933  Aglet (n.) Alt. of Aiglet
6934  
6935  "Aiglet (n.) 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."
6936  
6937  Aiglet (n.) A round white staylace.
6938  
6939  Agley (adv.) Aside; askew.
6940  
6941  Aglimmer (adv. & a.) In a glimmering state.
6942  
6943  Aglitter (adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter.
6944  
6945  Aglossal (a.) Without tongue; tongueless.
6946  
6947  "Aglow (adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow."
6948  
6949  Aglutition (n.) Inability to swallow.
6950  
6951  "Agminal (a.) Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train."
6952  
6953  Agminate (a.) Alt. of Agminated
6954  
6955  "Agminated (a.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine."
6956  
6957  Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
6958  
6959  "Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail."
6960  
6961  "Agnate (a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor."
6962  
6963  Agnate (a.) Allied; akin.
6964  
6965  Agnate (n.) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
6966  
6967  Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
6968  
6969  "Agnation (n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation."
6970  
6971  Agnition (n.) Acknowledgment.
6972  
6973  Agnize (v. t.) To recognize; to acknowledge.
6974  
6975  Agnoiology (n.) The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.
6976  
6977  "Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus."
6978  
6979  "Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just."
6980  
6981  Agnominate (v. t.) To name.
6982  
6983  Agnomination (n.) A surname.
6984  
6985  "Agnomination (n.) Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination."
6986  
6987  Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
6988  
6989  "Agnostic (n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc."
6990  
6991  "Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies."
6992  
6993  "Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism."
6994  
6995  Agnuses (pl. ) of Agnus
6996  
6997  Agni (pl. ) of Agnus
6998  
6999  Agnus (n.) Agnus Dei.
7000  
7001  Agnus castus () A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree.
7002  
7003  Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
7004  
7005  Agnus Dei () A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.
7006  
7007  "Agnus Dei () A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words ""Agnus Dei."""
7008  
7009  "Ago (a. & adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago."
7010  
7011  Agog (a. & adv.) In eager desire; eager; astir.
7012  
7013  "Agoing (adv.) In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing."
7014  
7015  Agones (pl. ) of Agon
7016  
7017  Agon (n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.
7018  
7019  Agone (a. & adv.) Ago.
7020  
7021  Agone (n.) Agonic line.
7022  
7023  Agonic (a.) Not forming an angle.
7024  
7025  Agonism (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest.
7026  
7027  Agonist (n.) One who contends for the prize in public games.
7028  
7029  Agonistic (a.) Alt. of Agonistical
7030  
7031  "Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural."
7032  
7033  Agonistically (adv.) In an agonistic manner.
7034  
7035  "Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games."
7036  
7037  Agonized (imp. & p. p.) of Agonize
7038  
7039  Agonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agonize
7040  
7041  Agonize (v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
7042  
7043  Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
7044  
7045  Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
7046  
7047  Agonizingly (adv.) With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
7048  
7049  Agonothete (n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
7050  
7051  Agonothetic (a.) Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
7052  
7053  Agonies (pl. ) of Agony
7054  
7055  Agony (n.) Violent contest or striving.
7056  
7057  "Agony (n.) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane."
7058  
7059  Agony (n.) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
7060  
7061  Agony (n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
7062  
7063  Agood (adv.) In earnest; heartily.
7064  
7065  "Agora (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city."
7066  
7067  "Agouara (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America."
7068  
7069  "Agouta (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti."
7070  
7071  Agouti (n.) Alt. of Agouty
7072  
7073  "Agouty (n.) 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."
7074  
7075  Agrace (n. & v.) See Aggrace.
7076  
7077  Agraffe (n.) A hook or clasp.
7078  
7079  "Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration."
7080  
7081  Agrammatist (n.) A illiterate person.
7082  
7083  Agraphia (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
7084  
7085  Agraphic (a.) Characterized by agraphia.
7086  
7087  "Agrappes (n. pl.) Hooks and eyes for armor, etc."
7088  
7089  "Agrarian (a.) 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."
7090  
7091  Agrarian (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
7092  
7093  Agrarian (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
7094  
7095  Agrarian (n.) An agrarian law.
7096  
7097  Agrarianism (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
7098  
7099  "Agrarianize (v. t.) To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism."
7100  
7101  Agre (adv.) Alt. of Agree
7102  
7103  Agree (adv.) In good part; kindly.
7104  
7105  Agreed (imp. & p. p.) of Agree
7106  
7107  Agreeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agree
7108  
7109  "Agree (v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law."
7110  
7111  "Agree (v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion."
7112  
7113  Agree (v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
7114  
7115  "Agree (v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly."
7116  
7117  "Agree (v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution."
7118  
7119  "Agree (v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person."
7120  
7121  Agree (v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.
7122  
7123  "Agree (v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences."
7124  
7125  Agreeability (n.) Easiness of disposition.
7126  
7127  "Agreeability (n.) The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness."
7128  
7129  "Agreeable (a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste."
7130  
7131  Agreeable (a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
7132  
7133  "Agreeable (a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with."
7134  
7135  "Agreeable (a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report."
7136  
7137  Agreeableness (n.) The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
7138  
7139  Agreeableness (n.) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
7140  
7141  Agreeableness (n.) Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between.
7142  
7143  Agreeably (adv.) In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
7144  
7145  "Agreeably (adv.) In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4."
7146  
7147  Agreeably (adv.) Alike; similarly.
7148  
7149  Agreeingly (adv.) In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.
7150  
7151  "Agreement (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council."
7152  
7153  "Agreement (n.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person."
7154  
7155  "Agreement (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract."
7156  
7157  "Agreement (n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises."
7158  
7159  Agreer (n.) One who agrees.
7160  
7161  "Agrestic (a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth."
7162  
7163  Agrestical (a.) Agrestic.
7164  
7165  Agricolation (n.) Agriculture.
7166  
7167  Agricolist (n.) A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.
7168  
7169  Agricultor (n.) An agriculturist; a farmer.
7170  
7171  "Agricultural (a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc."
7172  
7173  Agriculturalist (n.) An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)
7174  
7175  "Agriculture (n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming."
7176  
7177  Agriculturism (n.) Agriculture.
7178  
7179  Agriculturist (n.) One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
7180  
7181  Agrief (adv.) In grief; amiss.
7182  
7183  Agrimony (n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.
7184  
7185  "Agrimony (n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens)."
7186  
7187  Agrin (adv. & a.) In the act of grinning.
7188  
7189  Agriologist (n.) One versed or engaged in agriology.
7190  
7191  Agriology (n.) Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
7192  
7193  Agrise (v. i.) To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
7194  
7195  Agrise (v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
7196  
7197  Agrise (v. t.) To terrify; to affright.
7198  
7199  "Agrom (n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves."
7200  
7201  Agronomic () Alt. of Agronomical
7202  
7203  "Agronomical () Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms."
7204  
7205  Agronomics (n.) The science of the distribution and management of land.
7206  
7207  Agronomist (n.) One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
7208  
7209  Agronomy (n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
7210  
7211  Agrope (adv. & a.) In the act of groping.
7212  
7213  "Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses."
7214  
7215  Agrostographic (a.) Alt. of Agrostographical
7216  
7217  Agrostographical (a.) Pertaining to agrostography.
7218  
7219  Agrostography (n.) A description of the grasses.
7220  
7221  Agrostologic (a.) Alt. of Agrostological
7222  
7223  Agrostological (a.) Pertaining to agrostology.
7224  
7225  Agrostologist (n.) One skilled in agrostology.
7226  
7227  Agrostology (n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses.
7228  
7229  Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
7230  
7231  Agroupment (n.) See Aggroupment.
7232  
7233  "Agrypnotic (n.) Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee."
7234  
7235  Aguardiente (n.) A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
7236  
7237  "Aguardiente (n.) A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque."
7238  
7239  Ague (n.) An acute fever.
7240  
7241  "Ague (n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits."
7242  
7243  "Ague (n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague."
7244  
7245  "Ague (n.) A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold."
7246  
7247  Agued (imp. & p. p.) of Ague
7248  
7249  "Ague (v. t.) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit."
7250  
7251  Aguilt (v. t.) To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.
7252  
7253  Aguise (n.) Dress.
7254  
7255  Aguise (v. t.) To dress; to attire; to adorn.
7256  
7257  Aguish (a.) Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.
7258  
7259  "Aguish (a.) Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England."
7260  
7261  Agush (adv. & a.) In a gushing state.
7262  
7263  Agynous (a.) Without female organs; male.
7264  
7265  "Ah (interj.) An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance."
7266  
7267  "Aha (interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise."
7268  
7269  Aha (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.
7270  
7271  Ahead (adv.) In or to the front; in advance; onward.
7272  
7273  Ahead (adv.) Headlong; without restraint.
7274  
7275  Aheap (adv.) In a heap; huddled together.
7276  
7277  Aheight (adv.) Aloft; on high.
7278  
7279  Ahem (interj.) An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.
7280  
7281  Ahey (interj.) Hey; ho.
7282  
7283  Ahigh (adv.) On high.
7284  
7285  "Ahold (adv.) Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold."
7286  
7287  Ahorseback (adv.) On horseback.
7288  
7289  "Ahoy (interj.) A term used in hailing; as, ""Ship ahoy."""
7290  
7291  "Ahriman (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light."
7292  
7293  Ahu (n.) The Asiatic gazelle.
7294  
7295  "Ahull (adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n."
7296  
7297  Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
7298  
7299  Ais (pl. ) of Ai
7300  
7301  Ai (n.) The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.
7302  
7303  Aiblins (adv.) Alt. of Ablins
7304  
7305  Ablins (adv.) Perhaps; possibly.
7306  
7307  "Aich's metal () A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin."
7308  
7309  Aided (imp. & p. p.) of Aid
7310  
7311  Aiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aid
7312  
7313  "Aid (v. t.) 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."
7314  
7315  Aid (v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.
7316  
7317  Aid (v. t.) The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
7318  
7319  "Aid (v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan."
7320  
7321  Aid (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
7322  
7323  "Aid (v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid."
7324  
7325  Aidance (n.) Aid.
7326  
7327  Aidant (a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid.
7328  
7329  Aids-de-camp (pl. ) of Aid-de-camp
7330  
7331  "Aid-de-camp (n.) An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements."
7332  
7333  "Aider (n.) One who, or that which, aids."
7334  
7335  Aidful (a.) Helpful.
7336  
7337  Aidless (a.) Helpless; without aid.
7338  
7339  Aid-major (n.) The adjutant of a regiment.
7340  
7341  Aiel (n.) See Ayle.
7342  
7343  Aiglet (n.) Same as Aglet.
7344  
7345  Aigre (a.) Sour.
7346  
7347  Aigremore (n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder.
7348  
7349  Aigret (n.) Alt. of Aigrette
7350  
7351  Aigrette (n.) The small white European heron. See Egret.
7352  
7353  "Aigrette (n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc."
7354  
7355  Aigrette (n.) A tuft like that of the egret.
7356  
7357  "Aigrette (n.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle."
7358  
7359  Aiguille (n.) A needle-shaped peak.
7360  
7361  "Aiguille (n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting."
7362  
7363  Aiguillette (n.) A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.
7364  
7365  "Aiguillette (n.) One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms."
7366  
7367  Aigulet (n.) See Aglet.
7368  
7369  Ailed (imp. & p. p.) of Ail
7370  
7371  Ailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ail
7372  
7373  "Ail (v. t.) 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."
7374  
7375  Ail (v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
7376  
7377  Ail (n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.
7378  
7379  Ailanthus (n.) Same as Ailantus.
7380  
7381  "Ailantus (n.) 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."
7382  
7383  "Ailette (n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet."
7384  
7385  Ailment (n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
7386  
7387  "Ailuroidea (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas."
7388  
7389  Aimed (imp. & p. p.) of Aim
7390  
7391  Aiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aim
7392  
7393  "Aim (v. i.) 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."
7394  
7395  "Aim (v. i.) To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well."
7396  
7397  Aim (v. i.) To guess or conjecture.
7398  
7399  "Aim (v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)."
7400  
7401  "Aim (v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it."
7402  
7403  "Aim (v. i.) The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected."
7404  
7405  Aim (v. i.) Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
7406  
7407  Aim (v. i.) Conjecture; guess.
7408  
7409  "Aimer (n.) One who aims, directs, or points."
7410  
7411  "Aimless (a.) Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life."
7412  
7413  "Aino (n.) 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."
7414  
7415  Ain't () A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.
7416  
7417  "Air (n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable."
7418  
7419  "Air (n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile."
7420  
7421  "Air (n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc."
7422  
7423  "Air (n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air."
7424  
7425  Air (n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
7426  
7427  Air (n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
7428  
7429  Air (n.) That which surrounds and influences.
7430  
7431  Air (n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
7432  
7433  Air (n.) Intelligence; information.
7434  
7435  "Air (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria."
7436  
7437  "Air (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air."
7438  
7439  "Air (n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air."
7440  
7441  Air (n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.
7442  
7443  "Air (n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs."
7444  
7445  Air (n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
7446  
7447  "Air (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air."
7448  
7449  Air (n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
7450  
7451  Aired (imp. & p. p.) of Air
7452  
7453  Airing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Air
7454  
7455  "Air (n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room."
7456  
7457  "Air (n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion."
7458  
7459  "Air (n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to ai