| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| abaction | noun | Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaculus | noun | A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| abacuses | plural | of Abacus |
| abasedly | adverb | Abjectly; downcastly. |
| abashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Abash |
| abatable | adjective | Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance. |
| abatised | adjective | Provided with an abatis. |
| abattoir | noun | A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. |
| abatvoix | noun | The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. |
| abbacies | plural | of Abbacy |
| abbatial | adjective | Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights. |
| abb wool | See Abb. | |
| abderian | adjective | Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abderite | noun | An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. |
| abdicant | adjective | Abdicating; renouncing; — followed by of., One who abdicates. |
| abdicate | verb 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., To renounce; to relinquish; — said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc., To reject; to cast off., To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit., To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. |
| abditive | adjective | Having the quality of hiding. |
| abditory | noun | A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| abducing | present participle & vb. noun | of Abduce |
| abducted | imp. & past participle | of Abduct |
| abductor | noun | One who abducts., 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. |
| abearing | noun | Behavior. |
| abelmosk | noun | An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus — formerly Abelmoschus — moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; — sometimes called musk mallow. |
| aberrant | adjective | Wandering; straying from the right way., Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. |
| aberrate | verb i. | To go astray; to diverge. |
| abetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Abet |
| abetment | noun | The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. |
| abeyance | noun | Expectancy; condition of being undetermined., Suspension; temporary suppression. |
| abeyancy | noun | Abeyance. |
| abhorred | imp. & past participle | of Abhor |
| abhorrer | noun | One who abhors. |
| abidance | noun | The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). |
| abietene | noun | A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California. |
| abietine | noun | A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
| abietite | noun | A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). |
| abiogeny | noun | Same as Abiogenesis. |
| abjectly | adverb | Meanly; servilely. |
| abjugate | verb t. | To unyoke. |
| abjuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Abjure |
| ablation | noun | A carrying or taking away; removal., Extirpation., Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablative | adjective | Taking away or removing., 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., The ablative case. |
| ablegate | verb t. | To send abroad., 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. |
| ableness | noun | Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
| abligate | verb t. | To tie up so as to hinder from. |
| ablution | noun | The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite., The water used in cleansing., 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. |
| abluvion | noun | That which is washed off. |
| abnegate | verb t. | To deny and reject; to abjure. |
| abnodate | verb t. | To clear (tress) from knots. |
| abnormal | adjective | Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. |
| abodance | noun | An omen; a portending. |
| abomasum | noun | Alt. of Abomasus |
| abomasus | noun | The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia. |
| aborsive | adjective | Abortive. |
| abortion | noun | The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage., The immature product of an untimely birth., Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed., 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. |
| abortive | verb | Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child., Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum., Rendering fruitless or ineffectual., Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt., Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc., Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines., Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever., That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion., A fruitless effort or issue., A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. |
| abounded | imp. & past participle | of Abound |
| abradant | noun | A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. |
| abrading | present participle & vb. noun | of Abrade |
| abrasion | noun | The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins., The substance rubbed off., A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrasive | adjective | Producing abrasion. |
| abricock | noun | See Apricot. |
| abridged | imp. & past participle | of Abridge |
| abridger | noun | One who abridges. |
| abrogate | adjective | Abrogated; abolished., 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., To put an end to; to do away with. |
| abruptly | adverb | In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly., Precipitously. |
| abscissa | noun | One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
| absented | imp. & past participle | of Absent |
| absentee | noun | One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. |
| absenter | noun | One who absents one’s self. |
| absently | adverb | In an absent or abstracted manner. |
| absinthe | noun | The plant absinthium or common wormwood., A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol. |
| absolute | adjective | Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch., Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty., 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., Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing., Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative., Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful., Authoritative; peremptory., Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol., Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative., In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. |
| absolved | imp. & past participle | of Absolve |
| absolver | noun | One who absolves. |
| absonant | adjective | Discordant; contrary; — opposed to consonant. |
| absonous | adjective | Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. |
| absorbed | imp. & past participle | of Absorb |
| absorber | noun | One who, or that which, absorbs. |
| absterge | verb t. | To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. |
| absterse | verb t. | To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. |
| abstract | adjective | Withdraw; separate., 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., 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., Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, “reptile” is an abstract or general name., Abstracted; absent in mind., To withdraw; to separate; to take away., To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects., To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute., To epitomize; to abridge., To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till., 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., To perform the process of abstraction., 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., A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things., An abstract term., 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. |
| abstrude | verb t. | To thrust away. |
| abstruse | adjective | Concealed or hidden out of the way., Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. |
| absurdly | adverb | In an absurd manner. |
| abundant | adjective | Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; — followed by in, rarely by with. |
| abusable | adjective | That may be abused. |
| abuseful | adjective | Full of abuse; abusive. |
| abutting | present participle & vb. noun | of Abut |
| abutilon | noun | A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; — called also Indian mallow. |
| abutment | noun | State of abutting., That on or against which a body abuts or presses, The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut., 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., In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil. |
| academic | adjective | Alt. of Academical, One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist., A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. |
| acalephs | plural | of Acalephan |
| acanthus | noun | A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear’s-breech., An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); — used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. |
| acardiac | adjective | Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus. |
| acaridan | noun | One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| acarpous | adjective | Not producing fruit; unfruitful. |
| acaudate | adjective | Tailless. |
| acauline | adjective | Same as Acaulescent. |
| acaulose | adjective | Alt. of Acaulous |
| acaulous | adjective | Same as Acaulescent. |
| accadian | adjective | Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| acceding | present participle & vb. noun | of Accede |
| accensor | noun | One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. |
| accented | imp. & past participle | of Accent |
| accentor | noun | One who sings the leading part; the director or leader., A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
| accepted | imp. & past participle | of Accept |
| accepter | noun | A person who accepts; a taker., A respecter; a viewer with partiality., An acceptor. |
| acceptor | noun | One who accepts, one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. |
| accident | noun | Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one’s foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident., A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case., A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms., A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute., A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness., Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident., Unusual appearance or effect. |
| accismus | noun | Affected refusal; coyness. |
| accolade | noun | A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword., A brace used to join two or more staves. |
| accorded | imp. & past participle | of Accord |
| accorder | noun | One who accords, assents, or concedes. |
| accosted | imp. & past participle | of Accost, Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. |
| accouple | verb t. | To join; to couple. |
| accouter | verb t. | Alt. of Accoutre |
| accoutre | verb t. | To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. |
| accredit | verb t. | To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction., To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate., To believe; to credit; to put trust in., To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. |
| accresce | verb i. | To accrue., To increase; to grow. |
| accroach | verb t. | To hook, or draw to one’s self as with a hook., To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. |
| accruing | present participle & vb. noun | of Accrue |
| accumber | verb t. | To encumber. |
| accuracy | noun | The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. |
| accurate | adjective | In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc., Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. |
| accursed | past participle & adjective | Alt. of Accurst |
| accusant | noun | An accuser. |
| accusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Accuse |
| accustom | verb t. | To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; — with to., To be wont., To cohabit., Custom. |
| aceldama | noun | The potter’s field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| acentric | adjective | Not centered; without a center. |
| acephala | noun 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. |
| acephali | noun pl. | A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads., A Christian sect without a leader., Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control., A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I. |
| acerbate | verb t. | To sour; to imbitter; to irritate. |
| acerbity | noun | Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit., Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. |
| acervate | verb t. | To heap up., Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters. |
| acervose | adjective | Full of heaps. |
| acescent | adjective | Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour., A substance liable to become sour. |
| acetable | noun | An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. |
| acetated | adjective | Combined with acetic acid. |
| acetonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies. |
| achatina | noun | A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| achatour | noun | Purveyor; acater. |
| achenium | noun | A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; — called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. |
| achenial | adjective | Pertaining to an achene. |
| achieved | imp. & past participle | of Achieve |
| achiever | noun | One who achieves; a winner. |
| achilous | adjective | Without a lip. |
| acholous | adjective | Lacking bile. |
| achronic | adjective | See Acronyc. |
| achroous | adjective | Colorless; achromatic. |
| achylous | adjective | Without chyle. |
| achymous | adjective | Without chyme. |
| aciculae | plural | of Acicula |
| acicular | adjective | Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. |
| acidific | adjective | Producing acidity; converting into an acid. |
| acidness | noun | Acidity; sourness. |
| acierage | noun | The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. |
| acinaces | noun | A short sword or saber. |
| acinesia | noun | Same as Akinesia. |
| acinetae | noun pl. | A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria. |
| acologic | adjective | Pertaining to acology. |
| aconital | adjective | Of the nature of aconite. |
| aconitia | noun | Same as Aconitine. |
| aconitic | adjective | Of or pertaining to aconite. |
| aconitum | noun | The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. |
| acontias | noun | Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards. |
| acosmism | noun | A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. |
| acosmist | noun | One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. |
| acoustic | adjective | Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory., A medicine or agent to assist hearing. |
| acquaint | verb t. | Acquainted., To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; — followed by with., 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., To familiarize; to accustom. |
| acquired | imp. & past participle | of Acquire |
| acquirer | noun | A person who acquires. |
| acranial | adjective | Wanting a skull. |
| acreable | adjective | Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce. |
| acridity | noun | Alt. of Acridness |
| acrimony | noun | A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants., Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. |
| acritude | noun | Acridity; pungency joined with heat. |
| acroatic | adjective | Same as Acroamatic. |
| acrodont | noun | One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge., Of or pertaining to the acrodonts. |
| acrolein | noun | A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. |
| acrolith | noun | A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. |
| acromial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the acromion. |
| acromion | noun | The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
| acrostic | noun | A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto., A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian., Alt. of Acrostical |
| acrotism | noun | Lack or defect of pulsation. |
| actiniae | plural | of Actinia |
| actinias | plural | of Actinia |
| actinism | noun | The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography. |
| actinium | noun | A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; — so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light. |
| actinoid | adjective | Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia. |
| actinost | noun | One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish. |
| actinula | noun pl. | A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
| activate | verb t. | To make active. |
| actively | adverb | In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one’s own action; voluntarily, not passively., In an active signification; as, a word used actively. |
| activity | noun | The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. |
| actually | adverb | Actively., In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. |
| actuated | imp. & past participle | of Actuate |
| actuator | noun | One who actuates, or puts into action. |
| acuation | noun | Act of sharpening. |
| acuition | noun | The act of sharpening. |
| aculeate | adjective | Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle., Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles., Severe or stinging; incisive. |
| aculeous | adjective | Aculeate. |
| adamical | adjective | Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. |
| adapting | present participle & vb. noun | of Adapt |
| adaption | noun | Adaptation. |
| adaptive | adjective | Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. |
| addendum | noun | A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. |
| addicted | imp. & past participle | of Addict |
| addition | noun | The act of adding two or more things together; — opposed to subtraction or diminution., Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building., That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers., A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half., 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., Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; — opposed to abatement. |
| additive | adjective | Proper to be added; positive; — opposed to subtractive. |
| additory | adjective | Tending to add; making some addition. |
| addlings | noun pl. | Earnings. |
| addorsed | adjective | Set or turned back to back. |
| adducing | present participle & vb. noun | of Adduce |
| adducent | adjective | Bringing together or towards a given point; — a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. |
| adductor | noun | A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; — opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. |
| adelopod | noun | An animal having feet that are not apparent. |
| adelphia | noun | A “brotherhood,” or collection of stamens in a bundle; — used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgy | noun | Pain in a gland. |
| adenitis | noun | Glandular inflammation. |
| adeption | adjective | An obtaining; attainment. |
| adeptist | noun | A skilled alchemist. |
| adequacy | noun | The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure. |
| adequate | adjective | Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition., To equalize; to make adequate., To equal. |
| adfected | verb | See Affected, 5. |
| adhamant | adjective | Clinging, as by hooks. |
| adhering | present participle & vb. noun | of Adhere |
| adherent | adjective | Sticking; clinging; adhering., Attached as an attribute or circumstance., Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals., 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., That which adheres; an appendage. |
| adhesion | noun | The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like., Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy., Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent., The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion., Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process., The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. |
| adhesive | adjective | Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances., Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. |
| adiantum | noun | A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort. |
| adipsous | adjective | Quenching thirst, as certain fruits. |
| adjacent | adjective | Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway., That which is adjacent. |
| adjoined | imp. & past participle | of Adjoin |
| adjudged | imp. & past participle | of Adjudge |
| adjudger | noun | One who adjudges. |
| adjugate | verb t. | To yoke to. |
| adjument | noun | Help; support; also, a helper. |
| adjuvant | noun | A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies., A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient., Helping; helpful; assisting., An assistant., An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. |
| adjuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Adjure |
| adjusted | imp. & past participle | of Adjust |
| adjuster | noun | One who, or that which, adjusts. |
| adjutage | noun | Same as Ajutage. |
| adjutant | noun | A helper; an assistant., A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty., 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. |
| adjutory | adjective | Serving to help or assist; helping. |
| adjutrix | noun | A female helper or assistant. |
| admiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Admire, Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. |
| admitted | imp. & past participle | of Admit, Received as true or valid; acknowledged. |
| admitter | noun | One who admits. |
| admonish | verb t. | To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort., To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; — followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause., To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify. |
| adnation | noun | The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs. |
| adopting | present participle & vb. noun | of Adopt |
| adoption | noun | The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one’s own child., Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another., The choosing and making that to be one’s own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. |
| adoptive | adjective | Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. |
| adorable | adjective | Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors., Worthy of the utmost love or respect. |
| adorably | adverb | In an adorable manner. |
| adorning | present participle & vb. noun | of Adorn |
| adragant | noun | Gum tragacanth. |
| adreamed | past participle | Visited by a dream; — used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. |
| adriatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice. |
| adrogate | verb t. | To adopt (a person who is his own master). |
| adroitly | adverb | In an adroit manner. |
| adscript | adjective | Held to service as attached to the soil; — said of feudal serfs., One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. |
| adstrict | noun | See Astrict, and Astriction. |
| adularia | noun | A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; — called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adulator | noun | A servile or hypocritical flatterer. |
| adultery | noun | The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband., Adulteration; corruption., Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment., Faithlessness in religion., The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery., The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop., Injury; degradation; ruin. |
| aduncity | noun | Curvature inwards; hookedness. |
| aduncous | adjective | Curved inwards; hooked. |
| adustion | noun | The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried., Cauterization. |
| advanced | imp. & past participle | of Advance, In the van or front., In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers., Far on in life or time. |
| advancer | noun | One who advances; a promoter., A second branch of a buck’s antler. |
| adverted | imp. & past participle | of Advert |
| advising | present participle & vb. noun | of Advise |
| advisory | adjective | Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. |
| advocacy | noun | The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession. |
| advocate | noun | One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor., One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth., Christ, considered as an intercessor., To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly., To act as advocate. |
| advoutry | noun | Alt. of Advowtry |
| advowtry | noun | Adultery. |
| advowson | noun | The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
| adynamia | noun | Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| adynamic | adjective | Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak., Characterized by the absence of power or force. |
| aecidium | noun | A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants. |
| aegilops | noun | An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye., The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed., A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. |
| aegrotat | noun | A medical certificate that a student is ill. |
| aerating | present participle & vb. noun | of Aerate |
| aeration | noun | Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc., A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization., The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen. |
| aerially | adverb | Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner. |
| aeriform | adjective | Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal. |
| aerobies | noun 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. |
| aerocyst | noun | One of the air cells of algals. |
| aerolite | noun | A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone. |
| aerolith | noun | Same as A/rolite. |
| aerology | noun | That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere. |
| aeronaut | noun | An aerial navigator; a balloonist. |
| aerostat | noun | A balloon., A balloonist; an aeronaut. |
| aesculin | noun | Same as Esculin. |
| aesthete | noun | One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics. |
| aestival | adjective | Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases. |
| aestuary | noun & adjective | See Estuary. |
| aestuous | adjective | Glowing; agitated, as with heat. |
| aethogen | noun | A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride. |
| affamish | verb t. & i. | To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. |
| affected | imp. & past participle | of Affect, Regarded with affection; beloved., Inclined; disposed; attached., Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real., Assumed artificially; not natural., Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. |
| affecter | noun | One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
| affeerer | noun | Alt. of Affeeror |
| affeeror | noun | One who affeers. |
| afferent | adjective | Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; — opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain. |
| affiance | noun | Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise., Trust; reliance; faith; confidence., To betroth; to pledge one’s faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one’s self or another) in marriage., To assure by promise. |
| affinity | noun | Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife’s blood relations, or between a wife and her husband’s blood relations); — in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; — followed by with, to, or between., Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages., Companionship; acquaintance., 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., A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin., 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. |
| affirmed | imp. & past participle | of Affirm |
| affirmer | noun | One who affirms. |
| affixing | present participle & vb. noun | of Affix |
| affixion | noun | Affixture. |
| afflatus | noun | A breath or blast of wind., A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. |
| affluent | adjective | Flowing to; flowing abundantly., Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches., A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream. |
| affodill | noun | Asphodel. |
| afforded | imp. & past participle | of Afford |
| afforest | verb t. | To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country. |
| affrayed | past participle | of Affray |
| affrayer | noun | One engaged in an affray. |
| affright | verb t. | To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm., Affrighted., Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror., The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. |
| affronte | adjective | Face to face, or front to front; facing. |
| affusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Affuse |
| affusion | noun | The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism., The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. |
| aflicker | adverb & adjective | In a flickering state. |
| aflutter | adverb & adjective | In a flutter; agitated. |
| aftereye | verb t. | To look after. |
| againbuy | verb t. | To redeem. |
| againsay | verb t. | To gainsay. |
| agalloch | noun | Alt. of Agallochum |
| agastric | adjective | Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm. |
| agedness | noun | The quality of being aged; oldness. |
| agencies | plural | of Agency |
| agenesic | adjective | Characterized by sterility; infecund. |
| agenesis | noun | Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization. |
| agential | adjective | Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. |
| ageratum | noun | A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters. |
| aggerate | verb t. | To heap up. |
| aggerose | adjective | In heaps; full of heaps. |
| aggrieve | verb 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., To grieve; to lament. |
| agiotage | noun | Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. |
| agitable | adjective | Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. |
| agitated | imp. & past participle | of Agitate |
| agitator | noun | One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators., One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell’s time, to look after their interests; — called also adjutators., An implement for shaking or mixing. |
| aglimmer | adverb & adjective | In a glimmering state. |
| aglitter | adverb & adjective | Glittering; in a glitter. |
| aglossal | adjective | Without tongue; tongueless. |
| agminate | adjective | Alt. of Agminated |
| agnation | noun | Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. |
| agnition | noun | Acknowledgment. |
| agnostic | adjective | Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism., 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. |
| agonized | imp. & past participle | of Agonize |
| agraphia | noun | The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| agraphic | adjective | Characterized by agraphia. |
| agrappes | noun pl. | Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. |
| agrarian | adjective | Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens., Wild; — said of plants growing in the fields., One in favor of an equal division of landed property., An agrarian law. |
| agreeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Agree |
| agrestic | adjective | Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. |
| agrimony | noun | A genus of plants of the Rose family., The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens). |
| agronomy | noun | The management of land; rural economy; agriculture. |
| agrostis | noun | A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses. |
| aigrette | noun | The small white European heron. See Egret., A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc., A tuft like that of the egret., A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle. |
| aiguille | noun | A needle-shaped peak., An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting. |
| ailantus | noun | A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom. |
| air cell | A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only., A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects. | |
| air cock | A faucet to allow escape of air. | |
| air hole | A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over., A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole. | |
| airiness | noun | The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat., Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons. |
| air pipe | A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe. | |
| air pump | A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space., A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air. | |
| airwards | adverb | Toward the air; upward. |
| akinesia | noun | Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| akinesic | adjective | Pertaining to akinesia. |
| alacrify | verb t. | To rouse to action; to inspirit. |
| alacrity | noun | A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. |
| alalonga | noun | Alt. of Alilonghi |
| alarming | present participle & vb. noun | of Alarm, Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. — A*larm”ing*ly, adv. |
| alarmist | noun | One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. |
| albacore | noun | See Albicore. |
| albanian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey., A native of Albania. |
| albicant | adjective | Growing or becoming white. |
| albicore | noun | A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. |
| albiness | noun | A female albino. |
| albinism | noun | The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy. |
| albolith | noun | A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; — called also albolite. |
| albumose | noun | A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose. |
| alburnum | noun | The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
| alcahest | noun | Same as Alkahest. |
| alchemic | adjective | Alt. of Alchemical |
| alchymic | noun | Alt. of Alchymy |
| alcohate | noun | Shortened forms of Alcoholate. |
| alcyones | noun pl. | The kingfishers. |
| alcyonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. |
| aldehyde | noun | A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation. |
| aldermen | plural | of Alderman |
| alderman | noun | A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity., One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions. |
| alderney | noun | One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3. |
| aleatory | adjective | Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. |
| alebench | noun | A bench in or before an alehouse. |
| aleberry | noun | A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. |
| alehouse | noun | A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. |
| alestake | noun | A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a “bush.” |
| aleurone | noun | An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (“protein granules”) in maturing seeds and tubers; — supposed to be a modification of protoplasm. |
| aleutian | adjective | Alt. of Aleutic |
| alewives | plural | of Alewife, of Alewife |
| alfenide | noun | An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. |
| alfresco | adverb & adjective | In the open-air. |
| algaroba | noun | The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John’s bread., The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
| algaroth | noun | A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic. |
| algerian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Algeria., A native of Algeria. |
| algerine | adjective | Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria., A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. |
| algidity | noun | Chilliness; coldness, coldness and collapse. |
| algology | noun | The study or science of algae or seaweeds. |
| algonkin | noun | One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. |
| algorism | noun | Alt. of Algorithm |
| alguazil | noun | An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. |
| alhambra | noun | The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
| alienage | noun | The state or legal condition of being an alien., The state of being alienated or transferred to another. |
| alienate | adjective | Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; — with from., To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of., To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; — with from., A stranger; an alien. |
| alienism | noun | The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage., The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. |
| alienist | noun | One who treats diseases of the mind. |
| alighted | imp. & past participle | of Alight |
| alinasal | adjective | Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage. |
| aliquant | adjective | An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot. |
| alitrunk | noun | The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. |
| alizarin | noun | A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds. |
| alkahest | noun | The fabled “universal solvent” of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. |
| alkalies | plural | of Alkali |
| alkalify | verb t. | To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to., To become changed into an alkali. |
| alkaline | adjective | Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. |
| alkalize | verb t. | To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to. |
| alkaloid | adjective | Alt. of Alkaloidal, An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. |
| alkargen | noun | Same as Cacodylic acid. |
| alkarsin | noun | A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; — called also Cadel’s fuming liquid. |
| alkermes | noun | A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient. |
| allanite | noun | A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition. |
| allaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Allay |
| allecret | noun | A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. |
| alleging | present participle & vb. noun | of Allege |
| allegory | noun | A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject., Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem., A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. |
| alleluia | noun | Alt. of Alleluiah |
| allerion | noun | Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. |
| alleyway | noun | An alley. |
| allfours | A game at cards, called “High, Low, Jack, and the Game.” | |
| all hail | interj. | All health; — a phrase of salutation or welcome. |
| all-hail | verb t. | To salute; to greet. |
| alliable | adjective | Able to enter into alliance. |
| alliance | noun | The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England., Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity., The persons or parties allied., To connect by alliance; to ally. |
| alligate | verb t. | To tie; to unite by some tie. |
| allision | noun | The act of dashing against, or striking upon. |
| allmouth | noun | The angler. |
| allnight | noun | Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. |
| allocate | verb t. | To distribute or assign; to allot., To localize. |
| allodial | adjective | Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; — opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system., Anything held allodially. |
| allodium | noun | Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. |
| allogamy | noun | Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization. |
| allopath | noun | An allopathist. |
| allotted | imp. & past participle | of Allot |
| allottee | noun | One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. |
| allotter | noun | One who allots. |
| allowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Allow |
| alloying | present participle & vb. noun | of Alloy |
| alloyage | noun | The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. |
| allspice | noun | The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush. |
| allthing | adverb | Altogether. |
| alluding | present participle & vb. noun | of Allude |
| alluring | present participle & vb. noun | of Allure, That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. |
| allusion | noun | A figurative or symbolical reference., A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint. |
| allusive | adjective | Figurative; symbolical., Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion. |
| allusory | adjective | Allusive. |
| alluvial | adjective | Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits. |
| alluvion | noun | Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank., An overflowing; an inundation; a flood., Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium., An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion. |
| alluvium | noun | Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. |
| allwhere | adverb | Everywhere. |
| allylene | noun | A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. |
| almagest | noun | The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. |
| almighty | adjective | Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible., Great; extreme; terrible. |
| almsdeed | noun | An act of charity. |
| almsfolk | noun | Persons supported by alms; almsmen. |
| alomancy | noun | Divination by means of salt. |
| alopecia | noun | Alt. of Alopecy |
| alouatte | noun | One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2. |
| alphabet | noun | The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language., The simplest rudiments; elements., To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. |
| alpigene | adjective | Growing in Alpine regions. |
| alpinist | noun | A climber of the Alps. |
| alquifou | noun | A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter’s ore. |
| alsatian | adjective | Pertaining to Alsatia., An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. |
| al segno | A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /. | |
| altarage | noun | The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church., The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. |
| altarist | noun | A chaplain., A vicar of a church. |
| altering | present participle & vb. noun | of Alter |
| alterant | adjective | Altering; gradually changing., An alterative. |
| alterity | noun | The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. |
| altheine | noun | Asparagine. |
| although | conj. | Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. |
| altincar | noun | See Tincal. |
| altitude | noun | Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree., The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon., The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc., Height of degree; highest point or degree., Height of rank or excellence; superiority., Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. |
| altrical | adjective | Like the articles. |
| altrices | noun pl. | Nursers, — a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; — opposed to praecoces. |
| altruism | noun | Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; — opposed to egoism or selfishness. |
| altruist | noun | One imbued with altruism; — opposed to egoist. |
| aluminic | adjective | Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate. |
| aluminum | noun | See Aluminium. |
| alunogen | noun | A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; — also called feather alum, and hair salt. |
| alveated | adjective | Formed or vaulted like a beehive. |
| alveolar | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. |
| alveolus | noun | A cell in a honeycomb., A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil, A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. |
| amadavat | noun | The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; — called also red waxbill. |
| amalgama | noun | Same as Amalgam. |
| amandine | noun | The vegetable casein of almonds., A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
| amaracus | noun | A fragrant flower. |
| amaranth | noun | An imaginary flower supposed never to fade., A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers., A color inclining to purple. |
| amassing | present participle & vb. noun | of Amass |
| amazedly | adverb | In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. |
| amazeful | adjective | Full of amazement. |
| ambes-as | noun | Ambs-ace. |
| ambition | noun | The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing., An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something., To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. |
| amblotic | adjective | Tending to cause abortion. |
| amblygon | noun | An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. |
| amblyopy | noun | Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis. |
| ambreate | noun | A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical. |
| ambrosia | noun | The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it., An unguent of the gods., A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell., Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. |
| ambrosin | noun | An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback. |
| ambs-ace | noun | Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value. |
| ambulant | adjective | Walking; moving from place to place. |
| ambulate | verb i. | To walk; to move about. |
| ambushed | imp. & past participle | of Ambush |
| ambusher | noun | One lying in ambush. |
| amelcorn | noun | A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; — called also French rice. |
| amenable | adjective | Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband., Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law., Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc., Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. |
| amenably | adverb | In an amenable manner. |
| amenance | noun | Behavior; bearing. |
| amending | present participle & vb. noun | of Amend |
| amendful | adjective | Much improving. |
| amercing | present participle & vb. noun | of Amerce |
| american | adjective | Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians., Of or pertaining to the United States., A native of America; — originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. |
| ames-ace | noun | Same as Ambs-ace. |
| amethyst | A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler’s stone., A purple color in a nobleman’s escutcheon, or coat of arms. | |
| amicable | adjective | Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. |
| amicably | adverb | In an amicable manner. |
| amidogen | noun | A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; — called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido. |
| amioidei | noun pl. | An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei. |
| amission | noun | Deprivation; loss. |
| ammodyte | noun | One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel., A kind of viper in southern Europe. |
| ammoniac | adjective | Alt. of Ammoniacal, Alt. of Gum ammoniac |
| ammonite | noun | A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis. |
| ammonium | noun | A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals. |
| amnestic | adjective | Causing loss of memory. |
| amniotic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. |
| amoebean | adjective | Alternately answering. |
| amoebian | noun | One of the Amoebea. |
| amoeboid | adjective | Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. |
| amoebous | adjective | Like an amoeba in structure. |
| amoneste | verb t. | To admonish. |
| amorette | noun | An amoret. |
| amorphas | plural | of Amorpha |
| amortise | noun | Alt. of Amortisement |
| amortize | verb t. | To make as if dead; to destroy., To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain., To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. |
| amounted | imp. & past participle | of Amount |
| amovable | adjective | Removable. |
| ampelite | noun | An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; — applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist. |
| amphibia | noun pl. | One of the classes of vertebrates., of Amphibium |
| amphigen | noun | An element that in combination produces amphid salt; — applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. |
| amphipod | noun | One of the Amphipoda., Alt. of Amphipodan |
| amphiuma | noun | A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
| amphoral | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora. |
| amphoric | adjective | Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance. |
| ampliate | verb t. | To enlarge., Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects. |
| ampullae | plural | of Ampulla |
| ampullar | adjective | Alt. of Ampullary |
| amputate | verb t. | To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils., To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body) |
| amuletic | adjective | Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm. |
| amurcous | adjective | Full off dregs; foul. |
| amusable | adjective | Capable of being amused. |
| amusette | noun | A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. |
| amyelous | adjective | Wanting the spinal cord. |
| anabasis | noun | A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called “The Anabasis.”, The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation. |
| anabatic | adjective | Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. |
| anabolic | adjective | Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature. |
| anaconda | noun | A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon. |
| anaglyph | noun | Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo. |
| anagogic | adjective | Alt. of Anagogical |
| anagraph | noun | An inventory; a record. |
| analcime | noun | A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name. |
| analcite | noun | Analcime. |
| analects | noun pl. | Alt. of Analecta |
| analecta | noun pl. | A collection of literary fragments. |
| analemma | noun | An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon., An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; — formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems., A scale of the sun’s declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe. |
| analepsy | Recovery of strength after sickness., A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder. | |
| analogal | adjective | Analogous. |
| analogic | adjective | Of or belonging to analogy. |
| analogon | noun | Analogue. |
| analogue | noun | That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing., A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin “pater” is the analogue of the English “father.”, An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations., A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group., A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. |
| analyser | noun | Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc. |
| analyses | plural | of Analysis |
| analysis | noun | A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis., The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis., The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles., The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations., A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order., A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis., The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key. |
| analytic | adjective | Alt. of Analytical |
| analyzed | imp. & past participle | of Analyze |
| analyzer | noun | One who, or that which, analyzes., The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. |
| anapaest | Alt. of Anapaestic | |
| anaphora | noun | A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses. |
| anapnoic | adjective | Relating to respiration. |
| anarchal | adjective | Lawless; anarchical. |
| anarchic | adjective | Alt. of Anarchical |
| anasarca | noun | Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin. |
| anastate | noun | One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; — opposed to katastate. |
| anathema | noun | A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed., An imprecation; a curse; a malediction., Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. |
| anatifae | plural | of Anatifa |
| anatifer | noun | Same as Anatifa. |
| anatomic | adjective | Alt. of Anatomical |
| ancestor | noun | One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father’s or mother’s side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father., An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse., One from whom an estate has descended; — the correlative of heir. |
| ancestry | noun | Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent., A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. |
| anchored | imp. & past participle | of Anchor, Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue., Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. |
| anchoret | noun | Alt. of Anchorite |
| anchusin | noun | A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root. |
| ancienty | noun | Age; antiquity., Seniority. |
| anconeal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. |
| anconeus | noun | A muscle of the elbow and forearm. |
| anconoid | adjective | Elbowlike; anconal. |
| andesine | noun | A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. |
| andesite | noun | An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. |
| anecdote | noun | Unpublished narratives., A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. |
| anemonic | adjective | An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin. |
| anemonin | noun | An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone. |
| aneurism | noun | A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. |
| angelage | noun | Existence or state of angels. |
| angelica | noun | An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic., The candied leaf stalks of angelica. |
| angelify | verb t. | To make like an angel; to angelize. |
| angelize | verb t. | To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. |
| angering | present participle & vb. noun | of Anger |
| angevine | adjective | Of or pertaining to Anjou in France., A native of Anjou. |
| anginous | adjective | Alt. of Anginose |
| anginose | adjective | Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris. |
| anglican | adjective | English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc., Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England., A member of the Church of England., In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England. |
| angulate | adjective | Alt. of Angulated, To make angular. |
| angulose | adjective | Angulous. |
| angulous | adjective | Angular; having corners; hooked. |
| anhelose | adjective | Anhelous; panting. |
| anhelous | adjective | Short of breath; panting. |
| animally | adverb | Physically. |
| animated | imp. & past participle | of Animate, Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. |
| animater | noun | One who animates. |
| animator | noun | One who, or that which, animates; an animater. |
| anisette | noun | A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. |
| ankerite | noun | A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. |
| ankylose | verb t. & i. | Same as Anchylose. |
| annalist | noun | A writer of annals. |
| annalize | verb t. | To record in annals. |
| annealed | imp. & past participle | of Anneal |
| annealer | noun | One who, or that which, anneals. |
| annelida | noun pl. | A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda. |
| anneloid | noun | An animal resembling an annelid. |
| annexing | present participle & vb. noun | of Annex |
| annexion | noun | Annexation. |
| annotate | noun | To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon., To make notes or comments; — with on or upon. |
| annotine | noun | A bird one year old, or that has once molted. |
| announce | verb t. | To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim., To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. |
| annoying | present participle & vb. noun | of Annoy, That annoys; molesting; vexatious. |
| annoyful | adjective | Annoying. |
| annoyous | adjective | Troublesome; annoying. |
| annually | adverb | Yearly; year by year. |
| annueler | noun | A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. |
| annulled | imp. & past participle | of Annul |
| annulary | adjective | Having the form of a ring; annular. |
| annulata | noun pl. | A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida. |
| annulate | noun | One of the Annulata., Alt. of Annulated |
| annuller | noun | One who annuls. |
| annuloid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Annuloida. |
| annulosa | noun pl. | A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only. |
| annulose | adjective | Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed., Of or pertaining to the Annulosa. |
| anointed | imp. & past participle | of Anoint |
| anointer | noun | One who anoints. |
| anomoura | noun pl. | A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example. |
| anomural | adjective | Alt. of Anomuran |
| anomuran | adjective | Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans., One of the Anomura. |
| anophyte | noun | A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves. |
| anoplura | noun pl. | A group of insects which includes the lice. |
| anorexia | noun | Alt. of Anorexy |
| anorthic | adjective | Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals. |
| anourous | adjective | See Anurous. |
| anserine | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose., Pertaining to the Anseres. |
| anserous | adjective | Resembling a goose; silly; simple. |
| answered | imp. & past participle | of Answer |
| answerer | noun | One who answers. |
| antacrid | adjective | Corrective of acrimony of the humors. |
| antagony | noun | Contest; opposition; antagonism. |
| antalgic | adjective | Alleviating pain., A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. |
| ant-bear | noun | An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. |
| ant bird | See Ant bird, under Ant, n. | |
| antecede | verb t. & i. | To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. |
| antedate | noun | Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date., Anticipation., To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution., To precede in time., To anticipate; to make before the true time. |
| antefact | noun | Something done before another act. |
| antefixa | plural | of Antefix |
| antelope | noun | One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. |
| antennae | plural | of Antenna |
| antennal | adjective | Belonging to the antennae. |
| antepast | noun | A foretaste. |
| antepone | verb t. | To put before; to prefer. |
| anteport | noun | An outer port, gate, or door. |
| anterior | adjective | Before in time; antecedent., Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; — opposed to posterior. |
| anteroom | noun | A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. |
| antevert | verb t. | To prevent., To displace by anteversion. |
| anthelia | plural | of Anthelion |
| anthelix | noun | Same as Antihelix. |
| anthemis | noun | Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants. |
| anthesis | noun | The period or state of full expansion in a flower. |
| ant-hill | noun | A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests. |
| anthozoa | noun pl. | The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria. |
| antiarin | noun | A poisonous principle obtained from antiar. |
| anticked | imp. & past participle | of Antic |
| anticous | adjective | Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily. |
| antidote | noun | A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; — used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison., Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce., To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote., To fortify or preserve by an antidote. |
| antilogy | noun | A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. |
| antimask | noun | A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. |
| antimere | noun | One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants. |
| antimony | noun | An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb. |
| antinomy | noun | Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule., An opposing law or rule of any kind., A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; — in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience. |
| antiphon | noun | A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone., A verse said before and after the psalms. |
| antipode | noun | One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. |
| antipole | noun | The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. |
| antipope | noun | One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism. |
| antipyic | adjective | Checking or preventing suppuration., An antipyic medicine. |
| antiscii | noun pl. | The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. |
| antithet | noun | An antithetic or contrasted statement. |
| antitype | noun | That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol. |
| antitypy | noun | Opposition or resistance of matter to force. |
| antlered | adjective | Furnished with antlers. |
| ant-lion | noun | A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius. |
| antozone | noun | A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; — so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen. |
| antrorse | adjective | Forward or upward in direction. |
| anything | noun | Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything., Expressing an indefinite comparison; — with as or like., In any measure; anywise; at all. |
| anywhere | adverb | In any place. |
| aoristic | adjective | Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense. |
| aortitis | noun | Inflammation of the aorta. |
| apagogic | adjective | Alt. of Apagogical |
| apastron | noun | That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary. |
| apathist | noun | One who is destitute of feeling. |
| apathies | plural | of Apathy |
| apellous | adjective | Destitute of skin. |
| apennine | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy. |
| aperient | adjective | Gently opening the bowels; laxative., An aperient medicine or food. |
| apertion | noun | The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. |
| aperture | noun | The act of opening., An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall., The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. |
| aphakial | adjective | Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes. |
| aphanite | noun | A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains. |
| aphelion | noun | That point of a planet’s or comet’s orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion. |
| aphetism | noun | An aphetized form of a word. |
| aphetize | verb t. | To shorten by aphesis. |
| aphidian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae., One of the aphides; an aphid. |
| aphonous | adjective | Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal. |
| aphorism | noun | A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. |
| aphorist | noun | A writer or utterer of aphorisms. |
| aphorize | verb i. | To make aphorisms. |
| aphthoid | adjective | Of the nature of aphthae; resembling thrush. |
| aphthong | noun | A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. |
| aphthous | adjective | Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever. |
| apiarian | adjective | Of or relating to bees. |
| apiarist | noun | One who keeps an apiary. |
| apicular | adjective | Situated at, or near, the apex; apical. |
| aplastic | adjective | Not plastic or easily molded. |
| aplotomy | noun | Simple incision. |
| aplustre | noun | An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship’s stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird’s feather. |
| apocynin | noun | A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum). |
| apodixis | noun | Full demonstration. |
| apodosis | noun | The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis. |
| apogamic | adjective | Relating to apogamy. |
| apograph | noun | A copy or transcript. |
| apollyon | noun | The Destroyer; — a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon. |
| apologer | noun | A teller of apologues. |
| apologue | noun | A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable. |
| apophyge | noun | The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; — called also the scape. |
| apoplexy | noun | Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. |
| apositic | adjective | Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger. |
| apostasy | noun | An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one’s faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian’s apostasy from Christianity. |
| apostate | noun | One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade., One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession., Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade., To apostatize. |
| aposteme | noun | An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. |
| apostume | noun | See Aposteme. |
| apothegm | noun | Alt. of Apophthegm |
| appalled | imp. & past participle | of Appall |
| appanage | noun | The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons., A dependency; a dependent territory., That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. |
| apparent | adjective | Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view., Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable., Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun., An heir apparent. |
| appealed | imp. & past participle | of Appeal, of Appease |
| appealer | noun | One who makes an appeal. |
| appeared | imp. & past participle | of Appear |
| appearer | noun | One who appears. |
| appeaser | noun | One who appeases; a pacifier. |
| appellee | noun | The defendant in an appeal; — opposed to appellant., The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; — opposed to appellor. |
| appellor | noun | The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime., One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. |
| appenage | noun | See Appanage. |
| appended | imp. & past participle | of Append |
| appendix | noun | Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant., Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies. |
| appetent | adjective | Desiring; eagerly desirous. |
| appetite | noun | The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind., Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger., Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing., Tendency; appetency., The thing desired. |
| appetize | verb t. | To make hungry; to whet the appetite of. |
| applause | noun | The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. |
| applique | adjective | Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work. |
| applying | present participle & vb. noun | of Apply |
| apporter | noun | A bringer in; an importer. |
| apposite | adjective | Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; — followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. |
| appraise | verb t. | To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels., To estimate; to conjecture., To praise; to commend. |
| apprised | imp. & past participle | of Apprise |
| apprizal | noun | See Appraisal. |
| apprizer | noun | An appraiser., A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. |
| approach | verb i. | To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer., To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman., To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance., To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood., To take approaches to., The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near., A access, or opportunity of drawing near., Movements to gain favor; advances., A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access., The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post., See Approaching. |
| appropre | verb t. | To appropriate. |
| approval | noun | Approbation; sanction. |
| approved | imp. & past participle | of Approve |
| approver | noun | One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial., An informer; an accuser., One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2., A bailiff or steward; an agent. |
| apricate | verb t. & i. | To bask in the sun. |
| a priori | Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori., Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. | |
| apronful | noun | The quantity an apron can hold. |
| apterous | adjective | Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects., Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; — opposed to alate. |
| aptitude | noun | A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn., A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation., Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. |
| aptychus | noun | A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula. |
| apyretic | adjective | Without fever; — applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. |
| apyrexia | noun | Alt. of Apyrexy |
| aquarial | adjective | Alt. of Aquarian |
| aquarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to an aquarium., One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord’s Supper. |
| aquarium | noun | An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept. |
| aquarius | noun | The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; — so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East., A constellation south of Pegasus. |
| aquatile | adjective | Inhabiting the water. |
| aquatint | noun | Alt. of Aquatinta |
| aqueduct | noun | A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water., A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain. |
| aquiform | adjective | Having the form of water. |
| aquiline | adjective | Belonging to or like an eagle., Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; — applied particularly to the nose |
| aquosity | noun | The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. |
| arabical | adjective | Relating to Arabia; Arabic. |
| araceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type. |
| arachnid | noun | An arachnidan. |
| araguato | noun | A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2. |
| aramaean | adjective | Alt. of Aramean |
| aramaism | noun | An idiom of the Aramaic. |
| araneida | noun pl. | Alt. of Araneoidea |
| araneina | noun pl. | The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. |
| araneose | adjective | Of the aspect of a spider’s web; arachnoid. |
| araneous | adjective | Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. |
| arangoes | plural | of Arango |
| arapaima | noun | A large fresh-water food fish of South America. |
| arbalest | noun | Alt. of Arbalist |
| arbalist | noun | A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. |
| arbitral | adjective | Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. |
| arborary | adjective | Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal. |
| arboreal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees., Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. |
| arboreta | plural | of Arboretum |
| arborist | noun | One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. |
| arborous | adjective | Formed by trees. |
| arbuscle | noun | A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. |
| arcadian | adjective | Alt. of Arcadic |
| archaean | adjective | Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history., The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life. |
| archaism | adjective | An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use., Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. |
| archaist | noun | Am antiquary., One who uses archaisms. |
| archaize | verb t. | To make appear archaic or antique. |
| archduke | noun | A prince of the imperial family of Austria. |
| archical | pref. | Chief; primary; primordial. |
| archival | adjective | Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. |
| archives | plural | of Archive |
| archlute | noun | Alt. of Archilute |
| archness | noun | The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. |
| archonts | present participle | The group including man alone. |
| archwife | noun | A big, masculine wife. |
| archwise | adverb | Arch-shaped. |
| arciform | adjective | Having the form of an arch; curved. |
| arctisca | noun pl. | A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| arcturus | noun | A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes. |
| arcuated | adjective | Bent or curved in the form of a bow. |
| ardently | adverb | In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately. |
| ardurous | adjective | Burning; ardent. |
| areolate | adjective | Alt. of Areolated |
| aretaics | noun | The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; — contrasted with eudemonics. |
| argental | adjective | Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver. |
| argentan | noun | An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver. |
| argentic | adjective | Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; — said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride. |
| argentry | noun | Silver plate or vessels. |
| argonaut | noun | Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece., A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta. |
| argosies | plural | of Argosy |
| arguable | adjective | Capable of being argued; admitting of debate. |
| argument | noun | Proof; evidence., A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it., A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation., The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem., Matter for question; business in hand., The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction., The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends., To make an argument; to argue. |
| argutely | adverb | In a subtle; shrewdly. |
| arhizous | adjective | Alt. of Arhythmous |
| arianism | noun | The doctrines of the Arians. |
| arianize | verb i. | To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian., To convert to Arianism. |
| aridness | noun | Aridity; dryness. |
| arietate | verb i. | To butt, as a ram. |
| arillate | adjective | Alt. of Ariled |
| arllated | adjective | Alt. of Ariled |
| aristate | adjective | Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned., Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip. |
| armament | noun | A body of forces equipped for war; — used of a land or naval force., All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification., Any equipment for resistance. |
| armature | noun | Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants., A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force., Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. |
| armchair | noun | A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. |
| armenian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Armenia., A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians., An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic. |
| armfulus | plural | of Armful |
| armgaunt | adjective | With gaunt or slender legs. (?) |
| arm-gret | adjective | Great as a man’s arm. |
| armillas | plural | of Armilla |
| armillae | plural | of Armilla |
| arminian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n., One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609). |
| armoniac | adjective | Ammoniac. |
| armorial | adjective | Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. |
| armorist | noun | One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. |
| armories | plural | of Armory |
| armozeen | noun | Alt. of Armozine |
| armozine | noun | A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. |
| arnicine | noun | An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant. |
| aromatic | adjective | Alt. of Aromatical, A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices. |
| arousing | present participle & vb. noun | of Arouse |
| arpeggio | noun | The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played. |
| arquated | adjective | Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. |
| arquebus | noun | Alt. of Arquebuse |
| arranged | imp. & past participle | of Arrange |
| arranger | noun | One who arranges. |
| arrantly | adverb | Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. |
| arrasene | noun | A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery. |
| arrastre | noun | A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold. |
| arraught | Obtained; seized. | |
| arraying | present participle & vb. noun | of Array |
| arrected | adjective | Lifted up; raised; erect., Attentive, as a person listening. |
| arrested | imp. & past participle | of Arrest |
| arrestee | verb | The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment. |
| arrester | noun | One who arrests., The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. |
| arrhizal | adjective | Alt. of Arrhizous |
| arrhytmy | noun | Want of rhythm. |
| arriving | present participle & vb. noun | of Arrive |
| arrogant | adjective | Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one’s self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; — applied to persons., Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; — applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. |
| arrogate | verb t. | To assume, or claim as one’s own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. |
| arrosion | noun | A gnawing. |
| arsenate | noun | A salt of arsenic acid. |
| arsenide | noun | A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; — formerly called arseniuret. |
| arsenite | noun | A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base. |
| arteriac | adjective | Of or pertaining to the windpipe. |
| arterial | adjective | Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system., Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. |
| arteries | plural | of Artery |
| artesian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. |
| artfully | adverb | In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily. |
| articled | imp. & past participle | of Article, Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk. |
| articuli | plural | of Articulus |
| artifice | noun | A handicraft; a trade; art of making., Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work., Artful or skillful contrivance., Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.] |
| artilize | verb t. | To make resemble. |
| artistic | adjective | Alt. of Artistical |
| artistry | noun | Works of art collectively., Artistic effect or quality., Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. |
| artotype | noun | A kind of autotype. |
| aruspice | noun | A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. |
| aruspicy | noun | Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice. |
| arvicole | noun | A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species. |
| aryanize | verb t. | To make Aryan (a language, or in language). |
| asbestic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine. |
| asbestus | noun | Alt. of Asbestos |
| asbestos | noun | A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine. |
| ascended | imp. & past participle | of Ascend |
| ascidian | noun | One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj. |
| ascidium | noun | A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia)., A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata. |
| ascribed | imp. & past participle | of Ascribe |
| ashantee | noun | A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa., Of or pertaining to Ashantee. |
| ash-fire | noun | A low fire used in chemical operations. |
| ash-oven | noun | A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making. |
| assinego | noun | A stupid fellow., See Asinego. |
| asmonean | adjective | Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty., One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c. |
| aspartic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid. |
| aspected | adjective | Having an aspect. |
| asperate | verb t. | To make rough or uneven. |
| asperges | noun | The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water., The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. |
| asperity | noun | Roughness of surface; unevenness; — opposed to smoothness., Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity., Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness., Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; — opposed to mildness., Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. |
| asperous | adjective | Rough; uneven. |
| aspersed | imp. & past participle | of Asperse, Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface., Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. |
| asperser | noun | One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. |
| asphalte | noun | Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2. |
| asphodel | noun | A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. |
| asphyxia | noun | Alt. of Asphyxy |
| aspirant | adjective | Aspiring., One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment. |
| aspirate | verb t. | To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant., A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound., A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing., An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc., Alt. of Aspirated |
| aspiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Aspire, That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind. |
| assailed | imp. & past participle | of Assail |
| assailer | noun | One who assails. |
| assamese | adjective | Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants., A native or natives of Assam. |
| assassin | noun | One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense., To assassinate. |
| assaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Assay, The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. |
| assecure | verb t. | To make sure or safe; to assure. |
| assemble | verb t. | To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate., To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate., To liken; to compare. |
| assembly | noun | A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment., A collection of inanimate objects., A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. |
| assented | imp. & past participle | of Assent |
| assenter | noun | One who assents. |
| asserted | imp. & past participle | of Assert |
| asserter | noun | One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. |
| assertor | noun | One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. |
| assessed | imp. & past participle | of Assess |
| assessee | noun | One who is assessed. |
| assessor | verb | One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors., One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office., One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. |
| assidean | noun | One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans. |
| assident | adjective | Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms. |
| assiento | noun | A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713. |
| assigned | imp. & past participle | of Assign |
| assignat | noun | One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state. |
| assignee | verb | A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor., In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. |
| assigner | noun | One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions. |
| assignor | noun | An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action. |
| assisted | imp. & past participle | of Assist |
| assister | noun | An assistant; a helper. |
| assistor | noun | A assister. |
| assizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Assize |
| assonant | adjective | Having a resemblance of sounds., Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. |
| assonate | verb i. | To correspond in sound. |
| assorted | imp. & past participle | of Assort, Selected; culled. |
| assuaged | imp. & past participle | of Assuage |
| assuager | noun | One who, or that which, assuages. |
| assuming | present participle & vb. noun | of Assume, Pretentious; taking much upon one’s self; presumptuous. |
| assument | noun | A patch; an addition; a piece put on. |
| assuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Assure, That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence. |
| assyrian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants., A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria. |
| asterias | noun | A genus of echinoderms. |
| asterion | noun | The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures. |
| asterisk | noun | The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character. |
| asterism | noun | A constellation., A small cluster of stars., An asterisk, or mark of reference., Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage., An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica. |
| asternal | adjective | Not sternal; — said of ribs which do not join the sternum. |
| asteroid | noun | A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; — called also planetoids and minor planets. |
| asthenia | noun | Alt. of Astheny |
| asthenic | adjective | Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating. |
| astomous | adjective | Not possessing a mouth. |
| astonied | past participle | Stunned; astonished. See Astony., of Astony |
| astonish | verb t. | To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow., To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion. |
| astraean | adjective | Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae., A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral. |
| astragal | noun | A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle., A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth. |
| astringe | verb t. | To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress., To bind by moral or legal obligation. |
| astrofel | noun | Alt. of Astrofell |
| astroite | noun | A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. |
| astucity | noun | Craftiness; astuteness. |
| asturian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain., A native of Asturias. |
| astyllen | noun | A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level. |
| aswooned | adverb | In a swoon. |
| asystole | noun | A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart. |
| ataraxia | noun | Alt. of Ataraxy |
| atechnic | adjective | Without technical or artistic knowledge. |
| athecata | noun pl. | A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian. |
| atheling | noun | An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. |
| athenaea | plural | of Athenaeum |
| atheneum | noun | Alt. of Athenaeum |
| athenian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece., A native or citizen of Athens. |
| atherine | noun | A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides. |
| atheroid | adjective | Shaped like an ear of grain. |
| atheroma | noun | An encysted tumor containing curdy matter., A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
| athletic | adjective | Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports., Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. |
| a-tiptoe | adverb | On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. |
| atlantal | adjective | Relating to the atlas., Anterior; cephalic. |
| atlantes | noun pl. | Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; — called also telamones. See Caryatides. |
| atlantic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph., Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis., Descended from Atlas. |
| atmology | noun | That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. |
| atmolyze | verb t. | To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis. |
| atomical | adjective | Of or pertaining to atoms., Extremely minute; tiny. |
| atomizer | noun | One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming. |
| atonable | adjective | Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable. |
| atrocity | noun | Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty., An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. |
| atrophic | adjective | Relating to atrophy. |
| atropine | noun | A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine. |
| atropism | noun | A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna. |
| atropous | adjective | Not inverted; orthotropous. |
| attached | imp. & past participle | of Attach |
| attacked | imp. & past participle | of Attack |
| attacker | noun | One who attacks. |
| attaghan | noun | See Yataghan. |
| attained | imp. & past participle | of Attain |
| attemper | verb t. | To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature., To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency., To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice., To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. |
| attended | imp. & past participle | of Attend |
| attender | noun | One who, or that which, attends. |
| attentat | noun | An attempt; an assault., A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed., Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge. |
| attently | adverb | Attentively. |
| attercop | noun | A spider., A peevish, ill-natured person. |
| attested | imp. & past participle | of Attest |
| attester | noun | Alt. of Attestor |
| attestor | noun | One who attests. |
| atticism | noun | A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians., The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression. |
| atticize | verb t. | To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica., To side with the Athenians., To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians. |
| attiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Attire |
| attitude | noun | The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue., The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty., Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one’s mental attitude in respect to religion. |
| attorney | noun | A substitute; a proxy; an agent., One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact., A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law., To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. |
| attuning | present participle & vb. noun | of Attune |
| atypical | adjective | That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type. |
| audacity | noun | Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness., Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; — implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. |
| audience | adjective | The act of hearing; attention to sounds., Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business., An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. |
| auditing | present participle & vb. noun | of Audit |
| audition | noun | The act of hearing or listening; hearing. |
| auditive | adjective | Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. |
| auditory | adjective | Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear., An assembly of hearers; an audience., An auditorium. |
| auditual | adjective | Auditory. |
| auguring | present participle & vb. noun | of Augur |
| augurate | verb t. & i. | To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict., The office of an augur. |
| augurial | adjective | Relating to augurs or to augury. |
| augurist | noun | An augur. |
| angurize | verb t. | To augur. |
| augurous | adjective | Full of augury; foreboding. |
| auguries | plural | of Augury |
| augustan | noun | Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times., Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. |
| augustly | adverb | In an august manner. |
| aularian | adjective | Relating to a hall., At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. |
| aulnager | noun | See Alnage and Alnager. |
| auncetry | noun | Ancestry. |
| auntrous | adjective | Adventurous. |
| aurelian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the aurelia., An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist. |
| auricled | adjective | Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves. |
| auricula | noun | A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear’s-ear., A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew’s-ear., A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish, One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin. |
| auriform | adjective | Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped. |
| ausonian | adjective | Italian. |
| auspices | plural | of Auspice |
| austrian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants., A native or an inhabitant of Austria. |
| austrine | noun | Southern; southerly; austral. |
| autarchy | noun | Self-sufficiency. |
| authorly | adjective | Authorial. |
| autocrat | adjective | An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar)., One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. |
| autogamy | noun | Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon. |
| automath | noun | One who is self-taught. |
| automata | plural | of Automaton |
| autonomy | noun | The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state., The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man’s power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. |
| autopsic | adjective | Alt. of Autopsical |
| autoptic | adjective | Alt. of Autoptical |
| autotype | noun | A facsimile., A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate. |
| autotypy | noun | The art or process of making autotypes. |
| autumnal | adjective | Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant., Past the middle of life; in the third stage. |
| auxiliar | adjective | Auxiliary., An auxiliary. |
| avadavat | noun | Same as Amadavat. |
| availing | present participle & vb. noun | of Avail |
| avaiably | adverb | In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously. |
| avellane | adjective | In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. |
| ave mary | A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; — used in the Roman Catholic church., A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. | |
| avenging | present participle & vb. noun | of Avenge |
| avenious | adjective | Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants. |
| aventail | noun | The movable front to a helmet; the ventail. |
| aventine | adjective | Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood., A post of security or defense. |
| aventure | noun | Accident; chance; adventure., A mischance causing a person’s death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. |
| averring | present participle & vb. noun | of Aver |
| averaged | imp. & past participle | of Average |
| avercorn | noun | A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. |
| averment | verb t. | The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion., Verification; establishment by evidence., A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged. |
| avernian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions. |
| aversely | adverb | Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely., With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly. |
| aversion | noun | A turning away., Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance., The object of dislike or repugnance. |
| averting | present participle & vb. noun | of Avert |
| aviaries | plural | of Aviary |
| aviation | noun | The art or science of flying. |
| avicular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds. |
| avidious | adjective | Avid. |
| avifauna | noun | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region. |
| aviseful | adjective | Watchful; circumspect. |
| avoiding | present participle & vb. noun | of Avoid |
| avouched | imp. & past participle | of Avouch |
| avoucher | noun | One who avouches. |
| avoutrer | noun | See Advoutrer. |
| avoutrie | noun | Adultery. |
| avowable | adjective | Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. |
| avowance | noun | Act of avowing; avowal., Upholding; defense; vindication. |
| avulsion | noun | A tearing asunder; a forcible separation., A fragment torn off., The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. |
| awaiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Await |
| awakened | imp. & past participle | of Awaken |
| awakener | noun | One who, or that which, awakens. |
| awanting | adjective | Missing; wanting. |
| awarding | present participle & vb. noun | of Award |
| awayward | adverb | Turned away; away. |
| awearied | past participle | Wearied. |
| aweather | adverb | On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; — opposed to alee; as, helm aweather! |
| awninged | adjective | Furnished with an awning. |
| aworking | adverb | At work; in action. |
| axillars | noun pl. | Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing. |
| axillary | adjective | Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve., Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. |
| axle box | A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes., The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. | |
| axletree | noun | A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve., A spindle or axle of a wheel. |
| ayegreen | noun | The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). |
| ayenward | adverb | Backward. |
| ayrshire | noun | One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk. |
| azotized | imp. & past participle | of Azotize |
| azureous | adjective | Of a fine blue color; azure. |