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Abactor
One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Abandoned
Forsaken, deserted.
Abandonee
One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
Abietite
A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe ().
Abjectly
Meanly; servilely.
Abricock
See .
Abstainer
One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Absumption
Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
Acetabulifera
The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See .
Acetifier
An apparatus for hastening acetification.
Achiote
Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.
Achromatopsy
Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
Acknowledger
One who acknowledges.
Acroterial
Pertaining to an acroterium; .
Acrylic resin
a thermoplastic made by polymerization of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid or some derivative of these (such as the esters or amides). It can be formed into a clear hard plastic, and is the basis for the commercial plastics called and .
Addendum
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Adiaphoristic
Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.
Adipocerate
To convert into adipocere.
Admirableness
The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
Admittance
The reciprocal of impedance.
Adsignification
Additional signification.
gilops
An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
Aneous
Colored like bronze.
ruginous
Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.
Affear
To frighten.
Affrap
To strike, or strike down.
Afront
In front; face to face.
Agavaceae
a natural family of chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae.
Aggrievance
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
Agrarian
One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
Agrostography
A description of the grasses.
Albacore
A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family (), esp. (formerly ); it is a type of or . The name has been also applied to a larger related species, (formerly ), common in the and , which is called in the .
Alecithal
Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
Aleconner
Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called .]
Alehoof
Ground ivy ().
Allower
An approver or abettor.
Alloxantin
A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.
Alterant
Altering; gradually changing.
Amalgamate
To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
Ambassadorial
Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
Amenableness
The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.
Ammeter
A contraction of or .
Amovable
Removable.
Anaphrodisia
Absence of sexual appetite.
Androphagous
Anthropophagous.
angiocarpic
of or pertaining to an angiocarp; angiocarpous.
Ankylose
Same as .
Anniversary
Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; .
Anomalous
Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; .
Anoxmia
An abnormal condition due to deficient aration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness.
Antiasthmatic
Same as .
Anticausodic
Same as .
Anticausotic
Good against an inflammatory fever.
Antimonate
A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.
Antispastic
Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.
Antithesis
An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal ; the miser . He had at Cromwell; he how at the Queen.
Antivivisection
Opposition to vivisection.
Apocrustic
Astringent and repellent.
Apothegmatize
To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.
Appendaged
Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
Applause
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.
appurtenances
miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Apsis
One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the ; the other, the ; and the line joining them, the .
Aquila
A genus of eagles.
Arabinose
A sugar of the composition , obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.
Arachnidan
One of the Arachnida.
Ardennes
a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II.
Areometer
An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer.
Areosystyle
See , and .
Argent
Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining.
Argentate
Silvery white.
Argol
Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.
Arianrod
a goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.
Aristate
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
Armorist
One skilled in coat armor or heraldry.
Articulata
One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.
Artilleryman
A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
Asclepiad
A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
Ashore
On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to or .
Assenting
Giving or implying assent.
Assignor
An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; .
Attain
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; .
Attemperate
To attemper.
Attendement
Intent.
Atterrate
To fill up with alluvial earth.
Auditor
A hearer or listener.
Auriscopy
Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.
Autocrat
An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; .
Autophagi
Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.
Avellane
In the form of four unhusked filberts; .
Avocado
The pulpy fruit of , a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also , , .
Avowal
An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; .
Awake
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Azygous
Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; .