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Abada
The rhinoceros.
Abature
Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
Aboard
On board of; .
Abscission
The act or process of cutting off.
Absinthate
A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
Abstractedly
In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Abstringe
To unbind.
Acajou
The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See .
accenting
the act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Accomplish
To complete, as time or distance.
Acouchy
A small species of agouti ().
Across
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; .
Actinolite
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Acutifoliate
Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Ad captandum
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Address
To aim; to direct.
Adjuvant
A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Adulator
A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Adumbration
The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
Arolithology
The science of arolites.
Affix
To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of;
Aftergame
A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.
Afterpiece
A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
after-school
outside regular school hours.
Agreeable
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful;
Aich's metal
A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.
Aigre
Sour.
Airily
In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
Air-tight
So tight as to be impermeable to air or other gases; ; -- said of containers.
Air vessel
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see . The of insects are called , of plants .
ala
A winglike organ, or part.
Alcaic
Pertaining to Alcus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000
Aldermanly
Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
alligatorfish
small very elongate sea poachers.
Allocation
The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
Allocution
The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
Almshouse
A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
Amaze
To be astounded.
Ambergrease
See .
Ambulatory
Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; .
Amove
To move or be moved; to excite.
Amputate
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
Anarchize
To reduce to anarchy.
Angular
A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Angust
Narrow; strait.
Annihilative
Serving to annihilate; destructive.
Anorthic
Having unequal oblique axes; .
Ant egg
One of the small white egg-shaped pup or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.
Anthracometric
Of or pertaining to an anthracometer.
Anthropophagi
Man eaters; cannibals.
Antimetabole
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
Aphanitic
Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.
Aphilanthropy
Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of .
Apiary
A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.
Aplodontia
the type genus of the family , comprising the mountain beavers.
Apparency
Appearance.
Appear
To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
Apporter
A bringer in; an importer.
Approximation
The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.
Aqueous
Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.
Argentate
Silvery white.
armband
a band worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning.
Arragonite
See .
Articular
Of or pertaining to the joints;
Aspersive
Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.
Assistant
One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
astrobiology
exobiology; -- not used technically.
atomisation
separating something into fine particles.
Atrabilarian
A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.
Atrophy
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
Atropia
Same as .
Auction pitch
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or pitching the trump suit.
Aureate
Golden; gilded.
australopithecine
any of several extinct humanlike small-brained bipedal primates of the genus ; they existed from 1 to 4 million years ago.
Autohypnotic
Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.
Autopsorin
That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.
Awned
Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.