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2
denoting a quantity consisting of one more than one; one plus one more; -- representing the number two as an Arabic numeral
Able-bodied
Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Abolishable
Capable of being abolished.
Abreaction
the purging of emotional tensions. See , below.
Abregge
See .
Absolvable
That may be absolved.
Absorbedly
In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
Acanthurus
type genus of the family ; doctorfishes.
Acatalepsy
Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
accompanyist
a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano).
Acholia
Deficiency or lack of bile.
Achras
tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
Acipenser
A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See .
Acritude
Acridity; pungency joined with heat.
Adessenarian
One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
Adjudicate
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Adjunct
Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
Adverbiality
The quality of being adverbial.
Advocation
The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
neid
The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is neas.
Affatuate
To infatuate.
Afoul
In collision; entangled.
Agglutination
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Agonistically
In an agonistic manner.
agueweed
a gentian of East North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
Agush
In a gushing state.
Ail
Indisposition or morbid affection.
airball
A throw at the basket that completely misses, not even hitting the rim. Compare and .
alarmism
the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings.
Albinotic
Affected with albinism.
Alible
Nutritive; nourishing.
Alleyed
Furnished with alleys; forming an alley.
Almost
Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
Ambiguity
The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
Ambition
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Amel
Enamel.
Amnestic
Causing loss of memory.
Amphigenesis
Sexual generation; amphigony.
An
If; -- a word used by old English authors.
Analogal
Analogous.
Andine
Andean; .
Andricus
a genus of cynipid gall wasps, chiefly affecting oaks.
Angelify
To make like an angel; to angelize.
Anglo-Indian
relating to British India or the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages.
Animadversal
The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
Annuent
Nodding; .
Anomaliped
One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.
Anomalopidae
a natural family comprising the flashlightfishes.
Anorn
To adorn.
Antimason
One opposed to Freemasonry.
Antimephitic
Good against mephitic or deleterious gases.
antimycin
one of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of , active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A () and antimycin A (). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.
Antiodontalgic
Efficacious in curing toothache.
Antipathic
Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.
Antipope
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.
antitussive
a medicament used to suppress or relieve coughing; an antitussive substance.
Aperu
A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.
Aplodontiidae
a family of mammals comprising the mountain beavers.
apnoeic
same as .
Apocalyptically
By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.
Apodosis
The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the , and thus distinguished from the or clause which expresses a . Thus, in the sentence, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, the former clause is the , and the latter the .
Aponeurotomy
Dissection of aponeuroses.
Apple-squire
A pimp; a kept gallant.
Appointer
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.
appropriated
taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.
Approvement
Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
Aquarian
One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.
Arbiter
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.
arboresque
resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
Archangel
A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
Archivolt
The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.
Archontate
An archon's term of office.
Argillaceous
Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.
Aroid
Any plant of the Arum family (); -- have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe.
Arrogation
The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.
Arrow grass
An herbaceous grasslike plant (, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
Articled
Bound by articles; apprenticed; .
Asiarch
One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.
Asparagaceae
one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae: includes genera Asparagus and sometimes Ruscus.
Aspidobranchia
A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
Assure
To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
Astringer
A falconer who keeps a goshawk.
Aurochloride
The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also .
Austerity
Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Automatous
Automatic.
Autophoby
Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical.
Averpenny
Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.
Averseness
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.