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16
denoting a quantity consisting of one more than fifteen and one less than seventeen; -- representing the number sixteen as Arabic numerals
Abanet
See .
Abdication
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; .
Acanthopterygii
An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
Acceptableness
The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
Accountable
Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; .
Acetated
Combined with acetic acid.
Acid process
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to .
Acquittance
The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
Acrobat
One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Actionable
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; .
Acuity
Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
Acyl
An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl. An acyl radical can be depicted as , where is the carbonyl group, and R is the group that characterizes the acyl moiety.
Additionary
Additional.
Adit
An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also and .
Adminiculary
Adminicular.
Admortization
The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See .
Adust
Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Advance
Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for ;
Advoyer
See .
dile
A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.
Affectively
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
Aftergame
A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.
agenda
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Agglutinate
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Alcoholic
A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.
Alepidote
Not having scales.
Aliped
Wing-footed, as the bat.
allergenic
of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.
Aloof
Away from; clear from.
Alow
Below; in a lower part.
Ambrotype
A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
Amethodist
One without method; a quack.
Amicability
The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
Amphibiological
Pertaining to amphibiology.
Amuletic
Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
anabiosis
suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.
Anaclastic
Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; .
Analectic
Relating to analects; made up of selections; .
Anchylotic
Of or pertaining to anchylosis.
Anciently
In ancient times.
Ancillary administration
An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
Andrenidae
a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground.
Anemograph
An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.
Angle of incidence
The angle between the chord of an arocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current.
Angler
One who angles.
Anisopleura
A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.
Ankylose
Same as .
anointment
The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.
Ant-bear
An edentate animal of tropical America (the ), living on ants. It belongs to the genus .
anti-abortion
opposed to legal voluntary abortion.
Antiphon
A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See , and .
Antipyrotic
Good against burns or pyrosis.
Antitheist
A disbeliever in the existence of God.
Anvil
An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
Apocalyptically
By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.
Apogean
Connected with the apogee; .
Apotelesmatic
Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
Apparel
External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
Apparitor
Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
Approximator
One who, or that which, approximates.
Aptera
Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.
aqualung
an apparatus containing compressed air or other oxygen-gas mixture, permitting a person to breathe under water; -- also called a .
Aquilon
The north wind.
Aratory
Contributing to tillage.
Arbustive
Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs.
Arch
To cover with an arch or arches.
Archaical
Archaic.
Archencephala
The division that includes man alone.
Architecture
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called .
Archpriest
A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
Ardennes
a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II.
Aria
An air or song; a melody; a tune.
Arianize
To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian.
Aristotelianism
The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
Array
To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
Artful
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
Ascaphus
the type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family .
ascolichen
a in which the fungus component is an ascomycete.
Assiduity
Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
Assignation
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Assignor
An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; .
Atokous
Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.
Atrichornis
the type genus of the .
Attainable
Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.
Attaintment
Attainder; attainture; conviction.
Attestive
Attesting; furnishing evidence.
Attitudinize
To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
Aurate
A combination of auric acid with a base; .
Autoradiography
the process of producing an by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.
Aversely
Backward; in a backward direction; .
aviate
fly an airplane.
Awsome
Same as .