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Abirritative
Characterized by abirritation or debility.
Able-bodied
Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Abolishable
Capable of being abolished.
Abstinency
Abstinence.
Abstractedness
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
Absume
To consume gradually; to waste away.
Accessibility
The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.
Accipenser
See .
Acerbitude
Sourness and harshness.
Acetary
An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.
Acme
The top or highest point; the culmination.
Acquirement
The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
Actinosome
The entire body of a clenterate.
Admiralty
The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
Ado
To do; in doing; .
Adolescence
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
adrenosterone
a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland.
Adynamic
Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
Aromancy
Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.
ruginous
Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.
rugo
The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.
Aery
An aerie.
Afield
To, in, or on the field.
Aflush
In a flushed or blushing state.
Ageless
Without old age limits of duration; .
Agendum
Something to be done; in the , a memorandum book; also, a list of items to be considered. See .
Aghast
See ,
Agony
Violent contest or striving.
Aiguille
A needle-shaped peak.
aircrew
the crew of an aircraft.
Alexiteric
A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general.
Ambigenous
Of two kinds.
Ametabola
A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
Amioid
Like or pertaining to the Amioidei.
Amiss
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Amiss
A fault, wrong, or mistake.
Ammotragus
a genus of wild sheep.
Amolition
Removal; a putting away.
Amusement
Deep thought; muse.
Anacardiaceous
Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.
Ancientness
The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
Anew
Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh;
Angelot
A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
Angle of incidence
The angle between the chord of an arocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current.
Anglicize
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Angular
Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; .
Announcer
One who announces.
Anteflexion
A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.
Anthropotomical
Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.
Antialbumose
See .
Antichlor
Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
Antilithic
Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed.
Antipapal
Opposed to the pope or to popery.
Antivivisection
Opposition to vivisection.
Anywhither
To or towards any place.
Apostematous
Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
Appoint
To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
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 .
Arc
A portion of a curved line; .
Archon
One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
Argentinian
of or pertaining to Argentina or its inhabitants.
Argon
A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, ; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1 C. and to a solid melting at -189.6 C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0 C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g.
Aristocratism
The principles of aristocrats.
Armored cruiser
A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing and cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.
Arow
In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.
Arrasene
A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.
Arraught
Obtained; seized.
Arrestation
Arrest.
Arterial
Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries;
Aruspex
One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.
Ascomycota
a phylum of higher fungi, coextensive with the class . It comprises Hemiascomycetes; Plectomycetes; Pyrenomycetes; Discomycetessac fungi; in some classification systems it is considered a division of the kingdom Fungi.
Assemblance
Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
Assure
To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
Attemperly
Temperately.
Attire
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Aussie
a native or inhabitant of Australia.
Authentic
An original (book or document).
Autonomy
The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
Av
the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August).
Avoyer
A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
axiological
of or pertaining to axiology.
azotemic
of or pertaining to azotemia.