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50
one more than fourty-nine; five times ten; denoting a quantity consisting of fifty items or units; -- representing the number fifty as an Arabic numeral
Abbacy
The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
Absorbedly
In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
Academian
A member of an academy, university, or college.
Academic
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Accessorial
Of or pertaining to an accessory; .
Acclivitous
Acclivous.
Accompletive
Tending to accomplish.
Accustomable
Habitual; customary; wonted.
Acescent
A substance liable to become sour.
Acetate
A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; .
A cheval
Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.
Achlamydate
Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
acknowledgeable
Capable of being acknowledged.
Acrogen
A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See .
Actaea
baneberry.
Adaw
To awaken; to arouse.
Adjectitious
Added; additional.
Administer
To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
Administratrix
A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
Admonishment
Admonition.
Admortization
The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See .
Adonize
To beautify; to dandify.
Adscript
One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
advertised
called to public attention.
cidium
A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
Arostatics
The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aronautics.
Affinitative
Of the nature of affinity.
Aforehand
Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to .
Aforethought
Premeditation.
Agedly
In the manner of an aged person.
Aggrievance
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
airbrake
a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft.
alarmism
the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings.
Aldehyde
A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Aldermanlike
Like or suited to an alderman.
Aline
To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
Alkoranist
Same as .
Alloxan
An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.
Ally
A relative; a kinsman.
Along
By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.
Aloof
Same as .
Alternateness
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
Aluminium
same as , chiefly British in usage.
Ambagitory
Ambagious.
Ambilevous
Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to .
Amblotic
Tending to cause abortion.
Ambrite
A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.
Amen-Ra
the ancient Egyptian sun god; supreme god of the universe in whom Amen and Ra were combined; principal deity during Theban supremacy.
Ammodytes
type genus of the Ammodytidae.
Amorphy
Shapelessness.
Amphichroic
Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
Ampulla
A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
Amused
Diverted.
amyloidosis
a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma.
An
If; -- a word used by old English authors.
Anacamptic
Reflecting of reflected; .
Anglomania
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
Anguineous
Snakelike.
Anisosthenic
Of unequal strength.
Annulary
Having the form of a ring; annular.
Annunciator
One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
Anteal
Being before, or in front.
Anticipative
Anticipating, or containing anticipation.
Antigraph
A copy or transcript.
Antiparalytical
Antiparalytic.
Aortic
Of or pertaining to the aorta.
Appellativeness
The quality of being appellative.
Approvement
Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
Arachnidium
The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.
Archdiocese
The diocese of an archbishop.
Armor-plated
Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
Around
On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.
Artillerist
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
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.
Ascend
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; .
Asclepiadaceae
a widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs most with milky juice; examples are the milkweeds (genus ).
Asking
The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.
Asonant
Not sounding or sounded.
Aspermatous
Aspermous.
Athlete
One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
Attractable
Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction.
Aularian
At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.
Ausonian
Italian.
Austrotaxus
a genus having but one species; the New Caledonian yew.
Authorizer
One who authorizes.
Autohypnotism
Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.
Averroist
One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.