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12
denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units; -- representing the number twelve as Arabic numerals
29
denoting a quantity consisting of twenty-nine items or units; -- representing the number twenty-nine as Arabic numerals
Abandon
To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Abjudicate
To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
Abstinent
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
Acaridae
the family consisting of mites.
Accadian
Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
Accelerograph
An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
Accumulation
The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; .
Accuser
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Achievance
Achievement.
Achiote
Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.
Achromatous
Lacking, or deficient in, color; .
Acicula
One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
Acquiet
To quiet.
acquired
gotten through environmental forces. Contrasted with .
Admiralship
The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
Adore
To adorn.
Advantage
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; .
thiops mineral
Same as .
Affined
Joined in affinity or by any tie.
Aflow
Flowing.
After-note
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
Afterwise
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
Agendum
Something to be done; in the , a memorandum book; also, a list of items to be considered. See .
Air pocket
A local region in the atmosphere having a downward movement and offering less than normal support for the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine, causing an airplane to drop suddenly. Same as .
airscrew
an .
Alabaster
A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
Alacrify
To rouse to action; to inspirit.
Albuminate
A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.
Albuminose
A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See .
Alkarsin
A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also .
all-important
of the greatest importance.
Allocate
To distribute or assign; to allot.
Almonership
The office of an almoner.
Although
Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Amaranthaceae
a cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.
Amazing
Causing amazement; very wonderful; .
Amish
The Amish Mennonites.
Amplificative
Amplificatory.
-ana
A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, of Johnson, etc.
Anacoluthon
A lack of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.
Anaphrodisia
Absence of sexual appetite.
Anas
A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Anchored
Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; ; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; .
anchorperson
an or . The usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.
Anglo-Indian
a person of English citizenship born or living in India.
Annalistic
Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; .
Annalize
To record in annals.
Annodated
Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S.
Annulary
Having the form of a ring; annular.
Anthokyan
The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as .
Antichristianly
In an antichristian manner.
Antiscriptural
Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.
Antistrumatic
Antistrumous.
Apaum
See .
Appellor
The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.
Apposable
Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand; able to be brought into direct spatial opposition.
Appropriate
A property; attribute.
Approval
Approbation; sanction.
Aptychus
A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.
Aquifoliaceae
a family of widely distributed shrubs and trees.
Arbitrary
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules;
Arietate
To butt, as a ram.
Armchair
A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.
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.
Arreption
The act of taking away.
Artifact
A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
arugula
an erect European annual ( ) of the mustard family, often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
Ascertainment
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
Assassinous
Murderous.
Assecution
An obtaining or acquiring.
Assigner
One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
assimilating
tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
Associate
To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; .
Attempt
To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay;
Attendant
One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
Atterrate
To fill up with alluvial earth.
Auriscope
An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Auspicious
Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; .
Autoclastic
Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.
Axle box
A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
Axman
One who wields an ax.