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Anubis
  • (n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox

    Anurous
  • (a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

    Anus
  • (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

    Anvil
  • (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil

    Anxiety
  • (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium

    Anxious
  • (a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety

    Any
  • (a. & pron.) One indifferently, out of an indefinite number
  • (adv.) To any extent

    Anybody
  • (n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons

    Anyhow
  • (adv.) In any way or manner whatever

    Anyone
  • (n.) One taken at random rather than by selection

    Anything
  • (adv.) In any measure
  • (n.) Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever

    Anyways
  • (adv.) Anywise

    Anywhere
  • (adv.) In any place.

    Anywise
  • (adv.) In any wise or way

    Aorist
  • (n.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate

    Aorta
  • (n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs

    Aoudad
  • (n.) An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs

    Apace
  • (adv.) With a quick pace

    Aparejo
  • (n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans

    Apart
  • (adv.) Aside

    Apathy
  • (n.) Want of feeling

    Apatite
  • (n.) Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent

    Ape
  • (n.) A dupe.
  • (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions

    Apeak
  • (adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak

    Aperient
  • (a.) Gently opening the bowels
  • (n.) An aperient medicine or food.

    Aperture
  • (n.) An opening

    Apex
  • (n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.

    Aphakia
  • (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract

    Aphanite
  • (n.) A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains

    Aphelion
  • (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion

    Apheresis
  • (n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.

    Aphesis
  • (n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word

    Aphid
  • (n.) One of the genus Aphis

    Aphorism
  • (n.) A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words

    Aphorize
  • (v. i.) To make aphorisms.

    Aphotic
  • (a.) Without light.

    Aphrodisiac
  • (n.) That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.

    Aphrodite
  • (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

    Apian
  • (a.) Belonging to bees.

    Apiarian
  • (a.) Of or relating to bees.

    Apiarist
  • (n.) One who keeps an apiary.

    Apiary
  • (n.) A place where bees are kept

    Apical
  • (a.) At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

    Apiculture
  • (n.) Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

    Apiece
  • (adv.) Each by itself

    Apish
  • (a.) Having the qualities of an ape

    Aplacental
  • (a.) Belonging to the Aplacentata

    Aplanatic
  • (a.) Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration

    Aplasia
  • (n.) Incomplete or faulty development.

    Aplastic
  • (a.) Not plastic or easily molded.

    Aplomb
  • (n.) Assurance of manner or of action

    Apnoea
  • (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath

    Apocalypse
  • (n.) Anything viewed as a revelation

    Apocalyptist
  • (n.) The writer of the Apocalypse.

    Apocarpous
  • (a.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil

    Apochromatic
  • (a.) Free from chromatic and spherical aberration

    Apocope
  • (n.) A cutting off

    Apocrypha
  • (n. pl.) Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority

    Apodal
  • (n.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

    Apodosis
  • (n.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition

    Apodous
  • (a.) Apodal

    Apogamy
  • (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

    Apollo
  • (n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc

    Apologetics
  • (n.) That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority

    Apologist
  • (n.) One who makes an apology

    Apologize
  • (v. i.) To make an apology or defense.
  • (v. t.) To defend.

    Apologue
  • (n.) A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth

    Apology
  • (n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act
  • (v. i.) To offer an apology.

    Aponeurosis
  • (n.) Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciae which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles

    Apophasis
  • (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired

    Apophthegm
  • (n.) A short, pithy, and instructive saying

    Apophyge
  • (n.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet

    Apophyllite
  • (n.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface

    Apophysis
  • (n.) A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

    Apoplectic
  • (n.) One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

    Apoplexy
  • (n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain

    Aporia
  • (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc

    Aport
  • (adv.) On or towards the port or left side

    Aposematic
  • (a.) Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk

    Aposiopesis
  • (n.) A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind

    Apostasy
  • (n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed

    Apostate
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy
  • (n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
  • (v. i.) To apostatize.

    Apostatize
  • (v. i.) To renounce totally a religious belief once professed

    Apostle
  • (n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc

    Apostolate
  • (n.) The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle

    Apostolic
  • (n.) A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles

    Apostrophe
  • (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present

    Apostrophize
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) To address by apostrophe.
  • (v. i.) To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.

    Apothecary
  • (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

    Apothecium
  • (n.) The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

    Apotheosis
  • (n. pl.) Glorification

    Apotheosize
  • (v. t.) To exalt to the dignity of a deity

    Appalachian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains

    Appall
  • (a.) To depress or discourage with fear
  • (n.) Terror
  • (v. i.) To grow faint

    Appanage
  • (n.) A dependency

    Apparatus
  • (n.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function

    Apparel
  • (n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments
  • (v. t.) To dress or clothe

    Apparent
  • (a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real)
  • (n.) An heir apparent.

    Apparition
  • (n.) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance

    Appeal
  • (v. t.) A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor

    Appear
  • (n.) Appearance.
  • (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind

    Appease
  • (v. t.) To make quiet

    Appel
  • (n.) A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack

    Append
  • (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing

    Apperceive
  • (v. t.) To perceive

    Apperception
  • (n.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states

    Appertain
  • (v. i.) To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom

    Appetence
  • (n.) A longing

    Appetite
  • (n.) Any strong desire

    Appetizer
  • (n.) Something which creates or whets an appetite.

    Appetizing
  • (a.) Exciting appetite
  • (adv.) So as to excite appetite.

    Applaud
  • (v. i.) To express approbation loudly or significantly.
  • (v. t.) To praise by words

    Applause
  • (n.) The act of applauding

    Apple
  • (n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple
  • (v. i.) To grow like an apple

    Appliance
  • (n.) The act of applying

    Applicable
  • (a.) Capable of being applied

    Applicant
  • (n.) One who apples for something

    Application
  • (n.) A request

    Applicative
  • (a.) Capable of being applied or used

    Applicatory
  • (a.) Having the property of applying
  • (n.) That which applies.

    Apply
  • (v. i.) To apply or address one's self
  • (v. t.) To betake

    Appoggiatura
  • (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that

    Appoint
  • (v. i.) To ordain
  • (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

    Apportion
  • (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion

    Appose
  • (v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

    Apposite
  • (a.) Very applicable

    Apposition
  • (n.) The act of adding

    Appositive
  • (a.) Of or relating to apposition
  • (n.) A noun in apposition.

    Appraisal
  • (n.) A valuation by an authorized person

    Appraise
  • (v. t.) To estimate

    Appreciable
  • (a.) Capable of being appreciated or estimated

    Appreciate
  • (v. i.) To rise in value.
  • (v. t.) To be sensible of

    Appreciation
  • (n.) Accurate perception

    Appreciative
  • (a.) Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception

    Apprehend
  • (v. i.) To be apprehensive
  • (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process

    Apprehensible
  • (a.) Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

    Apprehension
  • (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable

    Apprehensive
  • (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming

    Apprentice
  • (n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant
  • (v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business

    Apprise
  • (n.) Notice
  • (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written

    Apprize
  • (v. t.) To appraise

    Approach
  • (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club
  • (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
  • (v. t.) To bring near

    Approbation
  • (n.) Probation or novitiate.

    Appropriable
  • (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use

    Appropriate
  • (a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly
  • (n.) A property
  • (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

    Appropriation
  • (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

    Approval
  • (n.) Approbation

    Approve
  • (v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

    Approximate
  • (a.) Approaching
  • (v. i.) To draw
  • (v. t.) To carry or advance near

    Approximation
  • (n.) A continual approach or coming nearer to a result

    Appulse
  • (n.) A driving or running towards

    Appurtenance
  • (n.) That which belongs to something else

    Apricot
  • (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste

    Apron
  • (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

    Apse
  • (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end

    Apsis
  • (n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum

    Apt
  • (a.) Fit or fitted
  • (v. t.) To fit

    Apteral
  • (a.) Apterous.

    Apterous
  • (a.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole

    Apteryx
  • (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail

    Aptitude
  • (n.) A general fitness or suitableness

    Apus
  • (n.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans.

    Aqua
  • (n.) Water

    Aqueduct
  • (n.) A canal or passage

    Aqueous
  • (a.) Made from, or by means of, water.

    Aquila
  • (n.) A genus of eagles.

    Aquiline
  • (a.) Belonging to or like an eagle.

    Ar
  • (conj.) Ere

    Ara
  • (n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

    Arab
  • (n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.

    Arachnid
  • (n.) An arachnidan.

    Arachnoid
  • (a.) Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb
  • (n.) One of the Arachnoidea.

    Arachnology
  • (n.) The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida.

    Aragonite
  • (n.) A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters

    Aramaic
  • (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia
  • (n.) The Aramaic language.

    Araucaria
  • (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia

    Arbiter
  • (n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control
  • (v. t.) To act as arbiter between.

    Arbitrable
  • (v. t.) Capable of being decided by arbitration

    Arbitrage
  • (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange)

    Arbitral
  • (a.) Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration.

    Arbitrary
  • (a.) Depending on will or discretion

    Arbitrate
  • (v. i.) To act as arbitrator or judge
  • (v. t.) To decide, or determine generally.

    Arbitration
  • (n.) The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties

    Arbitrator
  • (n.) A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences

    Arbor
  • (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade

    Arc
  • (n.) A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch
  • (v. i.) To form a voltaic arc, as an electrical current in a broken or disconnected circuit.

    Arcade
  • (n.) A long, arched building or gallery.

    Arcadia
  • (n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness

    Arcane
  • (a.) Hidden

    Arcanum
  • (n.) A secret

    Arch
  • (a.) Chief
  • (n.) A chief.
  • (v. i.) To form into an arch
  • (v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.

    Arctic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear
  • (n.) A warm waterproof overshoe.

    Arcturus
  • (n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes.

    Ardent
  • (a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire

    Ardor
  • (n.) Bright and effulgent spirits

    Arduous
  • (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities

    Are
  • (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length

    Area
  • (n.) An extent of surface

    Areca
  • (n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime

    Arena
  • (n.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

    Areola
  • (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens

    Argal
  • (adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore.

    Argent
  • (a.) Made of silver
  • (n.) Silver, or money.

    Argil
  • (n.) Clay, or potter's earth

    Argive
  • (a.) Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece.
  • (n.) A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

    Argo
  • (n.) A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela

    Arguable
  • (a.) Capable of being argued

    Argue
  • (v. i.) To contend in argument
  • (v. t.) To blame

    Argufy
  • (v. t. & i.) To argue pertinaciously.

    Argument
  • (n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs
  • (v. i.) To make an argument

    Argus
  • (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io

    Aria
  • (n.) An air or song

    Arid
  • (a.) Exhausted of moisture

    Ariel
  • (n.) In the Cabala, a water spirit

    Aries
  • (n.) A battering-ram.

    Aright
  • (adv.) Rightly

    Arioso
  • (adv. & a.) In the smooth and melodious style of an air

    Arise
  • (n.) Rising.
  • (v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position

    Arista
  • (n.) An awn.

    Aristocracy
  • (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order

    Aristocrat
  • (n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community

    Aristotelian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).
  • (n.) A follower of Aristotle

    Arithmetic
  • (n.) A book containing the principles of this science.

    Ark
  • (n.) A chest, or coffer.

    Arkose
  • (n.) A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments

    Arm
  • (n.) A branch of a tree.
  • (v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance

    Armada
  • (v. t.) A fleet of armed ships

    Armadillo
  • (n.) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

    Armament
  • (n.) A body of forces equipped for war

    Armature
  • (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force

    Armchair
  • (n.) A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.

    Armed
  • (a.) Furnished with weapons of offense or defense

    Armenian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Armenia.
  • (n.) An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic

    Armful
  • (n.) As much as the arm can hold.

    Armhole
  • (n.) A hole for the arm in a garment.

    Armiger
  • (n.) Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services

    Arminian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines.
  • (n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).

    Armistice
  • (n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention

    Armlet
  • (n.) An arm ring

    Armor
  • (n.) Defensive arms for the body

    Armpit
  • (n.) The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder

    Army
  • (n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause

    Arnica
  • (n.) A genus of plants

    Aroid
  • (n.) Any plant of the Arum family (Araceae).

    Aromatic
  • (n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices

    Aromatize
  • (v. t.) To impregnate with aroma

    Arose
  • (imp.) of Arise

    Around
  • (adv.) In a circle
  • (prep.) From one part to another of

    Arousal
  • (n.) The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

    Arouse
  • (v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest

    Arpeggio
  • (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously

    Arraign
  • (n.) Arraignment
  • (v. t.) To appeal to

    Arrange
  • (v. t.) To adjust or settle

    Arrant
  • (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad

    Arras
  • (n.) Tapestry
  • (v. t.) To furnish with an arras.

    Array
  • (n.) An imposing series of things.

    Arrearage
  • (n.) That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part

    Arrest
  • (v. i.) To tarry
  • (v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral.

    Arris
  • (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved

    Arrival
  • (n.) An approach.

    Arrive
  • (n.) Arrival.
  • (v. i.) To come
  • (v. t.) To bring to shore.

    Arrogance
  • (n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner

    Arrogant
  • (a.) Containing arrogance

    Arrogate
  • (v. t.) To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously

    Arrondissement
  • (n.) A subdivision of a department.

    Arrow
  • (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow

    Arroyo
  • (n.) A water course

    Arsenal
  • (n.) A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service

    Arsenate
  • (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.

    Arsenic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic
  • (n.) Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride

    Arsenide
  • (n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical

    Arsenious
  • (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, arsenic

    Arsenopyrite
  • (n.) A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron

    Arsine
  • (n.) A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic

    Arsis
  • (n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

    Arson
  • (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony

    Art
  • (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions

    Artemisia
  • (n.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A

    Arterial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad

    Arteriography
  • (n.) A systematic description of the arteries.

    Arteriole
  • (n.) A small artery.

    Arteriosclerosis
  • (n.) Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age

    Arteritis
  • (n.) Inflammation of an artery or arteries.

    Artery
  • (n.) Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication

    Artful
  • (a.) Artificial

    Arthritis
  • (n.) Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

    Arthrography
  • (n.) The description of joints.

    Arthropathy
  • (n.) Any disease of the joints.

    Arthropod
  • (n.) One of the Arthropoda.

    Arthrosis
  • (n.) Articulation.

    Article
  • (n.) A distinct part.
  • (v. i.) To agree by articles

    Articulate
  • (a.) Distinctly uttered
  • (n.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
  • (v. i.) To join or be connected by articulation.
  • (v. t.) To draw up or write in separate articles

    Articulation
  • (n.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

    Articulator
  • (n.) One who, or that which, articulates

    Artifact
  • (n.) A product of human workmanship

    Artifice
  • (n.) A handicraft

    Artificial
  • (a.) Artful

    Artillery
  • (n.) Cannon

    Artisan
  • (n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade

    Artist
  • (n.) An artful person

    Artless
  • (a.) Contrived without skill or art

    Arum
  • (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe

    Aruspex
  • (n.) 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

    Aryan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans
  • (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races

    Arytenoid
  • (a.) Ladle-shaped

    As
  • (adv. & conj.) As if
  • (n.) An ace.

    Asa
  • (n.) An ancient name of a gum.

    Asbestos
  • (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color

    Ascariasis
  • (n.) A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal

    Ascarid
  • (n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals

    Ascend
  • (v. i.) To move upward
  • (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along

    Ascension
  • (n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation

    Ascertain
  • (v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment

    Ascetic
  • (a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions
  • (n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification

    Ascidian
  • (n.) One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

    Ascidium
  • (n.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata

    Ascites
  • (n.) A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen

    Ascocarp
  • (n.) In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification

    Ascospore
  • (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

    Ascribe
  • (v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance

    Ascription
  • (n.) The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong

    Ascus
  • (n.) A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi

    Asepsis
  • (n.) State of being aseptic

    Aseptic
  • (a.) Not liable to putrefaction
  • (n.) An aseptic substance.

    Asexual
  • (a.) Having no distinct sex

    Ash
  • (n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F
  • (v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

    Ashamed
  • (a.) Affected by shame

    Ashen
  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes
  • (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

    Ashore
  • (adv.) On shore or on land

    Ashtoreth
  • (n.) The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity

    Ashy
  • (a.) Ash-colored

    Asian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia
  • (n.) An Asiatic.

    Asiatic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.

    Aside
  • (adv.) On, or to, one side
  • (n.) Something spoken aside


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