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Adrenal(a.) Suprarenal.
Adrift(adv. & a.) Floating at random
Adroit(a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties
Adscititious(a.) Supplemental
Adularia(n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections
Adulate(v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Adulation(n.) Servile flattery
Adulatory(a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment
Adult(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength
Adumbrate(v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of
Advance(a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time
(v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan
(v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect
(v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress
Advantage(n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end
(v. t.) To give an advantage to
Advent(n.) Coming
Adverb(n.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it
Adversary(a.) Having an opposing party
(n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them
Adversative(a.) Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis
(n.) An adversative word.
Adverse(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction
(v. t.) To oppose
Adversity(n.) Opposition
Advert(v. i.) To turn the mind or attention
Advice(n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed
Advisable(a.) Proper to be advised or to be done
Advise(v. t.) To consider
Advisory(a.) Having power to advise
Advocacy(n.) The act of pleading for or supporting
Advocate(n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.
(v. i.) To act as advocate.
Adytum(n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber
Adz(v. t.) To cut with an adz.
Aecidium(n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants
Aedile(n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc
Aegis(n.) A shield or protective armor
Aeolian(a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants
Aeolic(a.) Aeolian, 1
Aeolus(n.) The god of the winds.
Aeon(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time
Aerate(v. t.) To combine or charge with gas
Aerenchyma(n.) A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces
Aerial(a.) Consisting of air
Aerie(n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk
Aeriform(a.) Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid
Aero(n.) An aeroplane, airship, or the like.
Aery(a.) Aerial
(n.) An aerie.
Aesculapian(a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art
Aesthesia(n.) Perception by the senses
Aesthete(n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics.
Aestheticism(n.) The doctrine of aesthetics
Aestival(a.) Of or belonging to the summer
Aestivate(v. i.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor.
Aestivation(n.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.
Aetiology(n.) The assignment of a cause.
Afar(adv.) At, to, or from a great distance
Afeard(p. a.) Afraid.
Affable(a.) Easy to be spoken to or addressed
Affair(n.) Action
Affect(n.) Affection
(v. t.) To act upon
Afferent(a.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ
Affettuoso(adv.) With feeling.
Affiance(n.) Plighted faith
(v. t.) To assure by promise.
Affidavit(n.) A sworn statement in writing
Affiliate(v. i.) To connect or associate one's self
(v. t.) To adopt
Affine(v. t.) To refine.
Affinity(n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin
Affirm(v. i.) To declare or assert positively.
(v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review
Affix(n.) That which is affixed
(v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with
Afflatus(n.) A breath or blast of wind.
Afflict(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.
(v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress
Affluence(n.) A flowing to or towards
Affluent(a.) Abundant
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake
Afflux(n.) A flowing towards
Afford(v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result
Afforest(v. t.) To convert into a forest
Affray(v. t.) Alarm
Affricate(n.) A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time
Affright(n.) Sudden and great fear
(p. a.) Affrighted.
(v. t.) To impress with sudden fear
Affront(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.
(v. t.) To face in defiance
Affusion(n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
Afghan(a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.
(n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.
Afield(adv.) Out of the way
Afire(adv. & a.) On fire.
Aflame(adv. & a.) Inflames
Afloat(adv. & a.) Borne on the water
Aflutter(adv. & a.) In a flutter
Afore(adv.) Before.
(prep.) Before (in all its senses).
Afoul(adv. & a.) In collision
Afraid(p. a.) Impressed with fear or apprehension
Afreet(n.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.
Afresh(adv.) Anew
African(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.
(n.) A native of Africa
Aft(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel
After(a.) Hinder
(adv.) Subsequently in time or place
(prep.) According to
Aftmost(a.) Nearest the stern.
Again(adv.) Another time
Agama(n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances
Agamic(a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants
Agamogenesis(n.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
Agamous(a.) cryptogamous.
Agape(adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
(n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion
Agaric(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example
Agate(adv.) On the way
(n.) A diminutive person
Agave(n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A
Age(n.) A century
(v. i.) To grow aged
(v. t.) To cause to grow old
Aged(a.) Belonging to old age.
Ageless(a.) Without old age limits of duration
Agency(n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power
Agendum(n.) A church service
Agenesis(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Agent(a.) Acting
(n.) An active power or cause
Ageratum(n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters
Agglomerate(n.) A collection or mass.
(v. i.) To collect in a mass.
(v. t.) To wind or collect into a ball
Agglomeration(n.) State of being collected in a mass
Agglutinate(a.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning
(v. t.) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance
Agglutination(n.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning
Agglutinative(a.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.
Aggrade(v. t.) To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material
Aggrandize(v. i.) To increase or become great.
(v. t.) To make appear great or greater
Aggravate(v. t.) To exasperate
Aggravation(n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity
Aggregate(a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy
(n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars
(v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
Aggregation(n.) The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated
Aggress(n.) Aggression.
(v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense
(v. t.) To set upon
Aggrieve(v. i.) To grieve
(v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to
Agha(n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.
Agile(a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs
Agility(n.) Activity
Agitate(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness
Agitation(n.) A stirring up or arousing
Agitato(a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
Agleam(adv. & a.) Gleaming
Agley(adv.) Aside
Aglimmer(adv. & a.) In a glimmering state.
Aglitter(adv. & a.) Glittering
Aglow(adv. & a.) In a glow
Agnail(n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
Agnate(a.) Allied
(n.) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Agnomen(n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name
Agnostic(a.) Professing ignorance
(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena
Ago(a. & adv.) Past
Agog(a. & adv.) In eager desire
Agon(n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.
Agora(n.) An assembly
Agraphia(n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia
Agrarian(a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure
(n.) An agrarian law.
Agree(adv.) In good part
(v. i.) To be conformable
(v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning
Agricultural(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture
Agriculture(n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock
Agrimony(n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.
Agronomics(n.) The science of the distribution and management of land.
Agronomy(n.) The management of land
Aground(adv. & a.) On the ground
Aguardiente(n.) A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
Ague(n.) A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
(v. t.) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Ah(interj.) An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc
Aha(interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise
(n.) A sunk fence.
Ahead(adv.) Headlong
Ahem(interj.) An exclamation to call one's attention
Ahold(adv.) Near the wind
Ahoy(interj.) A term used in hailing
Ahriman(n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians
Ai(n.) The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America.
Aid(v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation
Aigrette(n.) A feathery crown of seed
Aiguille(n.) A needle-shaped peak.
Ail(n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.
(v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort
(v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental
Aileron(n.) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.
Ailment(n.) Indisposition
Aim(v. i.) Conjecture
(v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object
Aimless(a.) Without aim or purpose
Air(n.) Air in motion
Aircraft(n. sing. & pl.) Any device, as a balloon, aeroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air
Airily(adv.) In an airy manner
Airiness(n.) Lightness of spirits
Airing(n.) An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.
Airless(a.) Not open to a free current of air
Airman(n.) A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft
Airy(a.) Consisting of air
Aisle(n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall
Aitch(n.) The letter h or H.
Ajar(adv.) In a state of discord
Akimbo(a.) With a crook or bend
Akin(a.) Allied by nature
Al(a.) All.
(conj.) Although
Ala(n.) A winglike organ, or part.
Alabaster(n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.
Alack(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow.
Alacrity(n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude
Alamode(adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode.
(n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.
Alanine(n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.
Alar(a.) Axillary
Alas(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil
Alate(adv.) Lately
Alb(n.) A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person
Albanian(a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.
(n.) A native of Albania.
Albatross(n.) A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land
Albedo(n.) Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface
Albeit(conj.) Even though
Albertite(n.) A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick
Albescent(a.) Becoming white or whitish
Albinism(n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism
Albino(n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state
Albion(n.) An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.
Albite(n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda
Album(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc
Alcaic(a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
(n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls
Alcalde(n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.
Alcayde(n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.
Alcazar(n.) A fortress
Alchemist(n.) One who practices alchemy.
Alchemize(v. t.) To change by alchemy
Alchemy(n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils
Alcohol(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals
Alcoran(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures
Alcove(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
Aldebaran(n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus
Aldehyde(n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation
Alder(n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc
Aldol(n.) A colorless liquid, C4H8O2, obtained by condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO
Ale(n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
Aleatory(a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency
Alee(adv.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind
Alegar(n.) Sour ale
Alehouse(n.) A house where ale is retailed
Alemannic(a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
(n.) The language of the Alemanni.
Alembic(n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still
Alert(a.) Brisk
(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack
Aleurone(n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers
Alevin(n.) Young fish
Alewife(n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring
Alexandrian(a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse.
Alexandrine(a.) Belonging to Alexandria
(n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
Alexia(n.) As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.
Alfalfa(n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa)
Alfilaria(n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Alforja(n.) A saddlebag.
Alfresco(adv. & a.) In the open-air.
Alga(n.) A kind of seaweed
Algebra(n.) A treatise on this science.
Algid(a.) Cold
Algin(n.) A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algae.
Algoid(a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
Algol(n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness
Algonkian(a.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archaean and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities
(n.) The Algonkian period or era, or system or group of systems.
Algonkin(n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America
Algonquian(a.) Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes
(n.) An Algonquian Indian.
Algorithm(n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
Alhambra(n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Alias(adv.) At another time.
(n.) Another name
Alibi(n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed
Alien(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof
(n.) A foreigner
(v. t.) To alienate
Aliform(a.) Wing-shaped
Alight(a.) Lighted
(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).
Align(v. t.) To adjust or form to a line
Alike(a.) Having resemblance or similitude
(adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree
Aliment(n.) An allowance for maintenance.
(v. t.) To nourish
Alimony(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same
Aline(v. t.) To range or place in a line
Aliphatic(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat
Aliquant(a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder
Aliquot(a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder
Alive(a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings
Alizarin(n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene
Alkalescent(a.) Tending to the properties of an alkali
Alkali(n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue
Alkaloid(n.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals
Alkanet(n.) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye
All(a.) Any.
(adv.) Even
(conj.) Although
(n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount
Allah(n.) The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.
Allay(n.) Alleviation
(v. t.) To alleviate
Allegation(n.) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove
Allege(v. t.) To alleviate
Allegiance(n.) Devotion
Allegorical(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory
Allegorize(v. t.) To form or turn into allegory
Allegory(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances
Allegretto(a.) Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro.
(n.) A movement in this time.
Allegro(a.) Brisk, lively.
(n.) An allegro movement
Allelomorph(n.) One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves
Allemande(n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.
Alleviate(v. t.) To extenuate
Alley(n.) A choice taw or marble.
All hail(interj.) All health
Allhallows(n.) All Saints' Day, November 1st.
Allheal(n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.
Alliance(n.) Any union resembling that of families or states
(v. t.) To connect by alliance
Allied(a.) United
Alligator(n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
Allocate(v. t.) To distribute or assign
Allocation(n.) An allotment or apportionment
Allocution(n.) An address
Allogamy(n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species
Allograph(n.) A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto
Allomerism(n.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
Allomorph(n.) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance
Allonym(n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author.
Allopathy(n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated
Allot(v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions
Allow(v. i.) To admit
(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition
Alloy(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Allspice(n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies
Allude(v. i.) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion
(v. t.) To compare allusively
Allure(n.) Allurement.
(v. t.) To attempt to draw
Alluring(a.) That allures
Allusion(n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.
Allusive(a.) Figurative
Alluvial(a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium
(n.) Alluvial soil
Alluvion(n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water.
Alluvium(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas
Ally(v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
(v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
Almagest(n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients
Almanac(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc
Almandine(n.) The common red variety of garnet.
Almighty(a.) Great
Almond(n.) Anything shaped like an almond.
Almoner(n.) One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.
Almost(adv.) Nearly
Alms(n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing
Aloe(n.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants
Aloft(adv.) In the top
(prep.) Above
Aloin(n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
Alone(a.) Hence
(adv.) Solely
Along(adv.) By the length
(prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.
Aloof(adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance
(prep.) Away from
Aloud(adv.) With a loud voice, or great noise
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