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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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