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1	a	[.] A is the first letter of the Alphabet in most of the known languages of the earth; in the Ethiopic, however it is the thirteenth, and in the Runic the tenth. It is naturally the first letter, because it represents the first vocal sound naturally formed by the human ...
2	a-posteriori	[.] A-POSTERIORI, [L. posterior, after.] [.] Arguments a posteriori, are drawn from effect, consequences or facts; in opposition to reasoning a priori, or from causes previously known.
3	a-re	[.] A-RE,
4	aam	[.] AAM, n. A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.
5	aaronic	[.] AARON'IC, a. Pertaining to Aaron, the Jewish High Priest, or to the priesthood of which he was the head.
6	ab	[.] AB, In English names, is an abbreviation of Abbey or Abbot. [.] AB, a prefix to words of Latin origin, and a Latin preposition, as in abscond, written in ancient Latin af. It denotes from, separating or departure. [.] [.] AB, The Hebrew name of Father. [.] AB, ...
7	abacist	[.] AB'ACIST, n. One that casts accounts; a calculator.
8	aback	[.] ABACK, adv. [At, on or towards the back. See Back] [.] Towards the back; on the back part; backward. In seamen's language it signifies the situation of the sails, when pressed back against the mast by the wind. [.] Taken aback, is when the sails are carried ...
9	abacot	[.] AB'ACOT, n. The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.
10	abactor	[.] ABAC'TOR, n. [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] [.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.
11	abacus	[.] AB'ACUS, n. [L. anything flat, as a cupboard, a bench, a slate, a table or board for games; Gr. Usually deduced from the Oriental, abak, dust, because the ancients used tables covered with dust for making figures and diagrams.] [.] 1. Among the Romans, a cupboard ...
12	abada	[.] AB'ADA, n. A wild animal of Africa, of the size of a steer, or half grown colt, having two horns on its forehead and a third on the nape of the neck. Its head and tail resemble those of an ox, but it has cloven feet, like the stag.
13	abaddon	[.] ABAD'DON, n. [Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. to be lost, or destroyed, to perish.] [.] 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit. Rev. ix. [.] 2. The bottomless pit.
14	abaft	[.] AB'AFT, adv. or prep. [Sax. eft or aeft, again. Hence efter or aefter, after, subsequent; Sax. aeftan, behind in place; to which word be is prefixed - beaeftan, behind, and this word is corrupted into abaft.] [.] A sea-term signifying in or at the hinder part of a ...
15	abagun	[.] AB'AGUN, n. The name of a fowl in Ethiopia, remarkable for its beauty and for a sort of horn, growing on its head. The word signifies stately Abbot.
16	abaisance	[.] ABAISANCE, [See Obeisance.]
17	abalienation	[.] ABALIENA'TION, n. The transferring of title to property. [See Alienation.]
18	abandon	[.] ABAN'DON, v.t. [Fr. abandonner; Sp. and Port. abandonar; It. abbandonare; said to be from ban, and donner, to give over to the ban or proscription; or from a or ab and bandum, a flag or ensign.] [.] 1. To forsake entirely; as to abandon a hopeless enterprize. [.] Wo ...
19	abandoned	[.] ABAN'DONED, pp. Wholly forsaken or deserted. [.] 2. Given up, as to a vice; hence, extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
20	abandoner	[.] ABAN'DONER, n. One who abandons.
21	abandoning	...
22	abandonment	[.] ABAN'DONMENT, n. [.] 1. A total desertion; a state of being forsaken. [.] 2. In commerce, the relinquishing to underwriters all the property saved from loss by shipwreck, capture or other peril stated in the policy. This abandonment must be made before the insured ...
23	abanga	[.] ABAN'GA, n. The ady; a species of Palmtree. [See Ady.]
24	abannition	[.] ABANNI'TION, n. [Low Lat.] [.] A banishment for one or two years for manslaughter. [Not used.]
25	abaptiston	[.] ABAPTIS'TON, n. The perforating part of the trephine, an instrument used in trepanning.
26	abare	[.] ABA'RE, v.t. [Sax abarian. See Bare.] [.] To make bare; to uncover. [Not in use.]
27	abarticulation	[.] ABARTICULA'TION, n. [See Articulate.] [.] In anatomy, that species of articulation or structure of joints, which admits of manifest or extensive motion; called also diarthrosis and dearticulation
28	abas	[.] ABAS', n. A weight in Persia used in weighing pearls, one eighth less than the European carat.
29	abase	[.] ABA'SE, v.t. [Fr abaisser, from bas, low, or the bottom; W. bais; Latin and Gr. basis; Eng. base; It. Abbassare; Sp. bare, low. See Abash.] [.] 1. The literal sense of abase is to lower or depress, to throw or cast down, as used by Bacon, "to abase the eye." But ...
30	abased	[.] ABA'SED, pp. Reduced to a low state, humbled, degraded. [.] In heraldry, it is used of the wings of eagles, when the tops are turned downwards towards the point of the shield; or when the wings are shut, the natural way of bearing them being spread, with the top ...
31	abasement	[.] ABA'SEMENT, n. The act of humbling or bringing low; also a state of depression, degradation, or humiliation.
32	abash	[.] ABASH', v.t. [Heb. and Ch. bosh, to be confounded, or ashamed.] [.] To make the spirits to fall; to cast down the countenance; to make ashamed; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, error, inferiority, &e. [.] They heard and ...
33	abashed	[.] ABASH'ED, pp. Confused with shame; confounded; put to silence; followed by at.
34	abashing	[.] ABASH'ING, ppr. Putting to shame or confusion.
35	abashment	[.] ABASH'MENT, n. Confusion from shame. [Little used.]
36	abasing	[.] ABA'SING, ppr. Humbling, depressing, bringing low.
37	abassi	[.] ABAS'SI, or ABAS'SIS, n. A silver coin of Persia, of the value of twenty cents, about ten pence sterling.
38	abassis	[.] ABAS'SI, or ABAS'SIS, n. A silver coin of Persia, of the value of twenty cents, about ten pence sterling.
39	abatable	[.] ABA'TABLE, a. That may or can be abated; as an abatable writ or nuisance.
40	abate	[.] ABA'TE, v.t. [Heb. Ch., to beat. The Saxon has the participle gebatod, abated. The prefix is sunk to a in abate, and lost in beat. See Class Bd. No. 23, 33.] [.] 1. To beat down; to pull down; to destroy in any manner; as to abate a nuisance. [.] 2. To lessen; ...
41	abated	[.] ABA'TED, pp. Lessened; decreased; destroyed; mitigated; defeated; remitted; overthrown.
42	abatement	[.] ABA'TEMENT, n. [.] 1. The act of abating; the state of being abated. [.] 2. A reduction, removing, or pulling down as of a nuisance. [.] 3. Diminution, decrease, or mitigation, as of grief or pain. [.] 4. Deduction, sum withdraw, as from an account. [.] 5. ...
43	abater	[.] ABA'TER, n. The person or thing that abates.
44	abating	[.] ABA'TING, ppr. Pulling down, diminishing, defeating, remitting.
45	abatis	[.] AB'ATIS, [.] Rubbish. In fortification, piles of trees, or branches of trees sharpened, and laid with the points outward, in front of ramparts, to prevent assailants from mounting the walls.
46	abator	[.] ABA'TOR, n. A person who enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
47	abattis	[.] AB'ATTIS, n. [from beating or pulling down.]
48	abature	[.] AB'ATURE, n. [from abate.] Grass beaten or trampled down by a stag in passing.
49	abb	[.] ABB, n. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence abb-wool is wool for the abb.
50	abba	[.] AB'BA, n. In the Chaldee and Syriac, a father, and figuratively a superior. appen. [.] In the Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopic churches, it is a title given to the Bishops, and the Bishops bestow the title, by way of distinction, on the Bishop of Alexandria. Hence the title ...
51	abbacy	[.] AB'BACY, n. [from abba, Low Lat, abbatia.] The dignity, rights and privileges of an abbot. It comprehends the government and revenues.
52	abbatial	[.] ABBA'TIAL, a.
53	abbatical	[.] ABBAT'ICAL, a. Belonging to an abbey.
54	abbe	[.] AB'BE, n. Ab'by, [from abba.] [.] In a monastic sense, the same as an abbot; but more generally, a title, in Catholic countries, without any determinate rang, office or rights. The abbes are numerous, and generally have some literary attainments; they dress as academics ...
55	abbess	[.] AB'BESS, n. [from abba.] [.] A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the Monks. [See Abbey.]
56	abbey	[.] AB'BEY, n. plu. abbeys, [from abba.] [.] A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion. The males are called monks, and governed by an abbot; the females are called nuns, and governed by an abbess. These institutions ...
57	abbey-lubber	[.] AB'BEY-LUBBER, n. A name given to monks, in contempt for their idleness.
58	abbot	[.] AB'BOT, n. [formerly abbat, from abba, latinized abbas, or from Heb. plural.] [.] The superior or governor of an abbey or monastery. Originally monasteries were founded in retired places, and the religious had no concern with secular affairs, being entirely subject ...
59	abbotship	[.] AB'BOTSHIP, n. The state of an abbot.
60	abbreuvoir	[.] ABBREUVOIR, n. [Fr. from abreuver, to water.] [.] Among masons, the joint between stones in a wall, to be filled with mortar. [I know not whether it is now used.]
61	abbreviate	[.] ABBRE'VIATE, v.t. [from Latin abbrevio, brevio, from brevis, short] [.] 1. To shorten; to make shorter by contracting the parts. [In this sense, not much used, nor often applied to material substances.] [.] 2. To shorten; to abridge by the omission or defalcation ...
62	abbreviated	[.] ABBRE'VIATED, pp. [.] 1. Shortened; reduced in length; abridged. [.] 2. In botany an abbreviated perianth is shorter than the rube of the corol.
63	abbreviating	[.] ABBRE'VIATING, ppr. Shortening; contracting in length or into a smaller compass.
64	abbreviation	[.] ABBREVIA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of shortening or contracting. [.] 2. A letter or a few letters used for a word; as Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. [.] 3. The reduction of fractions to the lowest terms.
65	abbreviator	[.] ABBRE'VIATOR, n. One who abridges or reduces to a smaller compass.
66	abbreviators	[.] ABBRE'VIATORS, a college of seventy-two persons in the chancery of Rome, whose duty is to draw up the Pope's briefs, and reduce petitions, when granted, to a due form for bulls.
67	abbreviatory	[.] ABBRE'VIATORY, n. Shortening, contracting.
68	abbreviature	[.] ABBRE'VIATURE, n. A letter or character for shortening; an abridgment, a compend.
69	abdals	[.] AB'DALS, n. The name of certain fanatics in Persia, who, in excess of zeal, sometimes run into the streets, and attempt to kill all they meet who are of a different religion; and if they are slain for their madness, they think it meritorious to die, and by the vulgar ...
70	abderite	[.] AB'DERITE, n. An inhabitant of Abdera, a maritime town in Thrace. Democritus is so called, from being a native of the place. As he was given to laughter, foolish or incessant laughter, is call abderian.
71	abdicant	[.] AB'DICANT, a. [See Abdicate.] Abdicating; renouncing.
72	abdicate	[.] AB'DICATE, v.t. [L. abdica; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust.] [.] 1. In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon. [.] 2. To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to ...
73	abdicated	[.] AB'DICATED, pp. Renounced; relinquished without a formal resignation; abandoned.
74	abdicating	[.] AB'DICATING, ppr. Relinquishing without a formal resignation; abandoning.
75	abdication	[.] ABDICA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of abdicating; the abandoning of an office or trust, without a formal surrender, or before the usual or stated time of expiration. [.] 2. A casting off; rejection.
76	abdicative	[.] AB'DICATIVE, a. Causing or implying abdication. [Little used.]
77	abditive	[.] AB'DITIVE, a. [L. abdo, to hide; ab and do.] Having the power or quality of hiding. [Little used.]
78	abditory	[.] AB'DITORY, n. A place for secreting or preserving goods.
79	abdomen	[.] AB'DOMEN, or ABDO'MEN, n. [L. perhaps abdo and omentum.] [.] 1. The lower belly or that part of the body which lies between the thorax and the bottom of the pelvis. It is lined with a membrane called peritoneum, and contains the stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, ...
80	abdominal	[.] ABDOM'INAL, a. Pertaining to the lower belly. [.] ABDOM'INAL, n. plu. abdominals. In ichthyology the abdominals are a class of fish whose ventral fins are placed behind the pectoral, and which belong to the division of bony fish. The class contains nine genera ...
81	abdominous	[.] ABDOM'INOUS, a. Pertaining to the abdomen; having a large belly.
82	abduce	[.] ABDU'CE, v.t. [L. adduco, to lead away, of ab and duco, to lead. See Duke.] [.] To draw from; to withdraw, or draw to a different part; used chiefly in anatomy.
83	abducent	[.] ABDU'CENT, a. Drawing from, pulling back; used of those muscles which pull back certain parts of the body, for separating, opening, or bending them. The abducent muscles, called abductors, are opposed to the adducent muscles or adductors.
84	abduction	[.] ABDUC'TION, n. [.] 1. In a general sense, the act of drawing apart, or carrying away. [.] 2. In surgery, a species of fracture, in which the broken parts recede from each other. [.] 3. In logic, a kind of argumentation, called by the Greeks apagoge, in which ...
85	abductor	[.] ABDUC'TOR, n. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to withdraw, or pull back a certain part of the body; as the abductor oculi, which pulls the eye outwards.
86	abear	[.] ABEA'R, v.t. abare, To bear; to behave. obs.
87	abearance	[.] ABEA'RANCE, n. [from abear, now disused from bear, to carry.] Behavior, demeanor. [Little used.]
88	abecedarian	[.] ABECEDA'RIAN, n. [a word formed from the first four letters of the alphabet.] One who teaches the letters of the alphabet, or a learner of the letters.
89	abecedary	[.] ABECE'DARY, a. Pertaining to, or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
90	abed	[.] ABED', adv. [See Bed.] On or in bed.
91	abel-tree	[.] ABE'LE or ABEL-TREE, n. An obsolete name of the while poplar. [See Poplar.]
92	abele	[.] ABE'LE or ABEL-TREE, n. An obsolete name of the while poplar. [See Poplar.]
93	abelians
94	abelites
95	abelmosk	[.] A'BELMOSK, n. A trivial name of a species of hibiscus, or Syrian mallow. The plant rises on a herbacceous stalk, three or four feet, sending out two or three side branches. The seeds have a musky odor, for which reason the Arabians mix them with coffee.
96	abelonians
97	aberrance	[.] ABER'RANCE, [L. aberrans, aberro, to wander from; of ab and ABER'RANCY, erro, to wander.] [.] A wandering or deviating from the right way, but rarely used in a literal sense. In a figurative sense, a deviation from truth, error, mistake; and in morals, a fault, ...
98	aberrant	[.] ABER'RANT, a. Wandering, straying from the right way. [Rarely used.]
99	aberration	[.] ABERRA'TION, n. [L. aberratio.] [.] 1. The act of wandering from the right way; deviation from truth or moral rectitude; deviation from a strait line. [.] 2. In astronomy, a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by the progressive motion of light ...
100	aberring	[.] ABER'RING, part, a. Wandering; going astray.
101	aberruncate	[.] ABERRUN'CATE, v.t. [L. averrunco.] To pull up by the roots; to extirpate utterly. [Not used.]
102	abet	[.] ABET' v.t. [Sax. betan, gebatan; properly to push forward, to advance; hence to amend, to revive, to restore, to make better; and applied to fire, to increase the flame, to excite, to promote. Hence to aid by encouraging or instigating. Hence in Saxon, "Na bete nan ...
103	abetment	[.] ABET'MENT, n. The act of abetting.
104	abetted	[.] ABETTED, pp. Incited, aided, encouraged to a crime.
105	abetting	[.] ABETTING, ppr. Counselling, aiding or encouraging to a crime.
106	abettor	[.] ABETTOR, n. One who abets, or incites, aids or encourages another to commit a crime. In treason, there are no abettors; all persons concerned being principals.
107	abevacuation	[.] ABEVACUA'TION, n. [ab and evacuation.] [.] In medicine, a partial evacuation of morbid humors of the body, either by nature or art.
108	abeyance	[.] ABEY'ANCE, n. pron. abayance. [Norm. abbaiaunce, or abaizance, in expectation; boyance, expectation. Qu. Fr. bayer, to gape, to look a long time with the mouth open; to stand looking in a silly manner. [See Bay] [.] In expectation or contemplation of law. The fee ...
109	abhor	[.] ABHOR', v.t. [L abhorreo, of ab and horreo, to set up bristles, shiver or shake; to look terrible.] [.] 1. To hate extremely, or with contempt; to lothe, detest or abominate. [.] 2. To despise or neglect. Ps. xxii. 24. Amos vi. 8. [.] 3. To cast off or reject. ...
110	abhorred	[.] ABHOR'RED, pp. Hated extremely, detested.
111	abhorrence	[.] ABHOR'RENCE, n. Extreme hatred, detestation, great aversion.
112	abhorrency	[.] ABHOR'RENCY,
113	abhorrent	[.] ABHOR'RENT, a. [.] 1. Hating, detesting, struck with abhorrence. [.] 2. Contrary, odious, inconsistent with, expressive of extreme opposition, as, "Slander is abhorrent to all ideas of justice." In this sense, it should be always followed by to - abhorrent ...
114	abhorrently	[.] ABHOR'RENTLY, adv. With abhorrence.
115	abhorrer	[.] ABHOR'RER, n. One who abhors.
116	abhorring	[.] ABHOR'RING, ppr. Having great aversion, detesting. As a noun, it is used in Isaiah lxvi, for the object of hatred - "An abhorring to all flesh."
117	abib	[.] A'BIB, n. [Heb. swelling, protuberant. To produce the first or early fruit; a full grown ear of corn.] [.] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, called also Nisan. It begins at the spring equinox, and answers to the latter part of March and beginning ...
118	abide	[.] ABI'DE, v. i. pert. and part. abode. [.] abada, to be, or exist, to continue; W. bod, to be; to dwell, rest, continue, stand firm, or be stationary for anytime indefinitely. Class Bd. No 7.] [.] 1. To rest, or dwell. Gen. xxix 19. [.] 2. To tarry or stay for a ...
119	abider	[.] ABI'DER, n. One who dwells or continues.
120	abiding	[.] ABI'DING, ppr. Dwelling; remaining; continuing; enduring; awaiting. [.] ABI'DING, n. Continuance; fixed state; residence; an enduring.
121	abidingly	[.] ABI'DINGLY, adv. In a manner to continue; permanently.
122	ability	[.] ABIL'ITY, n. [L. habilitas, ableness, fitness, from habeo, to have or hold.] [.] 1. Physical power, whether bodily or mental; natural or acquired; force of understanding; skill in arts or science. Ability is active power, or power to perform; as opposed to capacity, ...
123	abintestate	[.] ABINTEST'ATE, a. [L. ab and intestatus - dying without a will, from in and tester, to bear witness; W. tyst; Arm. test, witness. See Test and Testify.] [.] In the civil law, inheriting the estate of one dying without a will.
124	abject	[.] ABJECT', v.t. To throw away; to cast out. Obs.
125	abjectedness	[.] ABJECT'EDNESS, n. A very low or despicable condition. [Little used.]
126	abjection	[.] ABJEC'TION, n. A state of being cast away, hence a low state; meanness of spirit; baseness.
127	abjectly	[.] AB'JECTLY, adv. In a contemptible manner; meanly; servilely.
128	abjectness	[.] AB'JECTNESS, n. the state of being abject; meanness; servility.
129	abjuration	[.] ABJURA'TION, n. [See Abjure.] [.] 1. The act of abjuring; a renunciation upon oath; as "an abjuration of the realm," by which a person swears to leave the country, and never to return. It is used also for the oath of renunciation. Formerly in England, felons, ...
130	abjure	[.] ABJU'RE, v.t. [L. abjuro, to deny upon oath, from ab and juro, to swear.] [.] 1. To renounce upon oath; to abandon; as to abjure allegiance to a prince. [.] 2. To renounce or reject with solemnity; to reject; as to abjure errors; abjure reason. [.] 3. To recant ...
131	abjured	[.] ABJU'RED, pp. Renounced upon oath; solemnly recanted.
132	abjurer	[.] ABJU'RER, n. One who abjures.
133	abjuring	[.] ABJU'RING, ppr. Renouncing upon oath; disclaiming with solemnity.
134	abjurratory	[.] ABJUR'RATORY, a. Containing abjuration
135	ablactate	[.] ABLAC'TATE, v.t. [L. ablacto; from ab and lac, milk.] to wean from the breast. [Little used.]
136	ablactation	[.] ABLACTA'TION, n. [L. ab and lae, milk. Lacto, to suckle.] [.] 1. In medical authors, the weaning of a child from the breast. [.] 2. Among ancient gardeners, a method of grafting in which the cion was not separated from the parent stock, till it was firmly united ...
137	ablaqueation	[.] ABLAQUEA'TION, [L. ablaqueatio, from ab and laquear, a roof or covering.] [.] A laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water - a practice among gardeners.
138	ablation	[.] ABLA'TION, n. [L. ab and latio, a carrying.] [.] A carrying away. In medicine, the taking from the body whatever is hurtful; evacuations in general. In chimistry, the removal of whatever is finished or no longer necessary.
139	ablative	[.] AB'LATIVE, a. [L.ablativus; L. ablatus, from aufero, to carry away, of ab and fero.] [.] A word applied to the sixth case of nouns in the Latin language, in which case are used words when the actions of carrying away, or taking from, are signified. [.] Ablative ...
140	able	[.] ABLE, a. a'bl. [L. habitis] [.] 1. Having physical power sufficient; having competent power or strength, bodily or mental; as a man able to perform military service - a child is not able to reason on abstract subjects. [.] 2. Having strong or unusual powers of ...
141	able-bodied	[.] A'BLE-BODIED, a. Having a sound strong body, or a body of competent strength for service. In marine language, it denotes skill in seamanship. [.]
142	ablen	[.] AB'LEN, or AB'LET, n. A small fresh water fish, the bleak.
143	ableness	[.] A'BLENESS, n. Ability of body or mind; force; vigor; capability.
144	ablepsy	[.] AB'LEPSY, n. Want of sight; blindness.
145	abler	[.] A'BLER, and A'BLEST, Comp. and superl. of able.
146	ablest	[.] A'BLER, and A'BLEST, Comp. and superl. of able.
147	ablet	[.] AB'LEN, or AB'LET, n. A small fresh water fish, the bleak.
148	ablocate	[.] AB'LOCATE, v.t. [L. abloco, ab and loco, to let our.] To let out; to lease.
149	ablocation	[.] ABLOCA'TION, n. A letter to hire.
150	ablude	[.] ABLU'DE, v.t. [L. abludo, ab and ludo, to play.] [.] To be unlike; to differ. [Not used.]
151	abluent	...
152	ablution	[.] ABLU'TION, n. [L. ablutio, from ab and luo or lavo to wash.] [.] 1. In a general sense, the act of washing; a cleansing or purification by water. [.] 2. Appropriately, the washing of the body as a preparation for religious duties, enjoined by Moses and still ...
153	ably	[.] A'BLY, adv. In an able manner; with great ability.
154	abnegate	[.] AB'NEGATE, v.t. To deny. [Not used.]
155	abnegation	[.] ABNEGA'TION, n. [L. abnego, to deny, from ab and nego; Eng. nay; L. nee, not.] A denial; a renunciation; self-denial.
156	abnegator	[.] AB'NEGATOR, n. One who denies, renounces, or opposes any thing.
157	abnodation	[.] ABNODA'TION, n. [L. abnodo; ab and nodus, a knot.] The act of cutting away the knots of trees.
158	abnormity	[.] ABNORM'ITY, n. [L. abnormis, irregular; ab and norma, a rule.] Irregularity; deformity. [Little used.]
159	abnormous	[.] ABNORM'OUS, a. [L. abnormis, supra.] Irregular; deformed. [Little used.]
160	aboard	[.] ABOARD, adv. [a and board. See Board.] Within a ship, vessel, or boat. [.] To go aboard, to enter a ship, to embark. [.] To fall aboard, to strike a ship's side. [.] Aboard main tack, an order to draw a corner of the main-sail down to the chess-tree.
161	abodance	[.] ABO'DANCE, n. [from bode.] An omen. [Not used.]
162	abode	[.] ABO'DE, pret. of abide [.] ABO'DE, n. [See Abide.] [.] 1. Stay; continuance in a place; residence for a longer or shorter time. [.] 2. A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation. [.] 3. To make abode, to dwell or reside. [.] ABO'DE, v.t. ...
163	abodement	[.] ABO'DEMENT, n. [from body.] A secret anticipation of something future.
164	aboding	[.] ABO'DING, n. Presentiment; prognostication.
165	abolish	[.] ABOL'ISH, v.t. [L. abolco; from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.] [.] 1. To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions - as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual. [.] 2. ...
166	abolishable	[.] ABOL'ISHABLE, a. That may be annulled, abrogated, or destroyed, as a law, rite, custom, &c.
167	abolished	[.] ABOL'ISHED, pp. annulled; repealed; abrogated, or destroyed.
168	abolisher	[.] ABOL'ISHER, n. One who abolishes.
169	abolishing	[.] ABOL'ISHING, ppr. Making void; annulling; destroying.
170	abolishment	[.] ABOL'ISHMENT, n. The act of annulling; abrogation; destruction.
171	abolition	[.] ABOLI'TION, n. abolishun. The act of abolishing; or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, rites, customs, debts, &c. [.] The application of this word to persons and things, is now ...
172	abominable	[.] ABOM'INABLE, a. [See Abominate.] [.] 1. Very hateful; detestable; lothesome. [.] 2. This word is applicable to whatever is odious to the mind or offensive to the senses. [.] 3. Unclean. Levit. vli.
173	abominableness	[.] ABOM'INABLENESS, n. The quality or state of being very odious; hatefulness.
174	abominably	[.] ABOM'INABLY, adv. [.] 1. Very odiously; detestably; sinfully. 1Kings xxi. [.] 2. In vulgar language, extremely, excessively.
175	abominate	[.] ABOM'INATE, v.t. [L. abomino, supposed to be formed by ab and omen; to deprecate as ominous; may the Gods avert the evil.] [.] To hate extremely; to abhor; to detest
176	abominated	[.] ABOM'INATED, pp. Hated utterly, detested; abhorred.
177	abominating	[.] ABOM'INATING, ppr. Abhorring; hating extremely.
178	abomination	[.] ABOMINA'TION, n. [.] 1. Extreme hatred; detestation. [.] 2. The object of detestation, a common signification in scripture. [.] The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Prov.xv. [.] 3. Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil ...
179	abord	[.] ABO'RD, n. [Fr. See Border.] Literally, arrival, but used for first appearance, manner of accosting, or address, but not an English word. [.] ABO'RD, v.t. To accost. [Not in use.]
180	aborea	[.] ABO'REA, n. A species of duck, called by Edwards, the black-bellied whistling duck. This fowl is of a reddish brown color, with a sort of crest on its head; the belly is spotted with black and white. It belongs to the genus, anas.
181	aboriginal	[.] ABORIG'INAL, a. [L. ab and origo, origin. See Origin.] [.] First; original; primitive; aboriginal people are the first inhabitants of a country. [.] Aboriginal tribes of America. [.] ABORIG'INAL, a. an original, or primitive inhabitant. The first settlers in ...
182	aborinines	[.] ABORIN'INES, n. plur. Aboriginals - but not an English word. [.] It may be well to let it pass into disuse. [See Aboriginal.]
183	aborsement	[.] ABORSEMENT, n. abors'ment. [See Abort.] [.] Abortion. [Not in use.]
184	abort	[.] ABORT', v.i. [L. aborto; ab and ortus, orior.] [.] To miscarry in birth. [Not in use.] [.] ABORT', n. an abortion. [Not in use.]
185	abortion	[.] ABOR'TION, n. [L. abortio, a miscarriage; usually deduced from ab and orior.] [.] 1. The act of miscarrying, or producing young before the natural time, or before the fetus is perfectly formed. [.] 2. In a figurative sense, any fruit or produce that does not ...
186	abortive	[.] ABOR'TIVE, a. [.] 1. Brought forth in an immature state; failing, or coming to naught, before it is complete. [.] 2. Failing in its effect; miscarrying; producing nothing; as an abortive scheme. [.] 3. Rendering abortive; as abortive gulf, in Milton, but ...
187	abortively	[.] ABOR'TIVELY, adv. Immaturely; in an untimely manner.
188	abortiveness	[.] ABOR'TIVENESS, n. The state of being abortive; a failing in the progress to perfection or maturity; a failure of producing the intended effect.
189	abortment	[.] ABORT'MENT, n. An untimely birth.
190	abound	[.] ABOUND', v. i. [L. abundo. If this word is from L. unda, a wave, the latter has probably lost its first consonant. Abound may naturally be deduced from the Celtic. L. fons, a fountain.] [.] 1. To have or possess in great quantity; to be copiously supplied; followed ...
191	abounding	[.] ABOUND'ING, ppr. Having in great plenty; being in great plenty, being very prevalent; generally prevailing. [.] ABOUND'ING, n. Increase.
192	about	[.] ABOUT', prep. [Gr. butan, without, [see but,] literally, around, on the outside.] [.] 1. Around; on the exterior part or surface. [.] Bind them about thy neck. Prov. iii. 3. Isa. l. Hence, [.] 2. Near to in place, with the sense of circularity. [.] Get ...
193	above	[.] ABOVE', prep. [.] 1. Literally, higher in place. [.] The fowls that fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. [.] 2. Figuratively, superior in any respect. [.] I saw a light above the brightness of the Sun, Acts, 26. [.] The price of a virtuous woman is above rubies, ...
194	above-cited	[.] ABOVE-CITED, Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
195	above-ground	[.] ABOVE-GROUND, Alive, not buried.
196	above-mentioned	[.] ABOVE-MENTIONED, Mentioned before. A. Bp. Abbrev. for Archbishop.
197	abracadabra	[.] ABRACADAB'RA, The name of a deity worshipped by the Syrians: a cabalistic word. The letters of his name, written on paper, in the form of an inverted cone, were recommended by Samonicus as an antidote against certain diseases.
198	abrade	[.] ABRA'DE, v.t. [L. abrado, to scrape, from rado.] [.] To rub or wear off; to waste by friction; used especially to express the action of sharp, corrosive medicines, in wearing away or removing the mucus of the membranes.
199	abraded	[.] ABRA'DED, pp. Rubbed or worn off; worn; scraped.
200	abrading	[.] ABRA'DING, ppr. Rubbing off; wearing.
201	abrahamic	[.] ABRAHAM'IC, a. Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch, as Abrahamic Covenant.
202	abrasion	[.] ABRA'SION, n. abra'zhun. The act of wearing or rubbing off; also substance worn off by attrition.
203	abreast	[.] ABREAST', adv. abrest', [from a and breast.] [.] 1. Side by side; with the breasts in a line. [.] Two men rode abreast. [.] 2. In marine language, ships are abreast when their heads are equally advanced; and they are abreast of objects when the objects are on ...
204	abridge	[.] ABRIDGE', v.t. abridj', [G. short, or its root, from the root of break or a verb of that family.] [.] 1. To make shorter; to epitomize; to contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense in substance - used of writings. [.] Justin abridged the history of ...
205	abridged	[.] ABRIDG'ED, pp. Made shorter; epitomized; reduced to a smaller compass; lessened; deprived.
206	abridger	[.] ABRIDG'ER, n. One who abridges; one who makes a compend.
207	abridging	[.] ABRIDG'ING, ppr. shortening; lessening; depriving; debarring.
208	abridgment	[.] ABRIDG'MENT, n. [.] 1. An epitome; a compend, or summary of a book. [.] 2. Diminution; contraction; reduction - as an abridgment of expenses. [.] 3. Deprivation; a debarring or restraint - as an abridgment of pleasures.
209	abroach	[.] ABROACH, adv. [See Broach.] [.] Broached; letter out or yielding liquor, or in a posture for letting out; as a cask is abroach. Figuratively used by Shakespeare for setting loose, or in a state of being diffused, "Set mischief abroach;" but this sense is unusual.
210	abroad	[.] ABROAD, adv. abrawd'. [See Broad] [.] In a general sense, at large; widely; not confined to narrow limits. Hence, [.] 1. In the open air. [.] 2. Beyond or out of the walls of a house, as to walk abroad. [.] 3. Beyond the limits of a camp. Deut. xxiii. 10 [.] 4. ...
211	abrogate	[.] AB'ROGATE, v.t. [L abrago, to repeal. from ab and rogo, to ask or propose. See the English reach. Class Rg.] [.] To repeal; to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, ...
212	abrogated	[.] AB'ROGATED, pp. Repealed; annulled by an act of authority.
213	abrogating	[.] AB'ROGATING, ppr. Repealing by authority; making void.
214	abrogation	[.] ABROGA'TION, n. the act of abrogating; a repeal of authority of the legislative power.
215	abrood	[.] ABROOD', adv. [See Brood.] In the action of brooding. [Not in use.]
216	abrooding	[.] ABROOD'ING, n. A sitting abrood. [Not in use.]
217	abrook	[.] ABROOK', v.t. To brook, to endure. [Not in use. See Brook.]
218	abrotanum	[.] ABRO'TANUM, n. A species of plant arranged under the Genus, Artemisia; called also southern wood.
219	abrupt	[.] ABRUPT', a. [L. abruptus, from abrumpo, to break off, of ab and rumpo. See Rupture.] [.] 1. Literally, broken off, or broken short. [.] Hence, [.] 2. Steep, craggy; applied to rocks, precipices and the like. [.] 3. Figuratively, sudden; without notice to ...
220	abruption	[.] ABRUP'TION, n. A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
221	abruptly	[.] ABRUPT'LY, adv. suddenly; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; as, the Minister left France abruptly.
222	abruptness	[.] ABRUPT'NESS, n. [.] 1. [.] A state of being broken; craggedness; steepness. [.] 2. Figuratively, suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.
223	abscess	[.] AB'SCESS, n. [L. abscessus, from ab and cedo, to go from.] [.] An imposthume. A collection of morbid matter, or pus in the cellular or adipose membrane; matter generated by the suppuration of an inflammatory tumor.
224	abscind	[.] ABSCIND', vt. [L. abscindo.] To cut off. [Little used.]
225	absciss	[.] AB'SCISS, n. [L. abscissus, from ab and scindere, to cut; See Scissors.] [.] In conics, a part of the diameter, or transverse axis of a conic section, intercepted between the vertex or some other fixed point, and a semiordinate.
226	abscission	[.] ABSCIS'SION, n. [See Absciss.] [.] 1. A cutting off, or a begin cut off. In surgery, the separation of any corrupted or useless part of the body, by a sharp instrument; applied to the soft parts, as amputation is to the bones and flesh of a limb. [.] 2. In rhetoric, ...
227	abscond	[.] ABSCOND', v.i. [L. abscondo, to hide, of abs and condo, to hide, i.e. to withdraw, or to thrust aside or into a corner or secret place.] [.] 1. To retire from public view, or from the place in which one resides or is ordinarily to be found; to withdraw, or absent ...
228	absconder	[.] ABSCOND'ER, n. One who withdraws from public notice, or conceals himself from public view.
229	absconding	[.] ABSCOND'ING, ppr. Withdrawing privately from public view; as, an absconding debtor, who confines himself to his apartments, or absents himself to avoid the ministers of justice. In the latter sense, it is properly an adjective.
230	absence	[.] AB'SENCE, n. [L. absens, from absum, abesse, to be away; ab and sum.] [.] 1. A state of being at a distance in place, or not in company. It is used to denote any distance indefinitely, either in the same town, or country, or in a foreign country; and primarily ...
231	absent	[.] AB'SENT, a. [.] 1. Not present; not in company; at such a distance as to prevent communication. It is used also for being in a foreign country. [.] A gentleman is absent on his travels. [.] Absent from one another. Gen. 31:49. [.] 2. Heedless; inattentive ...
232	absentee	[.] ABSENTEE', n. One who withdraws from his country, office or estate; one who removed to a distant place or to another counter.
233	absenter	[.] ABSENT'ER, n. One who absents himself.
234	absentment	[.] ABSENT'MENT, n. A state of being absent.
235	absinthian	[.] ABSINTH'IAN, a. [from absinthium.] Of the nature of wormwood.
236	absinthiated	[.] ABSINTH'IATED, a. Impregnated with wormwood.
237	absinthium	[.] ABSINTH'IUM, n. Budaeus in his commentaries on Theophrast, supposes the word composed of a priv. delight, so named from its bitterness. But it may be an Oriental word. [.] The common wormwood; a bitter plant, used as a tonic. A species of Artemisia.
238	absis	[.] AB'SIS, In astronomy. [See Apsis.]
239	absolute	[.] AB'SOLUTE, a. [L. absolutus. See Absolve.] [.] 1. Literally, in a general sense, free, independent of any thing extraneous. Hence, [.] 2. Complete in itself; positive; as an absolute declaration. [.] 3. Unconditional, as an absolute promise. [.] 4. Existing ...
240	absolutely	[.] AB'SOLUTELY, adv. [.] 1. Completely, wholly, as a thing is absolutely unintelligible. [.] 2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected [.] Absolutely we cannot discommend, we cannot absolutely approve, either willingness to live, or forwardness ...
241	absoluteness	[.] AB'SOLUTENESS, n. Independence, completeness in itself. [.] 2. Despotic authority, or that which is subject to no extraneous restriction, or control.
242	absolution	[.] ABSOLU'TION, n. In the civil law, an acquittal or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent. In the canon law, a remission of sins pronounced by a priest in favor of a penitent. Among protestants, a sentence by which an excommunicated person is released ...
243	absolutory	[.] AB'SOLUTORY, a. Absolving; that absolves.
244	absolvatory	[.] ABSOLV'ATORY, a. [from absolve.] Containing absolution, pardon, or release; having power to absolve.
245	absolve	[.] ABSOLVE', v.t. abzolv', [L. absolvo, from ab and solvo, to loose or release; to absolve, to finish; Heb. to loose or loosen. See Solve.] [.] To set free or release from some obligation, debt or responsibility; or from that which subjects a person to a burden or ...
246	absolved	[.] ABSOLV'ED, pp. Released; acquitted; remitted; declared innocent.
247	absolver	[.] ABSOLV'ER, n. One who absolves; also one that pronounces sin to be remit.
248	absolving	[.] ABSOLV'ING, ppr. Setting free from a debt, or charge; acquitting; remitting.
249	absonant	[.] AB'SONANT, a. [See absonous.] Wide from the purpose; contrary to reason.
250	absonous	[.] AB'SONOUS, a. [L. absonus; ab and sonus, sound.] Unmusical or untunable
251	absorb	[.] ABSORB', v.t. [L. absorbeo, ab and sorbeo, to drink in; to draw or drink in; whence sirup, sherbet, shrub.] [.] 1. To drink in; to suck up; to imbibe; as a spunge, or as the lacteals of the body. [.] 2. To drink in, swallow up, or overwhelm with water, as ...
252	absorbability	[.] ABSORBABIL'ITY, n. a state or quality of being absorbable.
253	absorbable	[.] ABSORB'ABLE, a. That may be imbibed or swallowed.
254	absorbed	[.] ABSORB'ED, or ABSORPT', pp. Imbibed; swallowed; wasted; engaged; lost in study; wholly engrossed.
255	absorbent
256	absorbing	[.] ABSORB'ING, ppr. Imbibing; engrossing; wasting.
257	absorpt	[.] ABSORB'ED, or ABSORPT', pp. Imbibed; swallowed; wasted; engaged; lost in study; wholly engrossed.
258	absorption	[.] ABSORP'TION, n. [.] 1. The act or process of imbibing or swallowing; either by water which overwhelms, or by substances, which drink in and retain liquids; as the absorption of a body in a whirlpool, or of water by the earth, or of the humors of the body by dry ...
259	absorptive	[.] ABSORP'TIVE, a. Having power to imbibe.
260	abstain	[.] ABSTA'IN, v.i. [L. abstineo, to keep from; abs and teneo, to hold. See Tenant.] [.] In a general sense, to forbear, or refrain from, voluntarily; but used chiefly to denote a restraint upon the passions or appetites; to refrain from indulgence. [.] Abstain from ...
261	abstemious	[.] ABSTE'MIOUS, a. [L. abstemium, from abs and temetum, an ancient name of strong wine, according to Fabius and Gellius. But Vossius supposes it to be from abstineo, by a change of n to m. It may be from the root of timeo, to fear, that is, to withdraw.] [.] 1. ...
262	abstemiously	[.] ABSTE'MIOUSLY, adv. Temperately; with a sparing use of meat or drink.
263	abstemiousness	[.] ABSTE'MIOUSNESS, n. The quality of being temperate or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. [.] This word expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
264	absterge	[.] ABSTERGE', v.t. abstery'. [L. abstergeo, of abs and tergeo, to wipe. Tergeo may have a common origin with the Sw. torcka, G. trocknen, D. droogen, Sax. drygan, to dry; for these Teutonic verbs signify to wipe, as well as to dry.] [.] To wipe or make clean by wiping; ...
265	abstergent	[.] ABSTERG'ENT, a. Wiping; cleansing. [.] ABSTERG'ENT, n. a medicine which frees the body from obstructions, as soap; but the use of the word is nearly superseded by detergent, which see.
266	abstersion	[.] ABSTER'SION, n. [from L. abstergeo, abstersus.] The act of wiping clean; or a cleansing by medicines which resolve obstructions. [See Deterge, Detersion.]
267	abstersive	[.] ABSTER'SIVE, a. Cleansing; having the quality of removing obstructions. [See Detersive.]
268	abstinence	[.] AB'STINENCE, n. [L. abstinentia. See Abstain.] [.] 1. In general, the act or practice of voluntarily refraining from, or forbearing any action. "Abstinence from every thing which can be deemed labor. [.] More appropriately, [.] 2. The refraining from an ...
269	abstinent	[.] AB'STINENT, a. Refraining from indulgence, especially in the use of food and drink.
270	abstinently	[.] AB'STINENTLY, adv. With abstinence.
271	abstinents	[.] AB'STINENTS, a sect which appeared in France and Spain in the third century, who opposed marriage, condemned the use of flesh meat, and placed the Holy Spirit in the class of created beings.
272	abstract	[.] ABSTRACT', v.t. [L. abstraho, to draw from or separate; from abs and traho, which is the Eng. draw. See Draw.] [.] 1. To draw from, or to separate; as to abstract an action from its evil effects; to abstract spirit from any substance by distillation; but in this ...
273	abstracted	[.] ABSTRACT'ED, pp. Separated; refined; exalted; abstruse; absent in mind.
274	abstractedly	[.] ABSTRACT'EDLY, adv. In a separate state, or in contemplation only.
275	abstractedness	[.] ABSTRACT'EDNESS, n. the state of being abstracted.
276	abstracter	[.] ABSTRACT'ER, n. One who makes an abstract, or summary.
277	abstracting	[.] ABSTRACT'ING, ppr. Separating, making a summary.
278	abstraction	[.] ABSTRAC'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of separating, or state of being separated. [.] 2. The operation of the mind when occupied by abstract ideas; as when we contemplate some particular part, or property of a complex object, as separate from the rest. Thus, when ...
279	abstractitious	[.] ABSTRACTI'TIOUS particularly from vegetables, without fermentation.
280	abstractive	[.] ABSTRACT'IVE, a. Having the power or quality of abstracting. [.] ABSTRACT'IVE, a. Abstracted, or drawn from other substances,
281	abstractly	[.] AB'STRACTLY, adv. separately; absolutely; in a state or manner unconnected with any thing else; as, matter abstractly considered.
282	abstractness	[.] AB'STRACTNESS, n. A separate state; a state of being in contemplation only, or not connected with any object.
283	abstrude	[.] ABSTRU'DE, v.t. [Infra.] To thrust or pull away. [Not used.]
284	abstruse	[.] ABSTRU'SE, a. [L. abstrusus, from abstrudo, to thrust away, to conceal; abs and trudo; Eng. to thrust.] Hid; concealed; hence, remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; opposed to what is obvious. [Not used of material objects.] [.] Metaphysics ...
285	abstrusely	[.] ABSTRU'SELY, adv. In a concealed; hence, remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; opposed to what is obvious. [Not used of material objects.]
286	absurd	[.] ABSURD', a. [L. absurdus, from ab and surdus, deaf, insensible.] Opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with reason or the plain dictates of common sense. An absurd man acts contrary to the clear dictates of reason or sound judgement. An absurd proposition contradicts ...
287	absurdity	...
288	absurdly	[.] ABSURD'LY, adv. In a manner inconsistent with reason or obvious propriety.
289	absurdness	[.] ABSURD'NESS, n. The same as absurdity, and less used.
290	abtruseness	[.] ABTRU'SENESS, n. Obscurity of meaning; the state of quality of being difficult to be understood.
291	abundance	[.] ABUND'ANCE, n. Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants. [.] In scripture, the abundance of the rich is great wealth. Eccl. 5. Mark, 7. Luke 21. [.] The ...
292	abundant	[.] ABUND'ANT, a. Plentiful; in great quantity; fully sufficient; as an abundant supply. In scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with. [.] The Lord God is abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. [.] Abundant number, in arithmetic, is one, ...
293	abundantly	[.] ABUND'ANTLY, adv. Fully; amply; plentifully; in a sufficient degree.
294	abusage	[.] ABU'SAGE, n. Abuse. [Not used.]
295	abuse	[.] ABU'SE, v.t. s as z. [L. abutor, abusus of ab and utor, to use; Gr. to accustom. See Use.] [.] 1. To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse; to use with bad motives or to wrong purposes; as, to abuse rights or privileges. [.] They that use this world as not abusing ...
296	abused	[.] ABU'SED, pp. s as z. Ill-used; used to a bad purpose; treated with rude language; misemployed; perverted to bad or wrong ends; deceived; defiled; violated.
297	abuseful	[.] ABU'SEFUL, a. Using or practicing abuse; abusive. [Not used.]
298	abuser	[.] ABU'SER, n. s as z. One who abuses, in speech or behavior; one that deceives; a ravisher; a sodomite. 1Cor. vi.
299	abusing	[.] ABU'SING, ppr. s as z. Using ill; employing to bad purposes; deceiving; violating the person; perverting.
300	abusion	[.] ABU'SION, n. abu'zhon. Abuse; evil or corrupt usage; reproach. [Little used.]
301	abusive	[.] ABU'SIVE, a. [.] 1. Practicing abuse; offering harsh words, or ill treatment; as an abusive author; an abusive fellow. [.] 2. Containing abuse, or that is the instrument of abuse, as abusive words; rude; reproachful. In the sense of deceitful, as an abusive ...
302	abusively	[.] ABU'SIVELY, adv. In an abusive manner; rudely; reproachfully.
303	abusiveness	[.] ABU'SIVENESS, n. Ill-usage; the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
304	abut	[.] ABUT', v.i. To border upon; to be contiguous to; to meet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end; but this distinction has not always been observed. The word is chiefly used in describing the bounds or situation of land, and in popular language, is contracted into ...
305	abutment	[.] ABUT'MENT, n. [.] 1. The head or end; that which unites one end of a thing to another; chiefly used to denote the solid pier or mound of earth, stone or timber, which is erected on the bank of a river to support the end of a bridge and connect it with the land. [.] 2. ...
306	abuttal	[.] ABUT'TAL, n. The butting or boundary of land at the end; a head-land.
307	aby	[.] ABY', v.t. or i. [Probably contracted from abide.] To endure; to pay dearly; to remain. Obs.
308	abysm	[.] ABYSM', n. abyzm'. [See Abyss.] A gulf.
309	abyss	[.] ABYSS', n. [Gr. bottomless, from a priv. and bottom, Ion. See Bottom.] [.] 1. A bottomless gulf; used also for a deep mass of waters, supposed by some to have encompassed the earth before the flood. [.] Darkness was upon the face of the deep, or abyss, as it ...
310	abyssinian	[.] ABYSSIN'IAN, a. A name denoting a mixed multitude or a black race.
311	abyssinians	[.] ABYSSIN'IANS, n. A sect of christians in Abyssinia, who admit but one nature in Jesus Christ, and reject the council of Chalcedon. They are governed by a bishop, or metropolitan, call Abuna, who is appointed by the Coptic patriarch of Cairo.
312	ac	[.] AC, in Saxon, oak, the initial syllable of names, as acton, oaktown.
313	acacalot	[.] ACAC'ALOT, n. A Mexican fowl, the Tantalus Mexicanus, or
314	acacia	[.] ACA'CIA, n. [L. acacia, a thorn, from Gr., a point.] [.] Egyptian thorn, a species of plant ranked by Linne under the genus mimosa, and by others, made a distinct genus. Of the flowers of one species, the Chinese make a yellow dye which bears washing in silks, ...
315	acacians	[.] ACA'CIANS, in Church History, were certain sects, so denominated from their leaders, Acacius, bishop of Cesarea, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople. Some of these maintained that the Son was only a similar, not the same, substance with the Father; others, that ...
316	academe	[.] ACADE'ME; n. an academy; a society of persons. [Not used.]
317	academial	[.] ACADE'MIAL, a Pertaining to an academy.
318	academian	[.] ACADE'MIAN, n. A member of an academy; a student in a university or college.
319	academic	[.] ACADEM'IC, a. Belonging to an academy, or to a college or ACADEM'ICAL, university - as academic studies; also noting what belongs to the school or philosophy of Plato - as the academic sect. [.] ACADEM'IC, n. One who belonged to the school or adhered to ...
320	academically	[.] ACADEM'ICALLY, adv. In an academical manner.
321	academician	[.] ACADEMI'CIAN, n. a member of an academy, or society for promoting arts and sciences; particularly, a member of the French academies.
322	academism	[.] ACAD'EMISM, n. The doctrine of the academic philosophy.
323	academist	[.] ACAD'EMIST, n. a member of an Academy for promoting arts and sciences; also an academic philosopher.
324	academy	[.] ACAD'EMY, n. [L. academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences. [.] 1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common ...
325	acalot	[.] AC'ALOT, Corvusaquaticus, water raven.
326	acamacu	[.] ACAMAC'U, n. A bird, the Brazilian fly catcher, or Todus.
327	acanaceous	[.] ACANA'CEOUS, a acana'shus. [Gr. a prickly shrub.] [.] Armed with prickles. A class of plants are called acanaceae.
328	acantha	[.] ACANTH'A, n. [Gr. a spine or thorn.] [.] In botany, a prickle; in zoology, a spine or prickly fin; an acute process of the vertebers.
329	acanthaceous	[.] ACANTHA'CEOUS, a. Armed with prickles, as a plant.
330	acantharis	[.] ACAN'THARIS, n. In entomology, a species of Cimex, with a spinous thorax, and a ciliated abdomen, with spines; found in Jamaica.
331	acanthine	[.] ACANTH'INE, a [See acanthus.] [.] Pertaining to the plant, acanthus. The acanthine garments of the ancients were made of the down of thistles, or embroidered in imitation of the acanthus.
332	acanthopterygious	[.] ACANTHOPTERYG'IOUS, a [Gr. a thorn, and a little feather, from a feather.] [.] In zoology, having back fins which are hard, bony and pricky, a term applied to certain fishes.
333	acanthus	[.] ACANTH'US, n. [G. and L. acanthus, from a prickle or thorn. See acantha.] [.] 1. The plant bear's breech or brank ursine; a genus of several species, receiving their name from their prickles. [.] 2. In architecture, an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves ...
334	acanticone	[.] ACAN'TICONE, n. See Pistacite.
335	acarnar	[.] ACARN'AR, n. A bright star, of the first magnitude, in Eridanus.
336	acatalectic	[.] ACATALEC'TIC, n. [Gr. not defective at the end, to cease.] A verse, which has the complete number of syllables without defect or superfluity.
337	acatalepsy	[.] ACAT'ALEPSY, n. [Gr. to comprehend.] [.] Impossibility of complete discovery or comprehension; incomprehensibility. [Little used.]
338	acatechill	[.] ACAT'ECHILL, n. a Mexican bird, a species of Fringilla, of the size of the siskin.
339	acater	[.] ACATER, ACATES. See Caterer and Cates.
340	acates	[.] ACATER, ACATES. See Caterer and Cates.
341	acauline	[.] ACAU'LINE, a. [L. a priv. and caulis, Gr. a stalk. See ACAU'LOUS, Colewort.] [.] In botany, without a stem, having flowers resting on the ground; as the Carline thistle.
342	accede	[.] ACCE'DE, v.i. [L. accedo, of ad and cedo, to yield or give place, or rather to move.] [.] 1. To agree or assent, as to a proposition, or to terms proposed by another. Hence in a negotiation. [.] 2. To become a party, by agreeing to the terms of a treaty or ...
343	acceding	[.] ACCE'DING, ppr. Agreeing; assenting: becoming a party to a treaty by agreeing to the terms proposed.
344	accelerate	[.] ACCEL'ERATE, v.t. [L. accelero, of ad and celero, to hasten, from celer, quick. [.] 1. To cause to move faster; to hasten; to quicken motion; to add to the velocity of a moving body. It implies previous motion or progression. [.] 2. To add to natural or ordinary ...
345	accelerated	[.] ACCEL'ERATED, pp. Quickened in motion; hastened in progress.
346	accelerating	[.] ACCEL'ERATING, ppr. Hastening; increasing velocity or progression.
347	acceleration	[.] ACCELERA'TION, n. The act of increasing velocity or progress; the state of being quickened in motion or action. Accelerated motion in mechanics and physics, is that which continually receives accessions of velocity; as, a falling body moves towards the earth with ...
348	accelerative	[.] ACCEL'ERATIVE, a. Adding to velocity; quickening progression.
349	acceleratory	[.] ACCEL'ERATORY, a Accelerating; quickening motion.
350	accend	[.] ACCEND', v.t. [L. accendo, to kindle; ad and candeo, caneo, to be white, canus, white; W. can, white, bright; also a song. Whence, canto, to sing, to chant; cantus, a song; Eng. cant; W. canu, to bleach or whiten, and to sing; cymnud, fuel. Hence, kindle, L. candidus, ...
351	accendibility	[.] ACCENDIBIL'ITY, n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed.
352	accendible	[.] ACCEND'IBLE, a. Capable OF being inflamed or kindled.
353	accension	[.] ACCEN'SION, n. The act of kindling or setting on fire; or the state of being kindled; inflammation.
354	accent	[.] AC'CENT, n. [L. accentus, from ad and cano, cantum, to sing; See Accend.] [.] 1. The modulation of the voice in reading or speaking, as practiced by the ancient Greeks, which rendered their rehearsal musical. More strictly, in English, [.] 2. A particular stress ...
355	accented	[.] AC'CENTED, pp. Uttered with accent; marked with accent.
356	accenting	[.] AC'CENTING, ppr. Pronouncing or marking with accent.
357	accentual	[.] ACCENT'UAL, a. Pertaining to accent.
358	accentuate	[.] ACCENT'UATE, v.t. To mark or pronounce with an accent or with accents.
359	accentuation	[.] ACCENTUA'TION, n. The act of placing accents in writing, or of pronouncing them in speaking.
360	accept	[.] ACCEPT', v.t. [L. accepto, from accipio, ad and capio, to take.] [.] 1. To take or receive what is offered, with a consenting mind; to receive with approbation or favor. [.] Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands. Deut. 33. [.] He made ...
361	acceptable	[.] ACCEPT'ABLE, a. [.] 1. That may be received with pleasure; hence pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; as an acceptable present. [.] 2. Agreeable or pleasing in person; as, a man makes himself acceptable by his services or civilities.
362	acceptableness	[.] ACCEPT'ABLENESS, n. the quality of being agreeable to a ACCEPTABIL'ITY, receiver, or to a person with whom one has intercourse. [The latter word is little used, or not at all.]
363	acceptably	[.] ACCEPT'ABLY, adv. In a manner to please, or give satisfaction. [.] Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably. [.] Heb. 12.
364	acceptance	[.] ACCEPT'ANCE, n. [.] 1. A receiving with approbation or satisfaction; favorable reception; as work done to acceptance. [.] They shall come up with acceptance on my altar. Isa. 60. [.] 2. the receiving of a bill of exchange or order, in such a manner, as to ...
365	acceptation	[.] ACCEPTA'TION, n. [.] 1. Kind reception; a receiving with favor or approbation. [.] This is a saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. 1. [.] 2. A state of being acceptable; favorable regard. [.] Some things are of great dignity and acceptation with God [.] But ...
366	accepted	[.] ACCEPT'ED, pp. Kindly received; regarded; agreed to; understood; received as a bill of exchange.
367	accepter	[.] ACCEPT'ER, OR ACCEPT'OR, n. A person who accepts; the person who receives a bill of exchange so as to bind himself to pay it. [See Acceptance.]
368	accepting	[.] ACCEPT'ING, ppr. Receiving favorably; agreeing to; understanding.
369	acception	[.] ACCEP'TION, n. The received sense of a word. [Not now used.]
370	acceptive	[.] ACCEPT'IVE, a. Ready to accept. [Not used.]
371	acceptor	[.] ACCEPT'ER, OR ACCEPT'OR, n. A person who accepts; the person who receives a bill of exchange so as to bind himself to pay it. [See Acceptance.]
372	access	[.] ACCESS', n. [L. accessus, from accedo. See Accede.] [.] 1. A coming to; near approach; admittance; admission, as to gain access to a prince. [.] 2. Approach, or the way by which a thing may be approached; as, the access is by a neck of land. [.] 3. Means ...
373	accessarily	[.] ACCESSARILY, See ACCESSORILY.
374	accessariness	[.] ACCESSARINESS, See ACCESSORINESS
375	accessary	[.] ACCESSARY, See ACCESSORY.
376	accessibility	[.] ACCESSIBIL'ITY, n. The quality of being approachable; or of admitting access.
377	accessible	[.] ACCESS'IBLE, a. [.] 1. That may be approached or reached; approachable; applied to things; as an accessible town or mountain. [.] 2. Easy of approach, affable, used of persons.
378	accession	[.] ACCESS'ION, n. [L. accessio.] [.] 1. A coming to; an acceding to and joining; as a king's accession to a confederacy. [.] 2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation; as an accession of wealth or territory. [.] 3. In law, a mode of ...
379	accessional	[.] ACCESS'IONAL, a. Additional
380	accessorial	[.] ACCESSO'RIAL, a. Pertaining to an accessory; as accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.
381	accessorily	[.] AC'CESSORILY, adv. [See Accessory.] In the manner of an accessory; by subordinate means, or in a secondary character; not as principal, but as a subordinate agent.
382	accessoriness	[.] AC'CESSORINESS, n. The state of being accessory, or of being or acting in a secondary character.
383	accessory	[.] AC'CESSORY, a. [L. Accessorius, from accessus, accedo. See Accede. This word is accented on the first syllable on account of the derivatives, which require a secondary accent on the third; but the natural accent of accessory is on the second syllable, and thus it ...
384	accidence	[.] AC'CIDENCE, n. [See Accident.] A small book containing the rudiments of grammar.
385	accident	[.] AC'CIDENT, n. [L. accidens, falling, from ad and cado, to fall. See Case and Cadence. Class Gd.] [.] 1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect ...
386	accidental	[.] ACCIDENT'AL, a. [.] 1. Happening by chance, or rather unexpectedly; casual; fortuitous, taking place not according to the usual course of things; opposed to that which is constant, regular, or intended, as an accidental visit. [.] 2. Non-essential; not necessarily ...
387	accidentally	[.] ACCIDENT'ALLY, adv. By chance; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
388	accidentalness	[.] ACCIDENT'ALNESS, n. The quality of being casual. [Little used.]
389	accidentiary	[.] ACCIDEN'TIARY, a. Pertaining to the accidence. [Not used.]
390	accipiter	[.] ACCIP'ITER, n. [L. ad and capio, to seize.] [.] 1. A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna, a species of Trigla. [.] 2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls. [.] The accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, ...
391	accipitrine	[.] ACCIP'ITRINE, a. Seizing; rapacious; as the accipitrine order of fowls.
392	accite	[.] ACCI'TE v.t. [L. adand cito, to cite.] To call; to cite; to summon. [Not used.]
393	acclaim	[.] ACCLA'IM v.t. [L acclamo, ad and clamo, to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.] To applaud. [Little used.
394	acclamation	[.] ACCLAMA'TION, n. [L. acclamatio. See acclaim.] [.] A shout of applause uttered by a multitude. Anciently, acclamation was a form of words, uttered with vehemence, somewhat resembling a song, sometimes accompanied with applauses which were given by the hands. Acclamations ...
395	acclamatory	[.] ACCLAM'ATORY, a. Expressing joy or applause by shouts, or clapping of hands.
396	acclimated	[.] ACCLI'MATED, a. Habituated to a foreign climate, or a climate not native; so far accustomed to a foreign climate as not to be peculiarly liable to its endemical diseases.
397	acclivity	...
398	acclivous	[.] ACCLI'VOUS, a. Rising, as a hill with a slope.
399	accloy	[.] ACCLOY', To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. [Not used.] [See Clay.]
400	accoil	[.] ACCOIL', [See Coil.]
401	accola	[.] AC'COLA, n. A delicate fish eaten at Malta.
402	accolade	[.] ACCOLA'DE, n. [L. ad and collum, neck.] [.] A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood; but whether an embrace or a blow, seems not to be settled.
403	accommodable	[.] ACCOM'MODABLE, a. [See Accommodate.] [.] That may be fitted, made suitable, or made to agree. [Little used.]
404	accommodate	[.] ACCOM'MODATE, v.t. [L. accommodo, to apply or suit, from ad and commodo, to profit or help; of con, with, and modus, measure, proportion, limit, or manner. See Mode.] [.] 1. To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate ...
405	accommodated	[.] ACCOM'MODATED, pp. fitted; adjusted; adapted; applied; also furnished with conveniences. [.] We are well accommodated with lodgings.
406	accommodately	[.] ACCOM'MODATELY, adv. Suitable; fitly. [Little used.]
407	accommodateness	[.] ACCOM'MODATENESS, n. fitness. [Little used.]
408	accommodating	[.] ACCOM'MODATING, ppr. Adapting; making suitable; reconciling; furnishing with conveniences; applying.
409	accommodation	[.] ACCOMMODA'TION, n. [.] 1. Fitness; adaptation; followed by to. [.] The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions. [.] 2. Adjustment of differences; reconciliation; as of parties in dispute. [.] 3. Provision of conveniences. [.] 4. ...
410	accommodator	[.] ACCOM'MODATOR, n. One that accommodates; one that adjusts.
411	accompanable	[.] ACCOM'PANABLE, a. [See Accompany.] sociable. [Not used.]
412	accompanied	[.] ACCOM'PANIED, pp. Attended; joined with in society.
413	accompaniment	[.] ACCOM'PANIMENT, n. Something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added by way of ornament to the principal thing, or for the sake of symmetry. Thus instruments of music attending the voice; small objects in painting; dogs, guns and game in a hunting piece; ...
414	accompanist	[.] ACCOM'PANIST, n. The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
415	accompany	[.] ACCOM'PANY, v.t. [See Company.] [.] 1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate on a journey, walk, &c; as a man accompanies his friend to church, or on a tour. [.] 2. To be with as connected; to attend; as pain accompanies disease.
416	accompanying	[.] ACCOM'PANYING, ppr. Attending; going with as a companion.
417	accomplice	[.] ACCOM'PLICE, n. [L. complicatus, folded together, of con, with, and plico, to fold. See Complex and Pledge.] An associate in a crime; a partner or partaker in guilt. It was formerly used in a good sense for a co-operator, but this sense is wholly obsolete. It is ...
418	accomplish	[.] ACCOM'PLISH, v.t. [L. compleo, to complete. See Complete.] [.] 1. To complete; to finish entirely. [.] That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Dan. 9 [.] 2. To execute; as to accomplish a vow, wrath or fury. Lev. 13 and ...
419	accomplished	[.] ACCOM'PLISHED, pp. [.] 1. Finished; completed; fulfilled; executed; effected. [.] 2. a. Well endowed with good qualities and manners; complete in acquirements; having a finished education. [.] 3. Fashionable.
420	accomplisher	[.] ACCOM'PLISHER, n. One who accomplishes.
421	accomplishing	[.] ACCOM'PLISHING, ppr. finishing; completing; fulfilling; executing; effecting; furnishing with valuable qualities.
422	accomplishment	[.] ACCOM'PLISHMENT, n. [.] 1. Completion; fulfillment; entire performance; as the accomplishment of a prophecy. [.] 2. The act of carrying into effect, or obtaining an object designed; attainment; as the accomplishment of our desires or ends. [.] 3. Acquirement; ...
423	accompt	[.] ACCOMPT', obs. [See Account.]
424	accomptant	[.] ACCOMPT'ANT, Obs. [See Accountant.]
425	accord	[.] ACCORD', n.The Lat. has concors, concordo. [.] 1. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills. [.] They all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts, 1. [.] 2. Concert; harmony of sounds; the union of different sounds, which ...
426	accordable	[.] ACCORD'ABLE, a. Agreeable, consonant.
427	accordant	[.] ACCORD'ANT, a. Corresponding; consonant; agreeable.
428	accorded	[.] ACCORD'ED, pp. Make to agree; adjusted.
429	accorder	[.] ACCORD'ER, n. One that aids, or favors. [Little used.]
430	according	[.] ACCORD'ING, ppr. [.] 1. Agreeing; harmonizing. [.] Th' according music of a well mixt state. [.] 2. Suitable; agreeable; in accordance with. [.] In these senses, the word agrees with or refers to a sentence. [.] Our zeal should be according to knowledge. [.] Noble ...
431	accordingly	[.] ACCORD'INGLY, adv. Agreeably; suitably; in a manner conformable to. [.] Those who live in faith and good works, will be rewarded accordingly.
432	accorporate	[.] ACCORP'ORATE, v.t. To unite; [Not in use.] [See Incorporate.]
433	accost	[.] ACCOST', v.t. [.] 1. To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face to face. [Not in use.] [.] 2. To speak first to; to address. [.] ACCOST', v.i. to adjoin. [Not in use.]
434	accostable	[.] ACCOST'ABLE, a. Ease of access; familiar.
435	accosted	[.] ACCOST'ED, pp. Address; first spoken to. In heraldry, being side by side.
436	accosting	[.] ACCOST'ING, ppr. Addressing by first speaking to.
437	accoucheur	[.] ACCOUCHEUR, n. accoshare. A man who assists women in childbirth.
438	account	[.] ACCOUNT', n. [.] 1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services &c., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price ...
439	accountability	[.] ACCOUNTABIL'ITY, n. [.] 1. The state of being liable to answer for one's conduct; liability to give account, and to receive reward or punishment for actions. [.] The awful idea of accountability. [.] 2. Liability to the payment of money or of damages; responsibility ...
440	accountable	[.] ACCOUNT'ABLE, a. [.] 1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior. [.] Every man is accountable to God for his conduct. [.] 2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. A sheriff is accountable, as bailiff and receiver of goods. [.] Accountable ...
441	accountableness	[.] ACCOUNT'ABLENESS, n. Liableness to answer or to give account; the state of being answerable, or liable to the payment of money or damages.
442	accountant	[.] ACCOUNT'ANT, n. One skilled in mercantile accounts; more generally, a person who keeps accounts; an officer in a public office who has charge of the accounts. In Great Britain, an officer in the court of chancery, who receives money and pays it to the bank, is call ...
443	accountbook	[.] ACCOUNT'BOOK, n. A book in which accounts are kept.
444	accounted	[.] ACCOUNT'ED, pp. Esteemed; deemed; considered; regarded; valued. [.] Accounted for, explained.
445	accounting	[.] ACCOUNT'ING, ppr. Deeming; esteeming; reckoning; rendering an account. [.] Accounting for, rendering an account; assigning the reasons; unfolding the causes. [.] ACCOUNT'ING, n. The act of reckoning or adjusting accounts.
446	accouple	[.] ACCOUPLE, v.t. accup'ple. To couple; to join or link together. [See Couple.]
447	accouplement	[.] ACCOUPLEMENT, n. accup'plement. A coupling, a connecting in pairs; junction. [Little used.]
448	accourage	[.] ACCOUR'AGE, v.t. accur'age. [See Courage.] To encourage. [Not used.]
449	accourt	[.] ACCOURT, v.t. [See Court.] To entertain with courtesy. [Not used.]
450	accouter	[.] ACCOUTER, v.t. acoot'er [.] In a general sense, to dress; to equip, but appropriately, to array in a military dress; to put on, or to furnish with a military dress and arms; to equip the body for military service.
451	accoutered	[.] ACCOUT'ERED, pp. Dressed in arms; equipped.
452	accoutering	[.] ACCOUT'ERING, ppr. Equipping with military habiliments.
453	accouterments	[.] ACCOUT'ERMENTS, n. plu. [.] 1. Dress; equipage; furniture for the body; appropriately, military dress and arms; equipage for military service. [.] 2. In common usage, an old or unusual dress.
454	accoy	[.] ACCOY', v.t. To render quiet or diffident; to soothe; to caress. [Obs.]
455	accredit	[.] ACCRED'IT, v.t. [L. ad and credo, to believe, or give faith to. See Credit.] [.] To give credit, authority, or reputation; to accredit an envoy, is to receive him in his public character, and give him credit and rank accordingly.
456	accreditation	[.] ACCREDITA'TION, n. That which gives title to credit. [Little used.]
457	accredited	[.] ACCRED'ITED, pp. Allowed; received with reputation; authorized in a public character.
458	accrediting	[.] ACCRED'ITING, ppr. Giving authority or reputation.
459	accrescent	[.] ACCRES'CENT,a. [See Accretion.] Increasing.
460	accretion	[.] ACCRE'TION, n. [Lat. accretio, increase; accres'co, to increase, literally, to grow to; ad and cresco; Eng. accrue; See Increase, Accrue, Grow.] [.] 1. A growing to; an increase by natural growth; applied to the increase of organic bodies by the accession of ...
461	accretive	[.] ACCRE'TIVE, a. Increasing by growth; growing; adding to be growth; as the accretive motion of plants.
462	accroach	[.] ACCROACH, v.i. [.] 1. To hook, or draw to, as with a hook; but in this sense not used. [.] 2. To encroach; to draw away from another. Hence in old laws to assume the exercise of royal prerogatives. [.] The noun accroachment, an encroachment, or attempt to exercise ...
463	accrue	[.] ACCRUE, v.i. accru'. [L. accresco, cresco.] [.] Literally, to grow to; hence to arise, proceed or come; to be added, as increase, profit or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver. [.] ACCRUE, ...
464	accruing	[.] ACCRU'ING, ppr. Growing to; arising; coming; being added.
465	accrument	[.] ACCRU'MENT, n. Addition; increase. [Little used.]
466	accubation	[.] ACCUBA'TION, n. [L. accubatio, a reclingin, from ad and cubo, to lie down. See Cube.] [.] A lying or reclining on a couch, as the ancients at their meals. The manner was to recline on low beds or couches with the head resting on a pillow or on the elbow. Two or ...
467	accumb	[.] ACCUMB', v.i. [L. accumbo; ad and cubo.] To recline as at table. [Not used.]
468	accumbency	[.] ACCUM'BENCY, n. State of being accumbent or reclining.
469	accumbent	[.] ACCUM'BENT, a. [L. accumbens, accumbo, from cubo. See Accubation.] Leaning or reclining, as the ancients at their meals.
470	accumulate	[.] ACCU'MULATE, v.t. [L. accumulo, ad and cumulo, to heap; cumulus a heap.] [.] 1. To heap up; to pile; to amass; as, to accumulate earth or stones. [.] 2. To collect or bring together; as to accumulate causes of misery; to accumulate wealth. [.] ACCU'MULATE, ...
471	accumulated	[.] ACCU'MULATED, pp. Collected into a heap or great quantity.
472	accumulating	[.] ACCU'MULATING, ppr. Heaping up; amassing; increasing greatly.
473	accumulation	[.] ACCUMULA'TION,n. [.] 1. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated; an amassing; a collecting together; as an accumulation of earth or of evils. [.] 2. In law, the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the ...
474	accumulative	[.] ACCU'MULATIVE, a. That accumulates; heaping up; accumulating.
475	accumulator	[.] ACCU'MULATOR, n. One that accumulates, gathers, or amasses.
476	accuracy	[.] AC'CURACY,n. [L. accuratio, from accurare, to take care of; ad and curare, to take care; cura, care. See Care.] [.] 1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The ...
477	accurate	[.] AC'CURATE, a. [L. accuratus.] [.] 1. In exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from failure, error, or defect; as an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expression. [.] 2. Determinate; precisely fixed; as, one body ...
478	accurately	[.] AC'CURATELY, adv. [.] 1. Exactly; in an accurate manner; with precision; without error or defect; as a writing accurately copied. [.] 2. Closely; so as to be perfectly tight; as a vial accurately stopped.
479	accurateness	[.] AC'CURATENESS, n. Accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
480	accurse	[.] ACCURSE, v.t. accurs', [ Ac for ad and curse.] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. [This verb is rarely used. See Curse.]
481	accursed	[.] ACCURS'ED, pp. or a. [.] 1. Doomed to destruction or misery: [.] The city shall be accursed. John 6. [.] 2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated. [.] I could wish myself accursed from Christ. [.] 3. Worthy of the curse; ...
482	accusable	[.] ACCU'SABLE,a. That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of.
483	accusant	[.] ACCU'SANT, n. One who accuses.
484	accusation	[.] ACCUSA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice. [.] 2. The charge of an offense or crime; or the declaration containing the charge. [.] They set over his head his accusation. Mat. 27.
485	accusative	[.] ACCU'SATIVE, a. A term given to a case of nouns, in Grammars, on which the action of a verb terminates or falls; called in English Grammar the objective case.
486	accusatively	[.] ACCU'SATIVELY, adv. [.] 1. In an accusative manner. [.] 2. In relation to the accusative case in Grammar.
487	accusatory	[.] ACCU'SATORY, a. Accusing; containing an accusation; as an accusatory libel.
488	accuse	[.] ACCU'SE, v.t. [L. accuso, to blame or accuse; ad and causor, to blame, or accuse; causa, blame, suit, or process, cause. See Cause.] [.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; ...
489	accused	[.] ACCU'SED, pp. Charged with a crime, by a legal process; charged with an offense; blamed.
490	accuser	[.] ACCU'SER, n. One who accuses or blames; an officer who prefers an accusation against another for some offense, in the name of the government, before a tribunal that has cognizance of the offense.
491	accusing	[.] ACCU'SING, ppr. Charging with a crime; blaming.
492	accustom	[.] ACCUS'TOM, v.t. [.] To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice; to habituate or inure; as to accustom one's self to a spare diet. [.] ACCUS'TOM, v.i. [.] 1. To be wont, or habituated to do anything. [Little used.] [.] 2. To cohabit. [Not used.] [.] ACCUS'TOM, ...
493	accustomable	[.] ACCUS'TOMABLE, a. Of long custom; habitual; customary. [Little used.]
494	accustomably	[.] ACCUS'TOMABLY, adv. According to custom or habit. [Little used.]
495	accustomance	[.] ACCUS'TOMANCE, n. custom; habitual use or practice. [Not used.]
496	accustomarily	[.] ACCUS'TOMARILY, adv. According to custom or common practice. [See Customarily.] [Little used.]
497	accustomary	[.] ACCUS'TOMARY, a. Usual; customary [See Customary.] [Little used.]
498	accustomed	[.] ACCUS'TOMED, pp. [.] 1. Being familiar by use; habituated; inured. [.] 2. a. Usual; often practiced; as in their accustomed manner.
499	accustoming	[.] ACCUS'TOMING, ppr. Making familiar by practice; inuring.
500	ace	[.] ACE, n. [L. as, a unit or pound; G. ass.] [.] 1. A unit; a single point on a card or die; or the card or die so marked. [.] 2. A very small quantity; a particle; an atom; a trifle; as a creditor will not abate an ace of his demand.
501	aceetate	[.] ACE'ETATE, n. [See Acid.] In chimistry, a neutral salt formed by the union of the acetic acid, or radical vinegar, with any salifiable base, as with earths, metals, and alkalies; as the acetate of alumine, of lime, or of copper.
502	aceldama	[.] ACEL'DAMA, n. [.] A field said to have laid south of Jerusalem, the same as the potters field, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood. It was appropriated to the interment of strangers.
503	acephalous	[.] ACEPH'ALOUS, a. [Gr. a priv., a head.] [.] Without a head, headless. In history, the term Acephali, or Acephalites was given to several sects who refused to follow some noted leader, and to such bishops as were exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their ...
504	acephalus	[.] ACEPH'ALUS, n. an obsolete name of the taenia or tape worm, which was formerly supposed to have no head; an error now exploded. the term is also used to express a verse defective in the beginning.
505	acerb	[.] ACERB', a. [L. acerbus; G. herbe, harsh, sour, tart, bitter, rough, whence herbst autumn, herbstzeit, harvest time. See Harvest.] [.] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste; sour, with astringency or roughness; a quality of unripe fruits.
506	acerbity	[.] ACERB'ITY, n. [.] 1. A sourness, with roughness, or astringency. [.] 2. Figuratively, harshness or severity of temper in man.
507	aceric	[.] ACER'IC, a. [L. acer, a maple tree.] [.] Pertaining to the maple; obtained from the maple, as aceric acid.
508	acerous	[.] AC'EROUS, a. [L. acerosus, chaffy, from acus, chaff or a point.] [.] 1. In botany, chaffy; resembling chaff. [.] 2. An acerous or acerose leaf is one which is linear and permanent, in form of a needle, as in pine.
509	acescency	[.] ACES'CENCY, n. [L. acescens, turning sour, from acesco. See Acid.] [.] A turning sour by spontaneous decomposition; a state of becoming sour, tart, or acid, and hence a being moderately sour.
510	acescent	[.] ACES'CENT, a. Turning sour; becoming tart or acid by spontaneous decomposition. Hence slightly sour; but the latter sense is usually expressed by acidulous or subacid.
511	aceste	[.] ACES'TE, n. In entomology, a species of papilio or butterfly, with subdentated wings, found in India.
512	acestis	[.] ACES'TIS, n. A factitious sort of chrysocolla, made of Cyprian verdigris, urine, and niter.
513	acetabulum	[.] ACETAB'ULUM, n. [L. from acetum, vinegar. See Acid.] Among the Romans a vinegar cruse or like vessel, and a measure of about one eighth of a pint. [.] 1. In anatomy, the cavity of a bone for receiving the protuberant end of another bone, and therefore forming ...
514	acetary	[.] AC'ETARY, n. [See Acid.] an acid pulpy substance in certain fruits, as the pear, inclosed in a congeries of small calculous bodies, towards the base of the fruit.
515	acetated	[.] AC'ETATED, a. [See Acid.] Combined with acetic acid, or radical vinegar.
516	acetic	[.] ACE'TIC, a. [See Acid.] A term used to denote a particular acid, acetic acid, the concentrated acid of vinegar, or radical vinegar. It may be obtained by exposing common vinegar to frost - the water freezing leaves the acetic acid, in a state of purity.
517	acetification	[.] ACETIFICA'TION, n. The act of making acetous or sour; or the operation of making vinegar.
518	acetify	[.] ACE'TIFY, v.t. To convert into acid or vinegar.
519	acetite	[.] AC'ETITE, [See Acid.] Neutral salt formed by the acetous acid, with a salifiable base; as the acetite of copper, aluminous acetite.
520	acetometer	[.] ACETOM'ETER, n. [L. acetum, vinegar, and measure.] [.] An instrument for ascertaining the strength of vinegar.
521	acetous	[.] ACE'TOUS, a. [See Acid.[ Sour; like or having the nature of vinegar. Acetous acid is the term used by chimists for distilled vinegar. This acid, in union with different bases, forms salts called acetites.
522	acetum	[.] ACE'TUM, n. [L. See Acid.] Vinegar, a sour liquor, obtained from vegetables dissolved in boiling water, and from fermented and spirituous liquors, by exposing them to heat and air. [.] This is called the acid or acetous fermentation
523	ache	[.] ACHE, v.i. ake. [Gr. to ache or be in pain. The primary sense is to be pressed. Perhaps the oriental to press.] [.] 1. To suffer pain; to have or be in pain, or in continued pain; as, the head aches. [.] 2. To suffer grief, or extreme grief; to be distressed; ...
524	achean	[.] ACHE'AN, a. Pertaining to Achaia in Greece, and a celebrated league or confederacy established there. This State lay on the gulf of Corinth, with Peloponnesus.
525	acherner	[.] ACHERN'ER, n. A star of the first magnitude in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus.
526	acherset	[.] ACH'ERSET, n. An ancient measure of corn, supposed to be about eight bushels.
527	achievable	[.] ACHIE'VABLE, a. [See Achieve.] That may be performed.
528	achievance	[.] ACHIE'VANCE, n. Performance.
529	achieve	[.] ACHIE'VE, v.t. [.] 1. To perform, or execute; to accomplish; to finish, or carry on to a final close. It is appropriately used for the effect of efforts made by the hand or bodily exertion, as deeds achieved by valor. [.] 2. To gain or obtain, as the result of ...
530	achieved	[.] ACHIE'VED, pp. Performed; obtained; accomplished.
531	achievement	[.] ACHIE'VEMENT, n. [.] 1. The performance of an action. [.] 2. A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, or boldness. [.] 3. An obtaining by exertion. [.] 4. An escutcheon or ensigns armorial, granted for the performance of a great or honorable ...
532	achiever	[.] ACHIE'VER, n. One who accomplishes a purpose, or obtains an object by his exertions.
533	achieving	[.] ACHIE'VING, ppr. Performing; executing; gaining.
534	aching	[.] A'CHING, ppr. Being in pain; suffering distress. [.] A'CHING, n. Pain; continued pain or distress.
535	achiote	[.] A'CHIOTE, n. The anotta, a tree, and a drug used for dyeing red. The bard of the tree makes good cordage, and the wood is used to excite fire by friction. [See Anotta.]
536	achor	[.] A'CHOR, n. [Gr., sordes capitis.] [.] 1. The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions, supposed to be a critical evacuation of acrimonious humors; a species of herpes. [.] 2. In mythology, the God of flies, said to have been worshipped by the Cyreneans, ...
537	achromatic	[.] ACHROMAT'IC, a. [Gr. priv. and color.] [.] Destitute of color. achromatic telescopes are formed of a combination of lenses, which separate the variously color rays of light to equal angles of divergence, at different angles of refraction of the mean ray. In this ...
538	acicular	[.] ACIC'ULAR, a. [L. acicula, Priscian, a needle, from Gr., L. a point. See Acid.] [.] In the shape of a needle; having sharp points like needles. [.] An acicular prism is when the crystals are slender and straight.
539	acicularly	[.] ACIC'ULARLY, adv. In the manner of needles, or prickles.
540	acid	[.] AC'ID, a. [L. acidus. See Edge.] [.] Sour, sharp or biting to the taste, having the taste of vinegar, as acid fruits or liquors. [.] AC'ID, n. In chimistry, acids are a class of substances, so denominated from their taste, or the sensation of sourness which ...
541	acidiferous	[.] ACIDIF'EROUS, a. [Acid and L. fero.] Containing acids, or an acid. [.] Acidiferous minerals are such as consist of an earth combined with an acid; as carbonate of lime, aluminite, &c.
542	acidifiable	[.] ACID'IFIABLE, a. [From Acidify.] [.] Capable of being converted into an acid, by union with an acidifying principle, without decomposition.
543	acidification	[.] ACIDIFICA'TION, n. The act or process of acidifying or changing into an acid.
544	acidified	[.] ACID'IFIED, pp. Made acid; converted into an acid.
545	acidifier	[.] ACID'IFIER, n. That which by combination forms an acid, as oxygen and hydrogen.
546	acidify	[.] ACID'IFY, v.t. [Acid and L. facio.] [.] To make acid; but appropriately to convert into an acid, chimically so called, by combination with any substance.
547	acidifying	[.] ACID'IFYING, ppr. Making acid; converting into an acid; having power to change into an acid. Oxygen is called the acidifying principle or element.
548	acidimeter	[.] ACIDIM'ETER, n. [Acid and Gr. measure.] [.] An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
549	acidity	[.] ACID'ITY, n. The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.
550	acidness	[.] AC'IDNESS, n. The quality of being sour; acidity.
551	acidulate	[.] ACID'ULATE, v.t. [L. acidulus, slightly sour; [.] To tinge with an acid; to make acid in a moderate degree.
552	acidulated	[.] ACID'ULATED, pp. Tinged with an acid; made slightly sour.
553	acidulating	[.] ACID'ULATING, ppr. Tinging with an acid.
554	acidule	[.] AC'IDULE, n. In chimistry, a compound base is supersaturated
555	acidulous	[.] ACID'ULOUS, a. [L. acidulus. See Acid.] [.] Slightly sour; sub-acid, or having an excess of acid; as acidulous sulphate.
556	acidulum	[.] ACID'ULUM, with acid; as, tartareous acidulum; oxalic acidulum.
557	acinaciform	[.] ACINAC'IFORM, a. [L. acinaces, a cimeter, Gr. and L. forma, form.] [.] In botany, formed like, or resembling a cimeter.
558	aciniform	...
559	acinose	[.] AC'INOSE, a. [From L. acinus. See Aciniform.]
560	acinous	[.] AC'INOUS,
561	acinus	[.] AC'INUS, n. [L.] In botany, one of the small grains, which compose the fruit of the blackberry, &c.
562	acipenser	[.] AC'IPENSER, a. In ichthyology, a genus of fishes, of the order of chondropterygii, having an obtuse head; the mouth under the head, retractile and without teeth. To this genus belong the sturgeon, sterlet, huso, &c.
563	acitli	[.] ACIT'LI, n. A name of the water hare, or great crested grebe or diver.
564	acknowledge	[.] ACKNOWL'EDGE, v.t. Aknol'edge, [ad and knowledge. See Know.] [.] 1. To own, avow or admit to be true, by a declaration of assent; as to acknowledge the being of a God. [.] 2. To own or notice with particular regard. [.] In all thy ways acknowledge God. Prov. ...
565	acknowledged	[.] ACKNOWL'EDGED, pp. Owned; confessed; noticed with regard or gratitude; received with approbation; owned before authority.
566	acknowledging	[.] ACKNOWL'EDGING, ppr. Owning; confessing; approving; grateful; but the latter sense is a gallicism, not to be used.
567	acknowledgment	[.] ACKNOWL'EDGMENT, n. [.] 1. The act of owning; confession; as, the acknowledgment of a fault. [.] 2. The owning, with approbation, or in the true character; as the acknowledgment of a God, or of a public minister. [.] 3. Concession; admission of the truth; ...
568	acme	[.] AC'ME, n. Ac'my [Gr.] [.] The top or highest point. It is used to denote the maturity or perfection of an animal. Among physicians, the crisis of a disease, or its utmost violence. Old medical writers divided the progress of a disease into four periods, the arche, ...
569	acne	[.] AC'NE, n. Ac'ny. [Gr.] [.] A small hard pimple or tubercle on the face.
570	acnestis	[.] ACNESTIS, n. [Gr. a priv. to rub or gnaw.] [.] That part of the spine in quadrupeds which extends from the metaphrenon, between the shoulder blades, to the loins; which the animal cannot reach to scratch.
571	aco	[.] AC'O, n. A Mediterranean fish, called also sarachus.
572	acolin	[.] AC'OLIN, n. a bird of the partridge kind in Cuba. Its breast and belly are white; its back and tail of a dusky yellow brown.
573	acolothist	[.] ACOL'OTHIST, n. [Gr.]
574	acolyte	[.] AC'OLYTE, [.] In the ancient church, one of the subordinate officers, who lighted the lamps, prepared the elements of the sacraments, attended the bishops, &c. An officer of the like character is still employed in the Romish Church.
575	aconite	[.] AC'ONITE, n. [L. aconitum; Gr.] [.] The herb wolf's bane, or monks-hood, a poisonous plant; and in poetry, used for poison in general.
576	acontias	[.] ACON'TIAS, n. [Gr. a dart.] [.] 1. A species of serpent, called dart-snake, or jaculum, from its manner of darting on its prey. This serpent is about three feet in length; of a light gray color with black spots, resembling eyes; the belly perfectly white. It is ...
577	acop	[.] ACOP' adv. [a and cope.] At the top.
578	acorn	[.] A'CORN, n. [.] 1. The seed or fruit of the oak; an oval nut which grows in a rough permanent cup. [.] The first settlers of Boston were reduced to the necessity of feeding on clams, muscles, ground nuts, and acorns. [.] 2. In marine language, a small ornamental ...
579	acorned	[.] A'CORNED, a. Furnished or loaded with acorns.
580	acorus	[.] A'CORUS, n. [L. from Gr..] [.] 1. Aromatic Calamus, sweet flag, or sweet rush. [.] 2. In natural history, blue coral, which grows in the form of a tree, on a rocky bottom, in some parts of the African seas. it is brought from the Camarones and Benin. [.] 3. ...
581	acotyledon	[.] ACOTYL'EDON, n. [Gr. a priv. a hollow.] [.] In botany, a plant whose seeds have no side lobes, or cotyledons.
582	acotyledonous	[.] ACOTYLED'ONOUS, a. Having no side lobes.
583	acoustic	[.] ACOUS'TIC, a. [Gr. to hear.] [.] Pertaining to the ears, to the sense of hearing, or to the doctrine of sounds. [.] Acoustic duct, in anatomy, the meatus auditorius, or external passage of the ear. [.] Acoustic vessels, in ancient theaters, were brazen tubes ...
584	acoustics	[.] ACOUS'TICS, n. [.] 1. The science of sounds, teaching their cause, nature and phenomena. This science is, by some writers, divided into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from the sonorous body to the ear; and catacoustics, which ...
585	acquaint	[.] ACQUA'INT, v.t. [Eng. can, and ken; which see.] [.] 1. To make known; to make fully or intimately known; to make familiar. [.] A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53. [.] 2. To inform; to communicate notice to; as a friend in the country acquaints ...
586	acquaintance	[.] ACQUAI'NTANCE, n. [.] 1. Familiar knowledge; a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial knowledge; as, I know the man, but have no acquaintance with him. Sometimes it denotes a more slight knowledge. [.] 2. A person ...
587	acquainted	[.] ACQUA'INTED, pp. Known; familiarly known; informed; having personal knowledge.
588	acquainting	[.] ACQUA'INTING, ppr. Making known to; giving notice, or information to.
589	acquest	[.] ACQUEST', n. [L. acquisitus, acquiro.] [.] 1. Acquisition; the thing gained. [.] 2. Conquest; a place acquired by force.
590	acquiesce	[.] ACQUIESCE, v.i. acquiess'. [L. acquiesco, of ad and quiesco, to be quiet; quies, rest.] [.] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent; usually implying previous opposition, uneasiness, or dislike, but ultimate ...
591	acquiescence	[.] ACQUIES'CENCE, n. A quiet assent; a silent submission, or submission with apparent content; distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; as, an acquiescence in the decisions of a court, or in the allotments ...
592	acquiescent	[.] ACQUIES'CENT, a. Resting satisfied; easy; submitting; disposed to submit.
593	acquiescing	[.] ACQUIES'CING, ppr. Quietly submitting; resting content.
594	acquirable	[.] ACQUI'RABLE, a. That may be acquired.
595	acquire	[.] ACQUI'RE, v.t. [L. acquiro, ad and quaero to seek, that is to follow, to press, to urge; acquiro signifies to pursue to the end or object; Heb. to seek, to make towards, to follow. The L. quaesivi, unless contracted, is probably from a different root. See class ...
596	acquired	[.] ACQUI'RED, pp. Gained, obtained, or received from art, labor, or other means, in distinction from those things which are bestowed by nature. Thus we say, abilities, natural and acquired. It implies title, or some permanence of possession.
597	acquirement	[.] ACQUI'REMENT, n. The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. It is used in opposition to natural gifts; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirement; genius, the gift of nature. it denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition ...
598	acquirer	[.] ACQUI'RER, n. A person who acquires.
599	acquiring	[.] ACQUI'RING, ppr. Gaining by labor or other means, something that has a degree of permanence in the possessor.
600	acquiry	[.] ACQUI'RY, n. Acquirement. [Not used.]
601	acquisite	[.] AC'QUISITE, a. s as z. Gained. [Not used.]
602	acquisition	[.] ACQUISI'TION, n. [L. acquisitio, from acquisitus, acquaesivi, which are given as the part. and pret. of acquiro; but quaesivi is probably from a different root.] [.] 1. The act of acquiring; as, a man takes pleasure inthe acquisition of property, as well as in the ...
603	acquisitive	[.] ACQUIS'ITIVE, a. that is acquired; acquired; [but improper.]
604	acquisitively	[.] ACQUIS'ITIVELY, adv. Noting acquirement, with to or for following.
605	acquist	[.] ACQUIST', n. See Acquest. [Not used.]
606	acquit	[.] ACQUIT', v.t. [L. cedo.] [.] To set free; to release or discharge from an obligation, accusation, guilt, censure, suspicion, or whatever lies upon a person as a charge or duty; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions. It is followed ...
607	acquitment	[.] ACQUIT'MENT, n. The act of acquitting, or state of being acquitted. [This word is superseded by acquittal.]
608	acquittal	[.] ACQUIT'TAL, n. A judicial setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense; as, by verdict of a jury, or sentence of a court. [.] The acquittal of a principal operates as an acquittal of the accessories.
609	acquittance	[.] ACQUIT'TANCE, n. [.] 1. A discharge or release from a debt. [.] 2. The writing, which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
610	acquitted	[.] ACQUIT'TED, pp. Set free, or judicially discharge from an accusation; released from a debt, duty, obligation, charge, or suspicion of guilt.
611	acquitting	[.] ACQUIT'TING, ppr. Setting free from accusation; releasing from a charge, obligation, or suspicion of guilt.
612	acrase	[.] ACRA'SE, v.t.
613	acrasy	[.] AC'RASY, n. [Gr. from a priv. constitution or temperament.] [.] In medical authors, an excess or predominancy of one quality above another, in mixture, or in the human constitution.
614	acraze	[.] ACRA'ZE, [.] 1. To make crazy; to infatuate. [Not in use.] [See Crazy.] [.] 2. To impair; to destroy. [Not in use.]
615	acre	[.] ACRE, n. a'ker. [Gr; Lat. ager. In these languages, the word retains its primitive sense, an open, plowed, or sowed field. In Eng. it retained its original signification, that of any open field, until it was limited to a definite quantity by statutes 31. Ed. 35 Ed ...
616	acred	[.] A'CRED, a. Possessing acres or landed property.
617	acrid	[.] AC'RID, a. [L. accr.] [.] Sharp; pungent; bitter; sharp or biting to the taste; acrimonious; as acrid salts.
618	acridness	[.] AC'RIDNESS, n. A sharp, bitter, pungent quality.
619	acrimonious	[.] ACRIMO'NIOUS, a. [.] 1. Sharp; bitter; corrosive; abounding with acrimony. [.] 2. Figuratively, sharpness or severity of temper; bitterness of expression proceeding from anger, ill-nature, or petulance.
620	acrimoniously	[.] ACRIMO'NIOUSLY, adv. With sharpness or bitterness.
621	acrisy	[.] AC'RISY, n. [Gr. a priv., judgment.] [.] A state or condition of which no right judgment can be formed; that of which no choice is made; matter in dispute; injudiciousness. [Little used.]
622	acritude	[.] AC'RITUDE, n. [See Acrid.] [.] An acrid quality; bitterness to the taste; biting heat.
623	acroamatic	[.] ACROAMAT'IC, a. [Gr. to hear.] [.] Abstruse; pertaining to deep learning; an epithet applied to the secret doctrines of Aristotle.
624	acroatic	[.] ACROAT'IC, a. [Gr.] [.] Abstruse; pertaining to deep learning; and opposed to exoteric. Aristotle's lectures were of two kinds, acroatic, acroamatic, or esoteric, which were delivered to a class of select disciples, who had been previously instructed in the elements ...
625	acroceraunian	[.] ACROCERAU'NIAN, a. [Gr. a summit, and thunder.] [.] An epithet applied to certain mountains between Epirus and Illyricum, in the 41st degree of latitude. They project into the Adriatic, and are so termed from being often struck with lightning.
626	acromion	[.] ACRO'MION, n. [Gr. highest, and shoulder.] [.] In anatomy, that part of the spine of the scapula, which receives the extreme part of the clavicle.
627	acronic	[.] ACRON'IC, a. [Gr. extreme and night.]
628	acronical	[.] ACRON'ICAL, [.] In astronomy, a term applied to the rising of a star at sun set, or its setting at sun rise. This rising or setting is called acronical. The word is opposed to cosmical.
629	acronically	[.] ACRON'ICALLY, adv. In an acronical manner; at the rising or setting of the sun.
630	acrospire	[.] AC'ROSPIRE, n. [Gr. highest, a spire, or spiral line.] [.] A shoot, or sprout of a seed; the plume, or plumule, so called from its spiral form.
631	acrospired	[.] AC'ROSPIRED, a. having a sprout, or having sprouted at both ends.
632	across	[.] ACROSS', prep. akraus'. [a and cross. See Cross.] [.] 1. From side to side, opposed to along, which is in the direction of the length; athwart; quite over; as, a bridge is laid across a river. [.] 2. Intersecting; passing over at any angle; as a line passing ...
633	acrostic	[.] ACROS'TIC, n. [Gr extremity or beginning, order, or verse.] [.] A composition in verse, in which the first letter of the lines, taken in order, form the name of a person, kingdom, city, &c., which is the subject of the composition, or some title or motto. [.] ACROS'TIC, ...
634	acrostically	[.] ACROS'TICALLY, adv. In the manner of an acrostic.
635	acroteleutic	[.] ACROTELEU'TIC, n. [Gr. extreme, and end.] [.] Among ecclesiastical writers, an appellation given to any thing added to the end of a psalm, or hymn; as a doxology.
636	acroter	[.] AC'ROTER, n. [Gr. a summit.] [.] In architecture, a small pedestal, usually with out a base, anciently placed at the two extremes, or in the middle of pediments or frontispieces, serving to support the statues, &c. It also signifies the figures placed as ornaments ...
637	acrothymion	[.] ACROTHYM'ION, n. [Gr. extreme, and thyme.] [.] Among physicians, a species of wart, with a narrow basis and broad top, having the color of thyme. It is call Thymus.
638	act	[.] ACT, v.i. [Gr., Lat. to urge, drive, lead, bring, do, perform, or in general to move, to exert force.] [.] 1. To exert power; as, the stomach acts upon food; the will acts upon the body in producing motion. [.] 2. To be in action or motion; to move [.] He hangs ...
639	acted	[.] ACT'ED, pp. Done; performed; represented on the stage.
640	actian	[.] AC'TIAN, a. Relating to Actium, a town and promontory of Epirus, as Actian games, which were instituted by Augustus, to celebrate his navel victory over Anthony, near that town, Sep. 2, B.C. 31. They were celebrated every five years. Hence, Actian years, reckoned ...
641	acting	[.] ACT'ING, ppr. Doing; performing; behaving; representing the character of another. [.] ACT'ING, n. Action; act of performing a part of a play.
642	actinolite	[.] AC'TINOLITE, n. [Gr. a ray, a stone.] [.] A mineral, called, by Werner, strahlstein, ray-stone, nearly allied to hornblend. It occurs in prismatic crystals, which are long, and incomplete, and sometimes extremely minute and even fibrous. Its prevailing color is ...
643	actinolitic	[.] ACTINOLIT'IC, a. Like or pertaining to actinolite.
644	action	[.] AC'TION, n. [L. actio. See Act.] [.] 1. Literally, a driving; hence, the state of acting or moving; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; or action is the effect of power exerted on one body by another; motion produced. Hence, action is ...
645	actionable	[.] AC'TIONABLE, a. That will bear a suit, or for which an action at law may be sustained; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
646	actionably	[.] AC'TIONABLY, adv. In a manner that subjects to legal process.
647	actionary	[.] AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, n. In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock.
648	actionist	[.] AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, n. In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock.
649	active	[.] ACT'IVE, a. [L. activus.] [.] 1. That has the power or quality of acting; that contains the principle of action, independent of any visible external force; as, attraction is an active power: or it may be defined, that communicates action or motion, opposed to passive, ...
650	actively	[.] ACT'IVELY, adv. in an active manner; by action; nimbly; briskly; also in an active signification, as a word is used actively.
651	activeness	[.] ACT'IVENESS, n. the quality of being active; the faculty of acting; nimbleness; quickness of motion; less used than activity.
652	activity	[.] ACTIV'ITY, n. The quality of being active; the active faculty; nimbleness; agility; also the habit of diligent and vigorous pursuit of business; as, a man of activity. It is applied to persons or things. [.] Sphere of activity, is the whole space in which the virtue, ...
653	actor	[.] ACT'OR, n. [.] 1. He that acts or performs; an active agent. [.] 2. He that represents a character or acts a part in a play; a stage player. [.] 3. Among civilians, an advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
654	actress	[.] ACT'RESS, n. A female who acts or performs, and especially, on the stage, or in a play.
655	actual	[.] ACT'UAL, a. [.] 1. Real or effective, or that exists truly and absolutely; as, actual heat, opposed to that, which is virtual or potential; actual cautery, or the burning by a red-hot iron, opposed to a cautery or caustic application, that may produce the same effect ...
656	actuality	[.] ACTUAL'ITY, n. Reality.
657	actually	[.] ACT'UALLY, adv. In fact; really; in truth.
658	actuary	[.] ACT'UARY, n. [L. actuarius.] [.] A register or clerk; a term of the civil law, and used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction; but in Europe used for a clerk or register generally.
659	actuate	[.] ACT'UATE, a. Put in action. [Little used.] [.] ACT'UATE, v.t. [from act.] [.] To put into action; to move or incite to action; as, men are actuated by motives, or passions. It seems to have been used formerly in the sense of invigorate, noting increase ...
660	actuated	[.] ACT'UATED, pp. Put in action; incited to action.
661	actuating	[.] ACT'UATING, ppr. Putting in action; inciting to action.
662	actuation	[.] ACTUA'TION, n. The state of being put in action; effectual operation.
663	actus	[.] ACT'US, n. Among the Romans, a measure in building equal to 120 Roman feet. In agriculture, the length of one furrow.
664	acuate	[.] AC'UATE, v.t. [L. acuo, to sharpen. See Acid.] [.] To sharpen; to make pungent, or corrosive. [Little used.]
665	acubene	[.] ACUBE'NE, n. A star of the fourth magnitude in the southern claw of Cancer.
666	acuition	[.] ACUI'TION, n. [from L. acuo, to sharpen.] [.] The sharpening of medicines to increase their effect.
667	aculeate	[.] ACU'LEATE, a. [L. aculeus, from acus, Gr. a point, and the diminutive. See Acid.] [.] 1. In botany, having prickles, or sharp points; pointed; used chiefly to denote prickles fixed in the bark, in distinction from thorns, which grow from the wood. [.] 2. In ...
668	aculei	[.] ACU'LEI, n. [L.] In botany and zoology, prickles or spines.
669	aculon	[.] AC'ULON, or AC'ULOS, n. [Gr. probably from ac, an oak.] [.] The fruit or acorn of the ilex, or scarlet oak.
670	aculos	[.] AC'ULON, or AC'ULOS, n. [Gr. probably from ac, an oak.] [.] The fruit or acorn of the ilex, or scarlet oak.
671	acumen	[.] ACU'MEN, n. [L. acumen, from acus or acuo.] [.] A sharp point; and figuratively, quickness of perception, the faculty of nice discrimination.
672	acuminate	[.] ACU'MINATE, a. [L. acuminatus, from acumen.] [.] Ending in a sharp point; pointed.
673	acuminated	[.] ACU'MINATED, a. Sharpened to a point.
674	acumination	[.] ACUMINA'TION, n. A sharpening; termination in a sharp point.
675	acupuncture	[.] ACUPUNC'TURE, n. [L. acus, needle, and punctura, or punctus, a pricking.] [.] Among the Chinese, a surgical operation, performed by pricking the part affected with a needle, as in head-aches and lethargies.
676	acus	[.] A'CUS, n. [L.] [.] 1. The needle-fish,or gar-fish. [.] 2. The ammodyte or sand eel. [.] 3. The oblong cimex.
677	acute	[.] ACU'TE, a. [L. acutus, sharp-pointed; Heb.] [.] 1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; opposed to blunt or obtuse. An acute angle in geometry, is one which is less than a right angle, or which subtends less than ninety degrees. An acute angled triangle ...
678	acutely	[.] ACU'TELY, adv. Sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
679	acuteness	[.] ACU'TENESS, n. [.] 1. Sharpness; but seldom used in this literal sense, as applied to material things. [.] 2. Figuratively, the faculty of nice discernment or perception; applied to the senses, or the understanding. By an acuteness of feeling, we perceive small ...
680	acutiator	[.] ACUTIA'TOR, n. In the middle ages, a person whose office was to sharpen instruments. Before the invention of fire-arms, such officers attended armies, to sharpen their instruments.
681	ad	[.] AD. A Latin preposition, signifying to. It is probably from Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. Eth. and Ar. To come near, to approach; from which root we may also deduce at. In composition, the last letter is usually changed into the first letter of the word to which it is prefixed. ...
682	adage	[.] AD'AGE, n. [L. adagium, or adagio] [.] A proverb; an old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a wise observation handed down from antiquity.
683	adagio	[.] ADA'GIO, n. [L. otium; Eng. ease.] [.] In music, a slow movement. As an adverb, slowly, leisurely, and with grace. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
684	adam	[.] AD'AM, n. In Heb., Man; primarily, the name of the human species, mankind; appropriately, the first Man, the progenitor of the human race. The word signifies form, shape, or suitable form, hence, species. It is evidently connected with Heb., to be like or equal, ...
685	adamant	...
686	adamantean	[.] ADAMANTE'AN, a. Hard as adamant.
687	adamantine	[.] ADAMANT'INE, a. Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; that cannot be broken, dissolved, or penetrated, as adamantine bonds, or chains. [.] Adamantine Spar, a genus of earths, of three varieties. The color of the first is gray, with shades of brown or ...
688	adamic	[.] AD'AMIC, a. Pertaining to Adam. Adamic earth, is the term given to common red clay, so called by means of a mistaken opinion that Adam means red earth.
689	adamites	[.] AD'AMITES, in Church history, a sect of visionaries, who pretended to establish a state of innocence, and like Adam, went naked. They abhorred marriage, holding it to be the effect of sin. Several attempts have been made to revive this sec; one as late as the 15th ...
690	adamitic	[.] ADAMIT'IC, Like the Adamites.
691	adansonia	[.] ADANSO'NIA, n. Ethiopian sour gourd, monkey's bread, of African calabash-tree. It is a tree of one species, called baobab, a native of Africa, and the largest of the vegetable kingdom. The stem rises not above twelve or fifteen feet, but is from sixty-five to seventy-eight ...
692	adapt	[.] ADAPT' v.t. [L. ad. and apto, to fit; Gr.] [.] To make suitable; to fit or suit; as, to adapt an instrument to its uses; we have provision adapted to our wants. It is applied to things material or immaterial.
693	adaptable	[.] ADAPT'ABLE, a. That may be adapted.
694	adaptation	[.] ADAPTA'TION, n. The act of making suitable, or the state of being suitable, or fit; fitness.
695	adapted	[.] ADAPT'ED, pp. Suited; made suitable; fitted.
696	adapter	[.] ADAPT'ER. See adopter.
697	adapting	[.] ADAPT'ING, ppr. Suiting; making fit.
698	adaption	[.] ADAP'TION, n. Adaptation; the act of fitting [Little used, and hardly legitimate.]
699	adaptness	[.] ADAPT'NESS, n. A state of being fitted. [Not used.]
700	adar	[.] A'DAR, n. a Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of February, and the beginning of March, the 12th of the sacred and 6th of the civil year; so named to become glorious, from the exuberance of vegetation, in that month, in Egypt and Palestine.
701	adarce	[.] ADAR'CE, n. [Gr.] [.] A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is lax and porous, like bastard spunge, and used to clear the skin in leprosy, tetters, &c.
702	adarcon	[.] ADAR'CON, n. In Jewish antiquity, a gold coin worth about three dollars and a third, or about fifteen shillings sterling.
703	adarme	[.] ADAR'ME, n. A Spanish weight, the sixteenth of an ounce. The Spanish ounce is seven per cent. Lighter than that of Paris.
704	adatis	[.] AD'ATIS, n. A muslin or species of cotton cloth from India. It is fine and clear; the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters wide.
705	adaunt	[.] AD'AUNT, v.t. To subdue. [Not used. See Daunt.]
706	adaw	[.] ADAW', v.t. To daunt; to subject. [Not used.]
707	adays	[.] ADA'YS, adv. On or in days; as in the phrase, now adays.
708	add	[.] ADD, v.t. [L. addo, from ad and do, to give.] [.] 1. To set or put together, join or unite, as one thing or sum to another, in an agreegate; as, add three to four, the sum is seven. [.] 2. To unite in idea or consideration; to subjoin. [.] To what has been ...
709	addarac	[.] AD'DARAC, n. Red orpiment.
710	addecimate	[.] ADDEC'IMATE, v.t. [L. ad and decimus, tenth.] [.] To take, or to ascertain tithes.
711	added	[.] ADD'ED, pp. Joined in place, in sum, in mass or aggregate, in number, in idea or consideration; united; put together.
712	addeem	[.] ADDEE'M, v.t. [See Deem.] To award; to sentence. [Little used.]
713	adder	[.] AD'DER, n. [L. natrix, a serpent.] [.] A venomous serpent or viper, of several species.
714	adder-fly	[.] AD'DER-FLY, n. a name of the dragon-fly or libellula; sometimes called adder-bolt.
715	adders-grass	[.] ADDER'S-GRASS, n. A plant about which serpents lurk.
716	adders-tongue	[.] ADDER'S-TONGUE, n. A plant whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
717	adders-wort	[.] ADDER'S-WORT, n. Snakeweed, so named from its supposed virtue in curing the bite of serpent.
718	addibility	[.] ADDIBIL'ITY, n. The possibility of being added.
719	addible	[.] AD'DIBLE, a. [See Add.] That may be added.
720	addice	[.] AD'DICE, obs. [See Adz.]
721	addict	[.] ADDICT', a. Addicted. [Not much used.]
722	addicted	[.] ADDICT'ED, pp. Devoted by customary practice.
723	addictedness	[.] ADDICT'EDNESS, n. The quality or state of being addicted.
724	addicting	[.] ADDICT'ING, ppr. Devoting time and attention; practicing customarily.
725	addiction	[.] ADDIC'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted. [.] His addiction was to courses vain. [.] 2. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service ...
726	adding	[.] ADD'ING, ppr. Joining; putting together; increasing.
727	additament	[.] ADDIT'AMENT, n. [L. additamentum, from additus and ment. See Add.] [.] An addition, or rather the thing added, as furniture in a house; any material mixed with the principal ingredient in a compound. Ancient anatomists gave the name to an epiphysis, or junction ...
728	addition	[.] ADDI'TION, n. [L. additio, from addo.] [.] 1. The act of adding, opposed to subtraction, or diminution; as, a sum is increased by addition. [.] 2. Any thing added, whether material or immaterial. [.] 3. In arithmetic, the uniting of two or more numbers in ...
729	additional	[.] ADDI'TIONAL, a. That is added. it is used by Bacon for addition; but improperly.
730	additionally	[.] ADDI'TIONALLY, adv. By way of addition.
731	additive	[.] ADD'ITIVE, a. That may be added, or that is to be added.
732	additory	[.] ADD'ITORY, a. That adds, or may add.
733	addle	[.] AD'DLE, a. [Heb. to fail.] [.] In a morbid state; putrid; applied to eggs. [.] Hence, barren, producing nothing. [.] His brains grow addle.
734	addle-pated	[.] AD'DLE-PATED, a. Having empty brains.
735	addled	[.] AD'DLED, a. Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
736	addoom	[.] ADDOOM', v.t. [See Doom.] To adjudge.
737	addorsed	[.] ADDORS'ED, a. [L. ad and dorsum,the back.] [.] In heraldry, having the backs turned to each other, as beasts.
738	address	[.] ADDRESS', v.t. [This is supposed to be from L. dirigo.] [.] 1. To prepare; to make suitable dispositions for. [.] Turnus addressed his men to single fight. [.] 2. To direct words or discourse; to apply to by words; as, to address a discourse to an assembly; ...
739	addressed	[.] ADDRESS'ED, pp. Spoken or applied to; directed; courted; consigned.
740	addresser	[.] ADDRESS'ER, n. One who addresses or petitions.
741	addressing	[.] ADDRESS'ING, ppr. Speaking or applying to, directing; courting; consigning.
742	adduce	[.] ADDU'CE, v.t. [L. adduco, to lead or bring to; ad and duco, to lead. See Duke.] [.] 1. To bring forward, present or offer; as, a witness was adduced to prove the fact. [.] 2. To cite, name or introduce; as, to adduce an authority or an argument.
743	adduced	[.] ADDU'CED, pp. Brought forward; cited; alledged in argument.
744	adducent	[.] ADDU'CENT, a. Bringing forward, or together; a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. [See adductor.]
745	adducible	[.] ADDU'CIBLE, a. That may be adduced.
746	adducing	[.] ADDU'CING, ppr. Bringing forward; citing in argument.
747	adduction	[.] ADDUC'TION n. The act of bringing forward.
748	adductive	[.] ADDUC'TIVE, a. That brings forward.
749	adductor	[.] ADDUC'TOR, n. [L.] [.] A muscle which draws one part of the body towards another; as the adductor oculi, which turns the eye towards the nose; the adductor pollicis manus, which draws the thumb towards the fingers.
750	addulce	[.] ADDULCE, v.t. adduls'. [L. ad and dulcis, sweet.] [.] To sweeten. [Not used.]
751	adeb	[.] AD'EB, n. An Egyptian weight of 210 okes, each of three rotolos, which is a weight of about two drams less than the English pound. But at Rosetta, the adeb is only 150 okes. [.]
752	adel	[.] ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.
753	adelantado	[.] ADELANTA'DO, n. A governor of a province; a lieutenant governor.
754	adeling	[.] AD'ELING, n. a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for noble, illustrious, and ling, young posterity.
755	adelite	[.] AD'ELITE, n. adelites or Almogenens, in Spain, were conjurers, who predicted the fortunes of individuals by the flight and singing of birds, and other accidental circumstances.
756	ademption	[.] ADEMP'TION, n. [L. adimo, to take away; of ad and emo, to take.] [.] In the civil law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like.
757	adenography	[.] ADENOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. a gland, and to describe.] [.] That part of anatomy which treats of the glands.
758	adenoid	[.] AD'ENOID, a. [Gr. a gland, and form.] [.] In the form of a gland; glandiform; glandulous; applied to the prostate glands.
759	adenological	[.] ADENOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the doctrine of the glands.
760	adenology	[.] ADENOL'OGY, n. [Gr. a gland, and discourse.] [.] In anatomy, the doctrine of the glands, their nature, and their uses.
761	adenos	[.] AD'ENOS, n. a species of cotton, from Aleppo, called also marine cotton.
762	adept	[.] ADEPT', n. [L. adeptus, obtained, from adipiscor.] [.] One fully skilled or well versed in any art. The term is borrowed from the Alchimists, who applied it to one who pretended to have found the philosopher's stone, or the panacea. [.] ADEPT', a. Well skilled; ...
763	adeption	[.] ADEP'TION, n. [L. adeptio.] [.] An obtaining; acquirement. Obs.
764	adequacy	[.] AD'EQUACY, n. [L. adaequatus, of ad and aquatus, made equal. [.] The state or quality of being equal to, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, "the adequacy of supply to the expenditure."
765	adequate	[.] AD'EQUATE, a. Equal; proportionate; correspondent to; fully sufficient; as, means adequate to the object; we have no adequate ideas of infinite power. [.] Adequate ideas, are such as exactly represent their object. [.] AD'EQUATE, v.t. To resemble exactly. ...
766	adequately	[.] AD'EQUATELY, adv. In an adequate manner; in exact proportion; with just correspondence, representation, or proportion; in a degree equal to the object.
767	adequateness	[.] AD'EQUATENESS, n. The state of being adequate; justness of proportion or representation; sufficiency.
768	adequation	[.] ADEQUA'TION, n. Adequateness. [not used.]
769	adessenarians	[.] ADESSENA'RIANS, n. [L. adesse, to be present.] [.] In church history, a sect who hold the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. They differ however as to this presence; some holding the body of Christ to be in the bread; ...
770	adfected	[.] ADFECT'ED, a. In algebra, compounded; consisting of different powers of the unknown quantity.
771	adfiliated	[.] ADFIL'IATED, a. Adopted as a son. [See Affiliate.]
772	adfiliation	[.] ADFILIA'TION, n. [L. ad and filius, a son.] [.] A Gothic custom, by which the children of a former marriage, are put upon the same footing with those of a succeeding one; still retained in some parts of Germany.
773	adhere	[.] ADHE'RE, v.i. [L. adhaereo, ad and haereo, to stick.] [.] 1. To stick to, as glutinous substances, or by natural growth; as, the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. [.] 2. To be joined, or held in contact; to cleave to. [.] 3. Figuratively, to hold to, be ...
774	adherence	[.] ADHE'RENCE, n. [.] 1. The quality or state of sticking or adhering. [.] 2. Figuratively, a being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; as, an adherence to a party or opinions.
775	adherency	[.] ADHE'RENCY, n. The same as adherence. In the sense of that which adhers, not legitimate.
776	adherent	[.] ADHE'RENT, a. Sticking, uniting, as glue or wax; united with, as an adherent mode in Locke, that is, a mode accidentally joined with an object, as wetness in a cloth. [.] ADHE'RENT, n. The person who adheres; one who follows a leader, party or profession; a follower, ...
777	adherently	[.] ADHE'RENTLY, adv. In an adherent manner.
778	adherer	[.] ADHE'RER, n. One that adheres; an adherent.
779	adhesion	[.] ADHE'SION, n. adhe'shun. [L. adhasio.] [.] 1. The act or state of sticking, or being united and attached to; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, and the like. Adhesion is generally used in a literal; adherence, in a metaphorical sense. [.] 2. ...
780	adhesive	[.] ADHE'SIVE, a. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances; apt or tending to adhere. Thus gums are adhesive.
781	adhesively	[.] ADHE'SIVELY, adv. In an adhesive manner.
782	adhesiveness	[.] ADHE'SIVENESS, n. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity.
783	adhibit	[.] ADHIB'IT, v.t. [L. adhibeo, ad and habeo, to have.] [.] To use, or apply. [Rarely used.]
784	adhibition	[.] ADHIBI'TION, n. Application; use.
785	adhil	[.] AD'HIL, n. A star of the sixth magnitude, upon the garment of Andromeda, under the last star in her foot.
786	adhortation	[.] ADHORTA'TION, n. [L. adhortatio.] [.] Advice. [Seldom used.]
787	adhortatory	[.] ADHORT'ATORY, a. [L. adhortor, to advise, ad and hortor.] [.] Advisory; containing counsel or warning.
788	adiaphorists	[.] ADIAPH'ORISTS, n. [Gr. indifferent.] [.] Moderate Lutherans; a name given in the sixteenth century, to certain men that followed Melancthon, who was more pacific than Luther [.] The adiaphorists held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent, which Luther condemned ...
789	adiaphorous	[.] ADIAPH'OROUS, a. Indifferent; neutral; a name given by Boyle to a spirit distilled from tartar, and some other vegetable substances, neither acid, nor alkaline, or not possessing the distinct character of any chimical body.
790	adieu	[.] ADIEU', Adu'. [.] Farewell; an expression of kind wishes at the parting of friends. [.] ADIEU', n. A farewell, or commendation to the care of God; as an everlasting adieu.
791	adipocerate	[.] ADIPOC'ERATE, v.t. To convert into adipocere.
792	adipoceration	[.] ADIPOCERA'TION,n. The act or process of being changed into adipocere.
793	adipocere	[.] AD'IPOCERE, n. [L. adeps, fat, and cera.] [.] A soft unctuous or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the muscular fibers of dead animal bodies are converted, when protected from atmospheric air, and under certain circumstances of temperature and humidity. ...
794	adipose	[.] AD'IPOSE, a. [L. adiposus, from adeps, fat. Heb. fat, gross, AD'IPOUS, stupid.] [.] Fat. The adipose membrane is the cellular membrane, containing the fat in its cells, and consisting of ductile membranes, connected by a sort of net-work. The adipose vein ...
795	adit	[.] ADIT, n. [L. aditus, from adeo, aditum, to approach, ad and eo, to go.] [.] An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. It is usually made in the side of a hill. ...
796	adjacency	[.] ADJA'CENCY, n. [L. adjaceo, to lie contiguous, from ad and jaceo, to lie.] [.] The state of lying close or contiguous; a bordering upon, or lying next to; as the adjacency of lands or buildings. In the sense of that which is adjacent, as used by Brown, it is not ...
797	adjacent	[.] ADJA'CENT, a. Lying near, close, or contiguous; bordering upon; as, a field adjacent to the highway. [.] ADJA'CENT, n. That which is next to or contiguous. [Little used.]
798	adject	[.] ADJECT' v.t. [L. adjicio, of ad and jacio, to throw.] [.] To add or put, as one thing to another.
799	adjection	[.] ADJEC'TION,n. The act of adding, or thing added. [Little used.]
800	adjectitious	[.] ADJECTI'TIOUS, a. Added
801	adjective	[.] AD'JECTIVE, n. In grammar, a word used with a noun, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. It is called also an attributive or attribute. ...
802	adjectively	[.] AD'JECTIVELY, adv. In the manner of an adjective; as, a word is used adjectively.
803	adjoin	[.] ADJOIN', v.t. [L. adjungo, ad and jungo. See Join.] [.] To join or unite to; to put to, by placing in contact; to unite, by fastening together with a joint, mortise, or knot. But in these transitive senses, it is rarely used. [See Join.] [.] ADJOIN', v.i. ...
804	adjoinant	[.] ADJOIN'ANT, a. Contiguous to. [Not used.]
805	adjoined	[.] ADJOIN'ED, pp. Joined to; united.
806	adjoining	[.] ADJOIN'ING, ppr. Joining to; adjacent; contiguous.
807	adjourn	[.] ADJOURN', v.t. Adjurn'. [.] Literally, to put off, or defer to another day; but now used to denote a formal intermission of business, a putting off to any future meeting of the same body, and appropriately used of public bodies or private commissioners, entrusted ...
808	adjourned	[.] ADJOURN'ED, pp. [.] 1. Put off, delayed, or deferred for a limited time. [.] 2. As an adjective, existing or held by adjournment, as an adjourned session of a court, opposed to stated or regular.
809	adjourning	[.] ADJOURN'ING, ppr. Deferring; suspending for a time; closing a session.
810	adjournment	[.] ADJOURN'MENT, n. [.] 1. The act of adjourning; as, in legislatures, the adjournment of one house is not an adjournment of the other. [.] 2. The putting off till another day or time specified, or without day; that is, the closing of a session of a public or official ...
811	adjudge	[.] ADJUDGE', v.t. [.] To decide, or determine, in the case of a controverted question; to decree by a judicial opinion; used appropriately of courts of law and equity. [.] The case was adjudged in Hilary term. [.] The prize was adjudged to the victor; a criminal ...
812	adjudged	[.] ADJUDG'ED, pp. Determined by judicial opinion; decreed; sentenced.
813	adjudging	[.] ADJUDG'ING, ppr. Determining by judicial opinion; sentencing.
814	adjudgment	[.] ADJUDG'MENT, n. The act of judging; sentenced.
815	adjudicate	[.] ADJU'DICATE, v.t. [L. adjudico, to give sentence. See Judge.] [.] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court. it has the sense of adjudge. [.] ADJU'DICATE, v.i. To try and determine judicially; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
816	adjudicated	[.] ADJU'DICATED, pp. Adjudged; tried and decided.
817	adjudicating	[.] ADJU'DICATING, ppr. Adjudging; trying and determining.
818	adjudication	[.] ADJUDICA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of adjudging; the act or process of trying and determining judicially; as a ship was taken and sent into port for adjudication. [.] 2. A judicial sentence; judgment or decision of a court. [.] Whose families were parties to ...
819	adjument	[.] AD'JUMENT, n. [L. adjumentum.] Help; support. [Not used.]
820	adjunct	[.] AD'JUNCT,n. [L. adjunctus, joined, from adjungo. See Join.] [.] 1. Something added to another, but not essentially a part of it; as, water absorbed by a cloth or spunge is its adjunct. Also a person joined to another. [.] 2. In metaphysics, a quality of the ...
821	adjunction	[.] ADJUNC'TION, n. The act of joining; the thing joined.
822	adjunctive	[.] ADJUNC'TIVE, a. Joining; having the quality of joining. [.] ADJUNC'TIVE, n. That which is joined.
823	adjunctively	[.] ADJUNC'TIVELY, adv. In an adjunctive manner.
824	adjunctly	[.] ADJUNCT'LY, adv. In connection with; consequently.
825	adjuration	[.] ADJURA'TION, n. [.] 1.The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse. [.] 2.The form of oath.
826	adjure	[.] ADJU'RE, v.t. [L. adjuro, to sweat solemnly, or compel one to swear; from ad and juro, to swear.] [.] 1. To charge, bind or command on oath, or under the penalty of a curse. [.] Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, cursed be the man before the Lord, that ...
827	adjured	[.] ADJU'RED, pp. Charged on oath, or with a denunciation of God's wrath; solemnly urged.
828	adjurer	[.] ADJU'RER, n. One that adjures; one that exacts an oath.
829	adjuring	[.] ADJU'RING, ppr. Charging on oath or on the penalty of a curse; beseeching with solemnity.
830	adjust	[.] ADJUST', v.t. [L. ad, and justus, just, exact. See Just.] [.] 1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent, or conformable; as, to adjust a garment to the body, an event to the prediction, or things to a standard. [.] 2. To put in order; to regulate or reduce ...
831	adjusted	[.] ADJUST'ED, pp. Made exact or conformable; reduced to a right form or standard settled.
832	adjuster	[.] ADJUST'ER, n. A person who adjusts; that which regulates.
833	adjusting	[.] ADJUST'ING, ppr. Reducing to due form; fitting; making exact or correspondent; settling.
834	adjustment	[.] ADJUST'MENT, n. The act of adjusting; regulation; a reducing to just form or order; a making fit or conformable; settlement.
835	adjutage	[.] AJ'UTAGE, or AD'JUTAGE, n. [.] A tube fitted to the mouth of a vessel, through which the water of a fountain is to be played.
836	adjutancy	[.] AD'JUTANCY, n. [See Adjutant.] The office of an adjutant; skillful arrangement.
837	adjutant	[.] AD'JUTANT, n. [L. adjutans, aiding; from adjuto, to assist; of ad and juvo, jutum, to help.] [.] In military affairs, an officer whose business is to assist the Major by receiving and communicating order. Each battalion of foot, and each regiment of horse has an ...
838	adjute	[.] ADJU'TE, v.t. To help. [Not used.]
839	adjutor	[.] ADJU'TOR, n. A helper. [Little used; its compound coadjutor is in common use.]
840	adjuvant	[.] ADJU'VANT, a. Helping; assisting.
841	adker	[.] 'ADKER, n. [.] 1. One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. [.] 2. A water newt.
842	adlegation	[.] ADLEGA'TION, n. [L. ad and legatio, an embassy, from lego, to send. See Legate.] [.] In the public law of the German Empire, a right claimed by the states, of joining their own ministers with those of the Emperor, in public treaties and negotiations, relating to ...
843	adlocution	[.] ADLOCU'TION, n. [See Allocation.]
844	admeasure	[.] ADMEAS'URE, v.t. admezh'ur. [ad and measure. See Measure.] [.] 1. To measure or ascertain dimensions, size or capacity; used for measure. [.] 2. To apportion; to assign to each claimant has right; as, to admeasure dower or common of pasture.
845	admeasured	[.] ADMEAS'URED, pp. Measured; apportioned.
846	admeasurement	[.] ADMEAS'UREMENT, n. [.] 1. The measuring of dimensions by a rule, as of a ship, cask, and the like. [.] 2. The measure of a thing, or dimensions ascertained. [.] In these uses the word is equivalent to measurement, mensuration and measure. [.] 3. The adjustment ...
847	admeasurer	[.] ADMEAS'URER, n. One that admeasures.
848	admeasuring	[.] ADMEAS'URING, ppr. Measuring; apportioning.
849	admensuration	[.] ADMENSURA'TION Is equivalent to admeasurement, but not much used. See Mensuration.]
850	adminicle	[.] ADMIN'ICLE, n. [L. adminiculum.] Help; support. [Not used.]
851	adminicular	[.] ADMINIC'ULAR, a. Supplying help; helpful.
852	administer	[.] ADMIN'ISTER, v.t. [L. administro, of ad and ministro, to serve or manage. See Minister.] [.] 1. To act as minister or chief agent, in managing public affairs, under laws or a constitution of government, as a king, president, or other supreme officer. it is used ...
853	administered	[.] ADMIN'ISTERED, pp. Executed; managed; governed; afforded; given; dispensed.
854	administerial	[.] ADMINISTE'RIAL, a. Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
855	administering	[.] ADMIN'ISTERING, ppr. Executing; carrying into effect; giving; dispensing.
856	administrate	[.] ADMIN'ISTRATE, In the place of administer, has been used, but is not well authorized.
857	administration	[.] ADMINISTRA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of administering; direction; management; government of public affairs; the conducting of any office or employment. [.] 2. The executive part of government, consisting in the exercise of the constitutional and legal powers, ...
858	administrative	[.] ADMIN'ISTRATIVE, a. That administers, or by which one administers.
859	administrator	[.] ADMINISTRA'TOR, n. [.] 1. a man who, by virtue of a commission from the Ordinary, Surrogate, Court of Probate, or other proper authority, has the charge of the goods and estate of one dying without a will. [.] 2. One who administers, or who directs, manages, ...
860	administratorship	[.] ADMINISTRA'TORSHIP, n. The office of an administrator.
861	administratrix	[.] ADMINISTRA'TRIX, n. A female who administers upon the estate of an intestate; also a female who administers government.
862	admirable	[.] AD'MIRABLE, a. [L. admirabilis.] [.] To be admired; worthy of admiration; having qualities to excite wonder, with approbation, esteem or reverence; used of persons or things; as, the admirable structure of the body, or of the universe.
863	admirableness	[.] AD'MIRABLENESS, n. The quality of being admirable; the power of exciting admiration.
864	admirably	[.] AD'MIRABLY, adv. In a manner to excite wonder, mingled with approbation, esteem or veneration.
865	admiral	[.] AD'MIRAL, n. [In the Latin of the middle ages. Amira, Amiras, Admiralis, an Emir; Heb. to speak. The terminating syllable of admiral may be from the sea. This word is said to have been introduced in Europe by the Turks, Genoese or Venetains, in the 12th or 13th ...
866	admiralship	[.] AD'MIRALSHIP, n. The office or power of an admiral. [Little used.]
867	admiralty	[.] AD'MIRALTY, n. In Great Britain, the office of Lord High Admiral. This office is discharged by one person, or by Commissioners, called Lords of the Admiralty; usually seven in number. [.] The admiralty court, or court of admiralty, is the supreme court for the trial ...
868	admiration	[.] ADMIRA'TION, n. Wonder mingled with pleasing emotions, as approbation, esteem, love or veneration; a compound emotion excited by something novel, rare, great, or excellent; applied to persons and their works. It often includes a slight degree of surprise. Thus, we ...
869	admirative	[.] ADMI'RATIVE, n. A note of admiration, thus! [Not used.]
870	admire	[.] ADMI'RE, v.t. [L. admiror, ad and miror, to wonder; demiror. See Moor and Mar.] [.] 1. To regard with wonder or surprise, mingled with approbation, esteem, reverence or affection. [.] When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and be admired in all them ...
871	admired	[.] ADMI'RED, pp. Regarded with wonder, mingled with pleasurable sensations, as esteem, love or reverence.
872	admirer	[.] ADMI'RER, n. One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
873	admiring	[.] ADMI'RING, ppr. Regarding with wonder united with love or esteem.
874	admiringly	[.] ADMI'RINGLY, adv. With admiration; in the manner of an admirer.
875	admissibility	[.] ADMISSIBIL'ITY, n. The quality of being admissable.
876	admissible	[.] ADMISS'IBLE, a. [See admit.] That may be admitted, allowed or conceded; as, the testimony is admissible.
877	admission	[.] ADMISS'ION, n. [L. admissio.] [.] 1. The act or practice of admitting, as the admission of aliens into our country; also, the state of being admitted. [.] 2. Admittancep power or permission to enter; entrance; access; power to approach; as, our laws give to foreigners ...
878	admit	[.] ADMIT', v.t. [L. admitto, from ad and mitto, to send.] [.] 1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance; whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration; as to admit a student into college; to admit a serious thought into the mind. [.] 2. ...
879	admittable	[.] ADMIT'TABLE, a. That may be admitted or allowed.
880	admittance	[.] ADMIT'TANCE, n. [.] 1. The act of admitting; allowance. More usually, [.] 2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; and hence, actual entrance; as, he gained admittance into the church. [.] 3. Concession; admission; allowance; as the admittance ...
881	admitted	[.] ADMIT'TED, pp. Permitted to enter or approach; allowed; granted; conceded.
882	admitter	[.] ADMIT'TER, n. He that admits.
883	admitting	[.] ADMIT'TING, ppr. Permitting to enter or approach; allowing; conceding.
884	admix	[.] ADMIX', v.t. To mingle with something else. [See Mix.]
885	admixtion	[.] ADMIX'TION, n. admixchun, [L. admixtio, or admistio; of ad and misceo, to mix. See Mix.] [.] A mingling of bodies; a union by mixing different substances together. It differs from composition or chimical combination; for admixtion does not alter the nature of ...
886	admixture	[.] ADMIX'TURE, n. [From admix.] [.] The substance mingled with another; sometimes the act of mixture. We say, an admixture of sulphur with alum, or the admixture of different bodies.
887	admonish	[.] ADMON'ISH, v.t. [L. admoneo, ad and moneo, to teach, warn, admonish.] [.] 1. To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness. [.] Count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2Thess. 3. [.] 2. To counsel against wrong practices; to caution ...
888	admonished	[.] ADMON'ISHED, pp. Reproved; advised; warned; instructed.
889	admonisher	[.] ADMON'ISHER, n. One who reproves or counsels.
890	admonishing	[.] ADMON'ISHING, ppr. Reproving; warning; counseling; directing.
891	admonishment	[.] ADMON'ISHMENT, n. Admonition.
892	admonition	[.] ADMONI'TION, n. Gentle reproof; counseling against a fault; instruction in duties; caution; direction. Tit. 3. 1Cor. 10. In church discipline, public or private reproof to reclaim an offender; a step preliminary to excommunication.
893	admonitioner	[.] ADMONI'TIONER, n. A dispenser of admonitions.
894	admonitive	[.] ADMON'ITIVE, a. Containing admonition.
895	admonitor	[.] ADMON'ITOR, n. An admonisher, a monitor.
896	admonitory	[.] ADMON'ITORY, a. Containing admonition; that admonishes.
897	admortization	[.] ADMORTIZA'TION, n. The reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain. [See Mortmain.]
898	admove	[.] ADMOVE', v.t. [L. admoveo.] [.] To move to; to bring one thing to another. [Little used.]
899	adnascent	[.] ADNAS'CENT, a. [L. ad and nascens, growing.]
900	adnata	[.] ADNA'TA, n. [L. ad and natus, grown from nascor, to grow.] [.] 1. In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is also called albuginea, and is sometimes confounded with the conjunctive. It lies between the sclerotica, and conjunctiva. [.] 2. Such parts of ...
901	adnate	[.] AD'NATE, a. [L. ad and natus, grown.] [.] In botany, pressing close to the stem, or growing to it.
902	adnoun	[.] AD'NOUN, n. [ad and noun.] [.] In grammar, an adjective, or attribute. [Little used.]
903	ado	[.] ADO', n. [.] Bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado.
904	adolescence	[.] ADOLES'CENCE, n. [L. adolescens, growing, of ad and olesco, to grow, from oleo. Heb. to ascend.] [.] The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between childhood and manhood.
905	adolescent	[.] ADOLES'CENT, a. Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood.
906	adonean	[.] ADONE'AN, a. Pertaining to Adonis. [.] Fair Adonean Venus.
907	adonia	[.] ADO'NIA, n. Festivals celebrated anciently in honor of Adonis, by females, who spent two days in lamentations and infamous pleasures.
908	adonic	[.] ADO'NIC, a. Adonic Verse, a short verse, in which the death of Adonis was bewailed. It consists of a dactyl and spondee or trochee. [.] ADO'NIC, n. An Adonic verse.
909	adonis	[.] ADO'NIS, n. In mythology, the favorite of Venus, said to be the son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus. He was fond of hunting, and received a mortal wound from the tusk of a wild boar. Venus lamented his death, and changed him into the flower, anemony.
910	adonists	[.] ADO'NISTS, n. [Heb. Lord, a scriptural title of the Supreme Being.] [.] Among critics, a sect or party who maintain that the Hebrew points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of the word Jehovah, are not the natural points belonging to that word, and that they do ...
911	adopt	[.] ADOPT', v.t. [L. adopto, of ad and opto, to desire or choose. See Option.] [.] 1. To take a stranger into one's family, as son and heir; to take one who is not a child, and treat him as one, giving him a title to the privileges and rights of a child. [.] 2. ...
912	adopted	[.] ADOPT'ED, pp. Taken as one's own; received as son and heir; selected for use.
913	adoptedly	[.] ADOPT'EDLY, adv. In the manner of something adopted.
914	adopter	[.] ADOPT'ER, n. [.] 1. One who adopts. [.] 2. In chimistry, a large round receiver, with two necks, diametrically opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give ...
915	adopting	[.] ADOPT'ING, ppr. Taking a stranger as a son; taking as one's own.
916	adoption	[.] ADOP'TION, n. [L. adoptio.] [.] 1. The act of adopting, or the state of being adopted; the taking and treating of a stranger as one's own child. [.] 2. The receiving as one's own, what is new or not natural. [.] 3. God's taking the sinful children of men into ...
917	adoptive	[.] ADOPT'IVE, a. [L. adoptivus.] [.] That adopts, as an adoptive father; or that is adopted, as an adoptive son. [.] ADOPT'IVE, n. A person or thing adopted.
918	adorable	[.] ADO'RABLE, a. That ought to be adored; worth of divine honors. In popular use, worthy of the utmost love or respect.
919	adorableness	[.] ADO'RABLENESS, n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
920	adorably	[.] ADO'RABLY, adv. In a manner worthy of adoration.
921	adoration	[.] ADORA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of paying honors to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a God. [.] Adoration consists in external homage, accompanied with the highest reverence. It is used for the act of praying, or preferring requests ...
922	adore	[.] ADO'RE, v.t. [L. adoro. In Heb. to honor, reverence or glorify to adorn; to be magnificent or glorious, to magnify, to glorify. This word is usually referred to the Latin ad orare, to carry to one's mouth; ad and os, oris; as, in order to kiss one's hand, the hand ...
923	adored	[.] ADO'RED, pp. Worshipped as divine; highly reverenced; greatly beloved.
924	adorer	[.] ADO'RER, n. One who worships, or honors as divine; in popular language, an admiring lover.
925	adoring	[.] ADO'RING, ppr. or a. Honoring or addressing as divine; regarding with great love or reverence.
926	adorn	[.] ADORN', v.t. [L. adorno, ad and orno, to deck, or beautify, to dress, set off, extol, furnish. [.] 1. To deck or decorate; to make beautiful; to add to beauty by dress; to deck with external ornaments. [.] A bride adorneth, herself with jewels. Isa. 6. [.] To ...
927	adorned	[.] ADORN'ED, pp. Decked; decorated; embellished.
928	adorning	[.] ADORN'ING, ppr. Ornamenting; decorating; displaying beauty. [.] ADORN'ING, n. Ornament; decoration. 1Peter 3.
929	adosculation	[.] ADOSCULA'TION, n. [L. ad and osculatio, a kissing, from osculum, a kiss, or mouth.] [.] The impregnation of plants by the falling of the farina on the pistils. [.] Adosculation is also defined to be the inserting of one part of a plant into another.
930	adossed	[.] ADOS'SED, a. [.] In heraldry, denoting two figures or bearings place back to back.
931	adown	[.] ADOWN', prep. [a and down.] From a higher to a lower situation; downwards; implying descent. [.] ADOWN', adv. Down; on the ground; at the bottom.
932	adread	[.] ADREAD', a. Adred'. [See Dread.] Affected by dread. Obs.
933	adriatic	[.] ADRIAT'IC, a. [L. Aldria, or Hadria, the gulf of Venice.] [.] Pertaining to the Gulf, called, from Venice, the Venetian Gulf. [.] ADRIAT'IC, n. The Venetian Gulf; a Gulf that washes the eastern side of Italy.
934	adrift	[.] ADRIFT', a. or adv. [See Drive. Adrift is the participle of the verb.] [.] Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift.
935	adrogation	[.] ADROGA'TION, n. [L. ad and rogo, to ask. See Interrogate and Rogation.] [.] A species of adoption in ancient Rome, by which a person, capable of choosing for himself, was admitted into the relation of a son. So called from the questions put to the parties.
936	adroit	[.] ADROIT', [L. directus, dirigo. See Right.] [.] Dextrous; skillful; active in the use of the hands, and figuratively, in the exercise of the mental faculties; ingenious; ready in invention or execution.
937	adroitly	[.] ADROIT'LY, adv. With dexterity; in a ready skillful manner.
938	adroitness	[.] ADROIT'NESS, n. Dexterity; readiness in the use of the limbs, or of the mental faculties.
939	adry	[.] ADRY', a. [.] Thirsty, in want of drink. [This adjective always follows the noun.]
940	adscititious	[.] ADSCITI'TIOUS, a. [L. ascititius, from adscisco, ascisco, to add or join.] [.] Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite. [.] ADSCITI'TIOUS, n. [L. adstrictio, astrictio, of ad and stringo, to strain or bind fast. See Strict.] [.] A binding ...
941	adstrictory	[.] ADSTRIC'TORY, ADSTRING'ENT. [See Astringent.]
942	adstringent	[.] ADSTRIC'TORY, ADSTRING'ENT. [See Astringent.]
943	adularia	[.] ADULA'RIA, n. [From Adula, the summit of a Swiss mountain.] [.] A mineral deemed the most perfect variety of felspar; its color white, or with a tinge of green, yellow, or red.
944	adulation	[.] ADULA'TION, n. [L. adulatio.] [.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited; high compliment.
945	adulator	[.] AD'ULATOR, n. A flatterer; one who offers praise servilely.
946	adulatory	[.] AD'ULATORY, a. Flattering; containing excessive praise or compliments; servilely praising; as, an adulatory address.
947	adulatress	[.] AD'ULATRESS, n. A female that flatters with servility.
948	adult	[.] ADULT', n. [L. adultus, grown to maturity, from oleo, to grow; Heb. to ascend.] [.] Having arrived at mature years, or to full size and strength; as an adult person or plant. [.] ADULT', n. A person grown to full size and strength, or to the years of manhood. ...
949	adulterant	[.] ADUL'TERANT, n. The person or thing that adulterates.
950	adulterate	[.] ADUL'TERATE, v.t. [L. adultero, from adulter, mixed, or an adulterer; ad and alter, other.] [.] To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of baser materials; as, to adulterate liquors, or the coin of a country. [.] ADUL'TERATE, v.i. To commit adultery. ...
951	adulterated	[.] ADUL'TERATED, pp. Corrupted; debased by a mixture with something of less value.
952	adulterateness	[.] ADUL'TERATENESS, n. The quality or state of being debased or counterfeit.
953	adulterating	[.] ADUL'TERATING, ppr. Debasing; corrupting; counterfeiting.
954	adulteration	[.] ADULTERA'TION, n. The act of adulterating, or the state of being adulterated, corrupted or debased by foreign mixture. [.] The adulteration of liquors, of drugs, and even of bread and beer, is common, but a scandalous crime.
955	adulterer	[.] ADUL'TERER, n. [L. adulter.] [.] 1. A man guilty of adultery; a man who has sexual commerce with any married woman, except his wife. [See Adultery.] [.] 2. In scripture, an idolator. Ezek. 23. [.] 3. An apostate from the true faith, or one who violates his ...
956	adulteress	[.] ADUL'TERESS, n. A married woman guilty of incontinence.
957	adulterine	[.] ADUL'TERINE, a. Proceeding from adulterous commerce; spurious.
958	adulterous	[.] ADUL'TEROUS, a. [.] 1. Guilty of adultery; pertaining to adultery. [.] 2. In scripture, idolatrous, very wicked. Mat. 12 and 16. Mark, 8.
959	adultery	[.] ADUL'TERY, n. [L. adulterium. See Adulterate.] [.] 1. Violation of the marriage bed; a crime, or a civil injury, which introduces, or may introduce, into a family, a spurious offspring. [.] By the laws of Connecticut, the sexual intercourse of any man, with a ...
960	adultness	[.] ADULT'NESS, n. The state of being adult.
961	adumbrant	[.] ADUM'BRANT, a. [See Adumbrate.] Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance.
962	adumbrate	[.] ADUM'BRATE, v.t. [L. adumbro, to shade, from umbra, a shade.] [.] To give a faint shadow, or slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like a shadow.
963	adumbration	[.] ADUMBRA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of making a shadow or faint resemblance. [.] 2. A faint sketch; an imperfect representation of a thing. [.] 3. In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field.
964	adunation	[.] ADUNA'TION, n. [L. ad and unus, unio,.] [.] The state of being united; union. [Not used.]
965	aduncity	[.] ADUN'CITY, n. [L. aduncitas, hookedness, of ad and uncus, a hook.] [.] Hookedness; a bending in form of a hook.
966	aduncous	[.] ADUN'COUS, a. [L. aduncus.] [.] Hooked; bent or made in the form of a hook.
967	adunque	[.] ADUNQUE, a. Adunk'. Hooked. [Not used.]
968	adure	[.] ADU'RE, v.t. [L. aduro, ad and uro, to burn.] [.] To burn up. [Not used.]
969	adust	[.] ADUST', a. [L. adustus, burnt, the participle of aduro, to burn.] [.] Burnt; scorched; become dry by heat; hot and fiery.
970	adusted	[.] ADUST'ED, a. Become hot and dry; burnt; scorched.
971	adustion	[.] ADUS'TION, n. The act of burning, scorching, or heating to dryness; a state of being thus heated or dried.
972	advance	[.] ADV'ANCE, v.t. adv'ans. [Heb. surface, face; whence.] [.] 1. To bring forward; to move further in front. Hence, [.] 2. To promote; to raise to a higher rank; as, to advance one from the bar to the bench. [.] 3. To improve or make better, which is considered ...
973	advanced	[.] ADV'ANCED, pp. Moved forward; promoted; improved; furnished beforehand; situated in front, or before the rest; also old, having reached the decline of life; as, advanced in years; an advanced age.
974	advancement	[.] ADV'ANCEMENT, n. [.] 1. The act of moving forward or proceeding. [.] 2. The state of being advanced; preferment; promotion, in rank or excellence; the act of promoting. [.] 3. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. [.] 4. Provision made by a parent for a child, ...
975	advancer	[.] ADV'ANCER, n. One who advances; a promoter. [.] Among sportsmen, a start or branch of a buck's attire, between the back antler and the palm.
976	advancing	[.] ADV'ANCING, ppr. Moving forward; proceeding; promoting; raising to higher rank or excellence; improving; supplying beforehand, as on loan, or as stock in trade.
977	advancive	[.] ADV'ANCIVE, a. Tending to advance, or promote.
978	advantage	[.] ADV'ANTAGE, n. [.] 1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation. [.] The enemy had the advantage of elevated ground. [.] 2. Benefit; gain; profit. [.] What advantage will it be to thee? Job 35. [.] There ...
979	advantage-ground	[.] ADV'ANTAGE-GROUND, n. Ground that gives advantage or superiority; a state that gives superior advantages for annoyance or resistance.
980	advantageable	[.] ADV'ANTAGEABLE, a. Profitable; convenient; gainful. [Little used.]
981	advantaged	[.] ADV'ANTAGED, pp. Benefitted; promoted.
982	advantageous	[.] ADVANTA'GEOUS, a. Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.
983	advantageously	[.] ADVANTA'GEOUSLY, adv. In an advantageous manner; profitably; usefully; conveniently.
984	advantageousness	[.] ADVANTA'GEOUSNESS, n. The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience.
985	advantaging	[.] ADV'ANTAGING, ppr. Profiting; benefiting.
986	advene	[.] ADVE'NE, v.i. [L. advenio, to come to, ad and venio.] [.] To accede, or come to; to be added to, or become a part of, though not essential. [Little used.]
987	advenient	[.] ADVE'NIENT, a. Advening; coming from outward causes.
988	advent	[.] AD'VENT, n. [L. adventus, from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.] [.] A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after ...
989	adventine	[.] ADVENT'INE, a. Adventitious. [Not used.]
990	adventitious	[.] ADVENTI'TIOUS, a. [L. adventitius, from advenio. See Advent.] [.] Added extrinsically; accidental; not essentially inherent; casual; foreign. [.] Diseases of continuance get an adventitious strength from custom.
991	adventitiously	[.] ADVENTI'TIOUSLY, adv. Accidentally.
992	adventive	[.] ADVENT'IVE, a. Accidental; adventitious. [Little used.]
993	adventual	[.] ADVENT'UAL, a. Relating to the season of advent.
994	adventure	[.] ADVENT'URE, n. [See Advent.] [.] 1. Hazard; risk; chance; that of which one has no direction; as, at all adventures, that is, at all hazards. [See Venture.] [.] 2. An enterprize of hazard; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the ...
995	adventured	[.] ADVENT'URED, pp. Put to hazard; ventured; risked.
996	adventurer	[.] ADVENT'URER, n. [.] 1. One who hazards, or puts something at risk, as merchant-adventurers. [.] 2. One who seeks occasions of chance, or attempts bold, novel, or extraordinary enterprizes.
997	adventuresome	[.] ADVENT'URESOME, a. Bold; daring; incurring hazard. [See Venturesome.]
998	adventuresomeness	[.] ADVENT'URESOMENESS, n. The quality of being bold and venturesome.
999	adventuring	[.] ADVENT'URING, ppr. Putting to risk; hazarding.
1000	adventurous	[.] ADVENT'UROUS, a. [.] 1. Inclined or willing to incur hazard; bold to encounter danger; daring; courageous; enterprizing; applied to persons. [.] 2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage" applied to things; as, an adventurous ...
1001	adventurously	[.] ADVENT'UROUSLY, adv. Boldly; daringly; in a manner to incur hazard.
1002	adventurousness	[.] ADVENT'UROUSNESS, n. The act or quality of being adventurous.
1003	adverb	[.] AD'VERB, n. [L. adverbium, of ad and verbum, to a verb.] [.] In grammar, a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective or attribute, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. This part of speech might be more significantly ...
1004	adverbial	[.] ADVERB'IAL, a. Pertaining to an adverb.
1005	adverbially	[.] ADVERB'IALLY, adv. In the manner of an adverb.
1006	adversaria	[.] ADVERSA'RIA, n. [L. from adversus. See Adverse.] [.] Among the ancients, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other. A commonplace book.
1007	adversary	[.] AD'VERSARY, n. [See Adverse.] [.] 1. An enemy or foe; one who has enmity at heart. [.] The Lord shall take vengeance on his adversaries. Nah. 1. [.] In scripture, Satan is called THE adversary, by way of eminence. 1Peter 5. [.] 2. An opponent or antagonist, ...
1008	adversative	[.] ADVERS'ATIVE, a. Noting some difference, contrariety, or opposition; as, John is an honest man, but a fanatic. Here but is called an adversative conjunction. This denomination however is not always correct; for but does not always denote opposition, but something ...
1009	adverse	[.] AD'VERSE, a. [L. adversus, opposite; of ad and versus, turned; from verto, to turn. See Advert. This word was formerly accented, by some authors, on the last syllable; but the accent is now settled on the first.] [.] 1. Opposite; opposing; acting in a contrary ...
1010	adversely	[.] AD'VERSELY, adv. In an adverse manner; oppositely; unfortunately; unprosperously; in a manner contrary to desire or success.
1011	adverseness	[.] AD'VERSENESS, n. Opposition; unprosperousness.
1012	adversity	[.] ADVERS'ITY, n. An event, or series of events, which oppose success or desire; misfortune; calamity; affliction; distress; state of unhappiness. [.] In the day of adversity, consider. Eccl. 7. [.] Ye have rejected God, who saved you out of all you adversities. ...
1013	advert	[.] ADVERT', v.i. [L. adverto, of ad and verto, to turn.] [.] To turn the mind or attention to; to regard, observe, or notice: with to; as, he adverted to what was said, or to a circumstance that occurred.
1014	adverted	[.] ADVERT'ED, pp. Attended to; regarded; with to.
1015	advertence	[.] ADVERT'ENCE,
1016	advertency	[.] ADVERT'ENCY, n. A direction of the mind to; attention; notice; regard; consideration; heedfulness. [.]
1017	advertent	[.] ADVERT'ENT, a. Attentive; heedful.
1018	adverting	[.] ADVERT'ING, ppr. Attending to; regarding; observing.
1019	advertise	[.] ADVERTI'SE, v.t. s as z. [See Advert.] [.] 1. To inform; to give notice, advice or intelligence to, whether of a past or present event, or of something future. [.] I will advertise thee what this people will do to thy people in the latter day. Num. 24. [.] I ...
1020	advertised	[.] ADVERTI'SED, pp. Informed; notified; warned; used of persons: published; made known; used of things.
1021	advertisement	[.] ADVER'TISEMENT, n. Information; admonition, notice given. More generally, a publication intended to give notice; this may be, by a short account printed in a newspaper, or by a written account posted, or otherwise made public.
1022	advertiser	[.] ADVERTI'SER, n. One who advertises. This title is often given to public prints.
1023	advertising	[.] ADVERTI'SING, ppr. [.] 1. Informing; giving notice; publishing notice. [.] 2. a. Furnishing advertisements; as, advertising customers. [.] 3. In the sense of monitory, or active in giving intelligence, as used by Shakespeare. [Not now used.]
1024	advice	[.] ADVI'CE, n. [L. viso, to see, to visit.] [.] 1. Counsel; an opinion recommended, or offered, as worthy to be followed. [.] What advice give ye? 2Ch. 10. [.] With good advice make war. Prov. 20. [.] We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. [.] 2. ...
1025	advisable	[.] ADVI'SABLE, a. [See Advise.] [.] 1. Proper to be advised; prudent; expedient; proper to be done or practiced. [.] It is not advisable to proceed, at this time, to a choice of officers. [.] 2. Open to advice.
1026	advisableness	[.] ADVI'SABLENESS, n. The quality of being advisable or expedient.
1027	advise	[.] ADVI'SE, v.t. s as z. [See Advice.] [.] 1. To give counsel to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; as, I advise you to be cautious of speculation. [.] 2. To give information; to communicate notice; to make acquainted with; followed by ...
1028	advised	[.] ADVI'SED, pp. [.] 1. Informed; counseled; also cautious; prudent; acting with deliberation. [.] Let him be advised in his answers. [.] With the well advised is wisdom. Prov. 13. [.] 2. Done, formed, or taken with advice or deliberation; intended; as, an ...
1029	advisedly	[.] ADVI'SEDLY, adv. With deliberation or advice; heedfully; purposely; by design; as, an enterprize advisedly undertaken.
1030	advisedness	[.] ADVI'SEDNESS, n. Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure.
1031	advisement	[.] ADVI'SEMENT, n. [.] 1. Counsel; information; circumspection. [.] 2. Consultation. [.] The action standing continued nisi for advisement.
1032	adviser	[.] ADVI'SER, n. One who gives advice or admonition; also, in a bad sense, one who instigates or persuades.
1033	advising	[.] ADVI'SING, ppr. Giving counsel.
1034	advisory	[.] ADVI'SORY, a. [.] 1. Having power to advise. [.] The general association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. [.] 2. Containing advice; as, their opinion is merely advisory.
1035	advocacy	[.] AD'VOCACY, n. [.] 1. The act of pleading for; intercession. [.] 2. Judicial pleading; law-suit.
1036	advocate	[.] AD'VOCATE, n. [L. advocatus, from advoco, to call for, to plead for; of ad and voco, to call. See Vocal.] [.] 1. Advocate, in its primary sense, signifies, one who pleads the cause of another in a court of civil law. Hence, [.] 2. One who pleads the cause of ...
1037	advocated	[.] AD'VOCATED, pp. Defended by argument; vindicated.
1038	advocatess	[.] AD'VOCATESS, n. A female advocate.
1039	advocating	[.] AD'VOCATING, ppr. Supporting by reasons; defending; maintaining.
1040	advocation	...
1041	advoutress	[.] ADVOU'TRESS, n. An adulteress.
1042	advoutry	[.] ADVOU'TRY, n. Adultery. [Little used.]
1043	advowee	[.] ADVOWEE', n. [.] 1. He that has the right of advowson. [.] 2. The advocate of a church or religious house.
1044	advowson	[.] ADVOW'SON, n. s as z. [The word was latinized, advocatio, from advoco, and avow is from advoco.] [.] In English law, a right of presentation to a vacant benefice; or in other words, a right of nominating a person to officiate in a vacant church. The name is derived ...
1045	advoyer	[.] ADVOY'ER, or Avoy'er, A chief magistrate of a town or canton in Switzerland.
1046	ady	[.] A'DY, n. The abanga, or Thernel's restorative; a species of Palm tree, in the West Indies, tall, upright, without branches, with a thick branching head, which furnishes a juice of which the natives make a drink by fermentation.
1047	adz	[.] ADZ, n. An iron instrument with an arching edge, across the line of the handle, and ground from a base on its inside to the outer edge; used for chipping a horizontal surface of timber. [.]
1048	ae	[.] AE, a diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. In derivatives from the learned languages, it is mostly superseded by e, and convenience seems to require it to be wholly rejected in anglicized words. For such words as may be found with this ...
1049	aed	[.] AED, ed, ead, syllables found in names from the Saxon, signify happy; as, Eadric, happy kingdom; Eadrig, happy victory; Edward prosperous watch; Edgar, successful weapon.
1050	aedile	[.] AE'DILE, n. [Lat.] In ancient Rome, an officer or magistrate, who had the care of the public buildings, [ades,] streets, highways, public spectacles, &c.
1051	aegilops	[.] AE'GILOPS, n. [Gr. a goat and the eye.] [.] A tumor in the corner of the eye, and a plant so called.
1052	aegis	[.] AE'GIS, n. [Gr. a goat skin, and shield; from a goat.] [.] A shield, or defensive armor.
1053	ael	[.] AEL, Eng. all, are seen in many names; as, in AElfred, Alfred, all peace; AElwin, all conqueror.
1054	aelf	[.] AELF, seems to be one form of help, but more generally written elph or ulph; as, in AElfwin, victorious aid; AEthelwulph, illustrious help.
1055	aeolist	[.] AE'OLIST, n. [L. AEolus.] [.] A pretender to inspiration.
1056	aerate	[.] A'ERATE, v.t. [See Air.] To combine with carbonic acid, formerly called fixed air. [The word has been discarded from modern chimistry.]
1057	aerated	[.] A'ERATED, pp. Combined with carbonic acid.
1058	aerating	[.] A'ERATING, ppr. Combining with carbonic acid.
1059	aeration	[.] AERA'TION, n. The act or operation of combining with carbonic acid.
1060	aerial	[.] AE'RIAL, a. [L. aerius. See Air.] [.] 1. Belonging to the air, or atmosphere; as, aerial regions. [.] 2. Consisting of air; partaking of the nature of air; as, aerial particles. [.] 3. Produced by air; as, aerial honey. [.] 4. Inhabiting or frequenting ...
1061	aerians	[.] AE'RIANS, n. In church history, a branch of Arians, so called from Aerius, who maintained, that there is no difference between bishops and priests.
1062	aerie	[.] A'ERIE, n. The nest of a fowl, as of an eagle or hawk; a covey of birds.
1063	aerification	[.] AERIFICA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of combining air with; the state of being filled with air. [.] 2. The act of becoming air or of changing into an aeriform state, as substances which are converted from a liquid or solid form into gas or an elastic vapor; the state ...
1064	aerified	[.] A'ERIFIED, pp. Having air infused, or combined with.
1065	aeriform	[.] A'ERIFORM, a. [L. aer, air, and forma, form.] [.] Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic, invisible fluid. The gases are aeriform fluids.
1066	aerify	[.] A'ERIFY, v.t. To infuse air into; to fill with air, or to combine air with.
1067	aerography	[.] AEROG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. air, and to describe.] [.] A description of the air or atmosphere; but aerology is chiefly used.
1068	aerolite	[.] A'EROLITE, n. [Gr. air, and a stone.] [.] A stone falling from the air, or atmospheric regions; a meteoric stone.
1069	aerological	[.] AEROLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to aerology.
1070	aerologist	[.] AEROL'OGIST, n. One who is versed in aerology.
1071	aerology	[.] AEROL'OGY, n [Gr. air, and description.] [.] A description of the air; that branch of philosophy which treats of the air, its constituent parts, properties, and phenomena.
1072	aeromancy	[.] A'EROMANCY, n. [Gr. divination.] [.] Divination by means of the air and winds. [Little used.]
1073	aerometer	[.] AEROM'ETER, n. [Gr. air, and measure.] [.] An instrument for weighing air, or for ascertaining the mean bulk of gases.
1074	aerometry	[.] AEROM'ETRY, n. [as above.] The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation. [.] Rather, aerometry is the art or science of ascertaining the mean bulk of the gases.
1075	aeronaut	[.] A'ERONAUT, n. [Gr. a sailor, from a ship.] [.] One who sails or floats in the air; an aerial navigator; applied to persons who ascent in air balloons.
1076	aeronautic	[.] AERONAUT'IC, a. Sailing or floating in the air; pertaining to aerial sailing.
1077	aeronautics	[.] AERONAUT'ICS, n. The doctrine, science, or art of sailing in the air, by means of a balloon.
1078	aeronautism	[.] A'ERONAUTISM, n. The practice of ascending and floating in the atmosphere, in balloons.
1079	aeroscopy	[.] AEROS'COPY, n. [Gr to see.] The observation of the air. [Little used.]
1080	aerostat	[.] A'EROSTAT, n. [Gr. sustaining, from to stand.] [.] A machine or vessel sustaining weights in the air; a name given to air balloons.
1081	aerostatic	[.] AEROSTAT'IC, a. Suspending in air; pertaining to the art of aerial navigation.
1082	aerostation	[.] AEROSTA'TION, n. [.] 1. Aerial navigation; the science of raising, suspending, and guiding machines in the air, or of ascending in air balloons. [.] 2. The science of weighing air.
1083	aery-light	[.] A'ERY-LIGHT, in Milton, light as air; used for airy light.
1084	aethel	[.] ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.
1085	afar	[.] AF'AR, adv. [a and far. See Far.] [.] 1. At a distance in place; to or from a distance; used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. [.] 2. In scripture, figuratively, estranged in affection; alienated. [.] My ...
1086	afeard	[.] AFE'ARD, a. Afeard is the participle passive. See Fear.] [.] Afraid; affected with fear or apprehension, in a more moderate degree than is expressed by terrified. It is followed by of, but no longer used in books, and even in popular use, is deemed vulgar.
1087	affa	[.] AF'FA, n. A weight used on the Guinea coast, equal to an ounce. The half of it is call eggeba.
1088	affability	[.] AFFABIL'ITY, n. [See Affable.] The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; civility and courteousness, in receiving others, and in conversation; condescension in manners. Affability of countenance is that mildness of aspect, which invites to free social ...
1089	affable	[.] AF'FABLE, a. [L. affabilis, of ad and fabulor. See Fable.] [.] 1. Easy of conversation; admitting others to free conversation without reserve; courteous; complaisant; of easy manners; condescending; usually applied to superiors; as an affable prince. [.] 2. ...
1090	affableness	[.] AF'FABLENESS, n. Affability.
1091	affably	[.] AF'FABLY, adv. In an affable manner; courteously; invitingly.
1092	affair	[.] AFFA'IR, n. [L. facere. The primary sense of facio is to urge, drive, impel.] [.] 1. Business of any kind; that which is done, or is to be done; a word of very indefinite and undefinable signification. In the plural, it denotes transactions in general; as human ...
1093	affect	[.] AFFECT', v.t. [L. afficio, affectum, of ad and facio, to make; affecto, to desire, from the same room. Affect is to make to, or upon to press upon.] [.] 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon; as, cold affects the body; loss affects our interests. [.] 2. ...
1094	affectation	[.] AFFECTA'TION, n. [L. affectatio.] [.] 1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false pretense; artificial appearance, or show; as, an affectation of wit, or of virtue. [.] 2. Fondness; affection. [Not used.]
1095	affected	[.] AFFECT'ED, pp. [.] 1. Impressed; moved, or touched, either in person or in interest; having suffered some change by external force, loss, danger, and the like; as, we are more or less affected by the failure of the bank. [.] 2. Touched in the feelings; having ...
1096	affectedly	[.] AFFECT'EDLY, adv. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality; formally; studiously; unnaturally; as, to walk affectedly; affectedly civil.
1097	affectedness	[.] AFFECT'EDNESS, n. The quality of being affected; affectation.
1098	affecter	[.] AFFECT'ER, n. One that affects; one that practices affectation.
1099	affecting	[.] AFFECT'ING, ppr. [.] 1. Impressing; having an effect on; touching the feelings; moving the passions; attempting a false show; greatly desiring; aspiring to possess. [.] 2. a. Having power to excite, or move the passions; tending to move the affections; pathetic; ...
1100	affectingly	[.] AFFECT'INGLY, adv. In an affecting manner; in a manner to excite emotions.
1101	affection	[.] AFFEC'TION, n. [.] 1. The state of being affected. [Little used.] [.] 2. Passion; but more generally, [.] 3. A bent of mind towards a particular object, holding a middle place between disposition, which is natural, and passion, which is excited by the presence ...
1102	affectionate	[.] AFFEC'TIONATE, a. [.] 1. Having great love, or affection; fond; as, an affectionate brother. [.] 2. Warm in affection; zealous. [.] Man, in his love to God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. [.] 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating ...
1103	affectionately	[.] AFFEC'TIONATELY, adv. With affection; fondly; tenderly; kindly. 1Thes. 2.
1104	affectionateness	[.] AFFEC'TIONATENESS, n. Fondness; goodwill; affection.
1105	affectioned	[.] AFFEC'TIONED, a. [.] 1. Disposed; having an affection of heart. [.] Be ye kindly affectioned one to another. Rom 12. [.] 2. Affected; conceited. Obs.
1106	affective	[.] AFFECT'IVE, a. That affects, or excites emotion; suited to affect. [Little used.]
1107	affectively	[.] AFFECT'IVELY, adv. In an affective or impressive manner.
1108	affector	[.] AFFECT'OR
1109	affectuous	[.] AFFECT'UOUS, a. Full of passion. [Not used.]
1110	affeer	[.] AFFEE'R, v.t. To confirm. [Not used.] [.] AFFEE'R, v.t. [.] In law, to assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to reduce a general amercement to a sum certain, according to the circumstances of the case.
1111	affeered	[.] AFFEE'RED, pp. Moderated in sum; assessed; reduced to a certainty.
1112	affeerment	[.] AFFEE'RMENT, n. The act of affeering, or assessing an amercement, according to the circumstances of the case.
1113	affeeror	[.] AFFEE'ROR, n. One who affeers; a person sworn to assess a penalty, or reduce an uncertain penalty to a certainty.
1114	affettuoso	[.] AFFETTUO'SO, or con affetto, [L. affectus.] [.] In music, a direction to render notes soft and affecting.
1115	affiance	[.] AFFI'ANCE, n. [L. fido, fides.] [.] 1. The marriage contract or promise; faith pledged. [.] 2. Trust in general; confidence; reliance. [.] The Christian looks to God with implicit affiance. [.] AFFI'ANCE, v.t. [.] 1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith ...
1116	affianced	[.] AFFI'ANCED, pp. Pledged in marriage; betrothed; bound in faith.
1117	affiancer	[.] AFFI'ANCER, n. One who makes a contract of marriage between parties.
1118	affiancing	[.] AFFI'ANCING, ppr. Pledging in marriage; promising fidelity.
1119	affidavit	[.] AFFIDA'VIT, n. [An old law verb in the perfect tense; he made oath; from ad and fides, faith.] [.] A declaration upon oath. In the United States, more generally, a declaration in writing, signed by the party, and sworn to, before an authorized magistrate.
1120	affied	[.] AFFI'ED, a. or part. Joined by contract; affianced. [Not used.]
1121	affile	[.] AFFI'LE, v.t. To polish. [Not used.]
1122	affiliate	[.] AFFIL'IATE, v.t. [L. ad and filius, a son.] [.] 1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son. [.] 2. To receive into a society as a member, and initiate in its mysteries, plans, or intrigues - a sense in which the word was much used by the Jacobins in France, ...
1123	affiliation	[.] AFFILIA'TION, n. Adoption; association in the same family or society.
1124	affinity	[.] AFFIN'ITY, n. [L. affinitas, from affinis, adjacent, related by marriage; ad and finis, end.] [.] 1. The relation contracted by marriage, between a husband and his wife's kindred, and between a wife and her husband's kindred; in contradistinction from consanguinity ...
1125	affirm	[.] AFFIRM, v.t. afferm' [L. affirmo; ad and firmo, to make firm. See Firm.] [.] 1. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to declare the existence of something; to maintain as true; opposed to deny. [.] Of one Jesus whom Paul affirmed to be alive. ...
1126	affirmable	[.] AFFIRM'ABLE, a. That may be asserted or declared; followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man. [.]
1127	affirmance	[.] AFFIRM'ANCE, n. [.] 1. Confirmation; ratification; as, the affirmance of a judgment; a statute in affirmance of common law. [.] 2. Declaration; affirmation. [Little used.]
1128	affirmant	[.] AFFIRM'ANT, n. One who affirms.
1129	affirmation	[.] AFFIRMA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of affirming or asserting as true; opposed to negation or denial. [.] 2. That which is asserted; position declared as true; averment. [.] 3. Confirmation; ratification; an establishing of what had been before done or decreed. [.] 4. ...
1130	affirmative	[.] AFFIRM'ATIVE, a. [.] 1. That affirms, or asserts; declaratory of what exists; opposed to negative; as, an affirmative proposition. [.] 2. Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law. [.] 3. In algebra, positive; a term applied to numbers ...
1131	affirmatively	[.] AFFIRM'ATIVELY, adv. In an affirmative manner; positively; on the affirmative side of a question; opposed to negatively.
1132	affirmed	[.] AFFIRM'ED, pp. Declared; asserted; averred; confirmed; ratified.
1133	affirmer	[.] AFFIRM'ER, n. One who affirms.
1134	affirming	[.] AFFIRM'ING, ppr. Asserting; declaring positively; confirming.
1135	affix	[.] AFFIX', v.t. [L. affigo, affixum, of ad and figo, to fix. Eng. peg. See Fix.] [.] 1. To unite at the end; to subjoin, annex, or add at the close; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument. [.] 2. To attach, unite, or connect with, ...
1136	affixed	[.] AFFIX'ED, pp. United at the end; annexed; attached.
1137	affixing	[.] AFFIX'ING, ppr. Uniting at the end; subjoining; attaching.
1138	affixion	[.] AFFIX'ION, n. The act of uniting at the end, or state of being so united. [Little used.]
1139	affixture	[.] AFFIX'TURE, n. That which is affixed.
1140	afflation	[.] AFFLA'TION, n. [L. affle, afflatum, of ad and flo; Eng. blow. See Blow.] [.] A blowing or breathing on.
1141	afflatus	[.] AFFLA'TUS, n. [L.] [.] 1. A breath or blast of wind. [.] 2. Inspiration; communication of divine knowledge, or the power of prophesy.
1142	afflict	[.] AFFLICT', v.t. [L. affligo, afflicto, of ad and figo, to strike; eng. flog; Gr. to strike;, L. plaga, a stroke. Hence, eng. flail, g being suppressed; L. flagellum. See Flog.] [.] 1. To give to the body or mind pain which is continued or of some permanence; ...
1143	afflicted	[.] AFFLICT'ED, pp. Affected with continued or often repeated pain, either of body or mind; suffering grief or distress, of any kind; followed by at, by or with; as, afflicted at the loss of a child, by the rheumatism, or with losses.
1144	afflictedness	[.] AFFLICT'EDNESS, n. The state of being afflicted; but superseded by affliction.
1145	afflicter	[.] AFFLICT'ER, n. One who afflicts, or causes pain of body or of mind.
1146	afflicting	[.] AFFLICT'ING, ppr. Causing continued or durable pain of body or mind; grieving; distressing. [.] AFFLICT'ING, a. Grievous; distressing; as, an afflicting event.
1147	affliction	[.] AFFLIC'TION, n. [.] 1. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. [.] Some virtues are seen only in affliction. [.] 2. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, calamity, adversity, persecution. [.] Many are ...
1148	afflictive	[.] AFFLICT'IVE, a. Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; painful; distressing.
1149	afflictively	[.] AFFLICT'IVELY, adv. In a manner to give pain or grief.
1150	affluence	...
1151	affluent	[.] AF'FLUENT, a. Flowing to; more generally, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches; abundant.
1152	affluently	[.] AF'FLUENTLY, adv. In abundance; abundantly.
1153	afflux	[.] AF'FLUX, n. [L. affluxum, from affluo. See Flow.] [.] The act of flowing to; a flowing to, or that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.
1154	affluxion	[.] AFFLUX'ION, n. The act of flowing to; that which flows to. [See Afflux.]
1155	afforage	[.] AF'FORAGE, n. [ad and force.] [.] In France, a duty paid to the lord of a district, for permission to sell wine or other liquors, within his seignory.
1156	afforcement	[.] AFFO'RCEMENT, n. [ad and force.] [.] In old charters, a fortress; a fortification for defense. Obs.
1157	afford	[.] AFFO'RD, v.t. [ad and the root of forth, further. The sense is to send forth. But I have not found this precise word in the exact sense of the English, in any other language.] [.] 1. To yield or produce as fruit, profit, issues, or result. Thus, the earth affords ...
1158	afforded	[.] AFFO'RDED, pp. Yielded as fruit, produce or result; sold without loss or with profit.
1159	affording	[.] AFFO'RDING, ppr. Yielding; producing; selling without loss; bearing expenses.
1160	afforest	[.] AFFOR'EST, v.t. [ad and forest.] [.] To convert ground into forest, as was done by the first Norman kings in England, for the purpose of affording them the pleasures of the chase.
1161	afforestation	[.] AFFORESTA'TION, n. The act of turning ground into forest or wood land.
1162	afforested	[.] AFFOR'ESTED, pp. Converted into forest.
1163	afforesting	[.] AFFOR'ESTING, ppr. Converting into forest.
1164	affranchisement	[.] AFFRAN'CHISEMENT,n. [See Franchise and disfranchise.] [.] The act of making free, or liberating from dependence or servitude. [Little used.]
1165	affrap	[.] AFFRAP', v.t. [Eng. rap.] To strike. Obs.
1166	affray	[.] AFFRA'Y,
1167	affrayment	[.] AFFRA'YMENT, n. [.] 1. In law, the fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an affray. [.] 2. In popular language, fray is used to express any fighting of two or more persons; ...
1168	affreight	[.] AFFREIGHT', v.t. affra'te. [See Freight.] [.] To hire a ship for the transportation of goods or freight.
1169	affreighted	[.] AFFREIGHT'ED, pp. Hired for transporting goods.
1170	affreighter	[.] AFFREIGHT'ER, n. The person who hires or charters a ship or other vessel to convey goods.
1171	affreightment	[.] AFFREIGHT'MENT, n. The act of hiring a ship for the transportation of goods.
1172	affret	[.] AFFRET', n. A furious onset, or attack. [Not used.]
1173	affriction	[.] AFFRIC'TION, n. The act of rubbing. [Not used.] [See Friction.]
1174	affriended	[.] AFFRIENDED, a. affrend'ed. Made friends; reconciled. Obs.
1175	affright	[.] AFFRI'GHT, v.t. affri'te. [See Fright.] [.] To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to terrify or alarm. It expresses a stronger impression than fear or apprehend, and perhaps less than terror. [.] AFFRI'GHT, n. Sudden or great fear; terror; also, the cause ...
1176	affrighted	[.] AFFRI'GHTED, pp. Suddenly alarmed with fear; terrified; followed by at or with, more generally by at; as, affrighted at the cry of fire.
1177	affrighter	[.] AFFRI'GHTER, n. One who frightens.
1178	affrightful	[.] AFFRI'GHTFUL, a. Terrifying; terrible; that may excite great fear; dreadful.
1179	affrighting	[.] AFFRI'GHTING, ppr. Impressing sudden fear; terrifying.
1180	affrightment	[.] AFFRI'GHTMENT, n. Affright; terror; the state of being frightened. [Rarely used.] [In common discourse, the use of this word, in all its forms, is superseded by fright, frighted, frightful.]
1181	affront	[.] AFFRONT', v.t. [L. frons, front, face.] [.] 1. Literally, to meet or encounter face to face, in a good or bad sense; as, [.] The seditious affronted the king's forces [.] [The foregoing sense is obsolete.] [.] 2. To offer abuse to the face; to insult, dare ...
1182	affronted	[.] AFFRONT'ED, pp. [.] 1. Opposed face to face; dared; defied; abused. [.] 2. In popular language, offended; slightly angry at ill treatment, by words or actions; displeased.
1183	affrontee	[.] AFFRONTEE', a. In heraldry, front to front; an epithet given to animals that face each other.
1184	affronter	[.] AFFRONT'ER, n. One that affronts.
1185	affronting	[.] AFFRONT'ING, ppr. Opposing face to face; defying; abusing; offering abuse, or any cause of displeasure. [.] AFFRONT'ING, a. Contumelious; abusive.
1186	affrontive	[.] AFFRONT'IVE, a. Giving offense; tending to offend; abusive.
1187	affrontiveness	[.] AFFRONT'IVENESS, n. The quality that gives offense. [Little used.]
1188	affuse	[.] AFFU'SE, v.t. s as z. [L. affundo, affusum, ad and fundo, to pour out. See Fuse.] [.] To pour upon; to sprinkle, as with a liquid.
1189	affused	[.] AFFU'SED, pp. Sprinkled with a liquid; sprinkled on; having a liquid poured upon.
1190	affusing	[.] AFFU'SING, ppr. Pouring upon, or sprinkling.
1191	affusion	[.] AFFU'SION, n. affu'zhun. The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid substance, as water upon a diseased body, or upon a child in baptism.
1192	affy	[.] AFFY', v.t. To betroth; to bind or join. [Not used.] [.] AFFY', v.t. To trust or confide in. [Not used.]
1193	afield	[.] AFIE'LD, adv. [a and field.] To the field.
1194	afire	[.] AFI'RE, adv. On fire.
1195	aflat	[.] AFLAT', adv. [a and flat.] Level with the ground.
1196	afloat	[.] AFLO'AT, adv. or a. [a and float.] [.] 1. Borne on the water; floating; swimming; as, the ship is afloat. [.] 2. Figuratively, moving; passing from place to place; as, a rumor is afloat. [.] 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; as, our affairs are ...
1197	afoot	[.] AFOOT', adv. [a or on and foot.] [.] 1. On foot; borne by the feet; opposed to riding. [.] 2. In action; in a state of being planned for execution; as, a design is afoot, or on foot.
1198	afore	[.] AFO'RE, adv. or prep. [a and fore.] [.] 1. In front. [.] 2. Between one object and another, so as to intercept a direct view or intercourse; as, to stand between a person and the light of a candle - a popular use of the word. [.] 3. Prior in time; before; ...
1199	aforegoing	[.] AFO'REGOING, a. Going before. [See Foregoing, which is chiefly used.]
1200	aforehand	[.] AFO'REHAND, adv. [afore and hand.] [.] 1. In time previous; by previous provision; as, he is ready aforehand. [.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark 14. [.] 2. a. Prepared; previously provided; as, to be aforehand in business. Hence in popular ...
1201	aforementioned	[.] AFO'REMENTIONED, a. [afore and mention.] [.] Mentioned before in the same writing or discourse.
1202	aforenamed	[.] AFO'RENAMED, a. [afore and name.] Named before.
1203	aforesaid	[.] AFO'RESAID, a. [afore and say.] Said or recited before, or in a proceeding part.
1204	aforetime	[.] AFO'RETIME, adv. [afore and time.] In time past; in a former time.
1205	afoul	[.] AFOUL', adv. or a. [a and foul.] Not free; entangled.
1206	afraid	[.] AFRA'ID, a. [The participle of affray.] [.] Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful. This word expresses a less degree of fear than terrified or frightened. It is followed by of before the object of fear; as, to be afraid of death. [.] Joseph was afraid ...
1207	afresh	[.] AFRESH', adv. [a and fresh.] Anew; again; recently; after intermission. [.] They crucify the son of God afresh. Heb. 6.
1208	afric	[.] AF'RIC,
1209	africa	[.] AF'RICA, n. [L. a neg. and frigus, cold.] [.] One of the four quarters or largest divisions of the globe; a continent separated from Europe by the Mediterranean sea.
1210	african	[.] AF'RICAN, a. Pertaining to Africa. [.] AF'RICAN, n. A native of Africa. [.] This name is given also to the African marygold.
1211	afront	[.] AFRONT', adv. In front.
1212	aft	[.] 'AFT, a. or adv. [.] In seaman's language, a word used to denote the stern or what pertains to the stern of a ship; as, the aft part of the ship; haul aft the main sheet, that is, further towards the stern. Fore and aft is the whole length of a ship. Right aft is ...
1213	after	[.] 'AFTER, a. [The comparative degree of aft. But is some Teutonic dialects it is written with g.] [.] 1. In marine language, more aft, or towards the stern of the ship; as, the after sails; after hatchway. [.] 2. In common language, later in time; as, an after ...
1214	after-account	[.] 'AFTER-ACCOUNT, n. A subsequent reckoning.
1215	after-act	[.] 'AFTER-ACT, n. A subsequent act.
1216	after-ages	[.] 'AFTER-AGES, n. Later ages; succeeding times. After-age, in the singular, is not improper.
1217	after-band	[.] 'AFTER-BAND, n. A future band.
1218	after-birth	[.] 'AFTER-BIRTH, n. The appendages of the fetus, called also secundines.
1219	after-clap	[.] 'AFTER-CLAP, n. An unexpected, subsequent event; something happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
1220	after-comer	[.] 'AFTER-COMER, n. A successor.
1221	after-comfort	[.] 'AFTER-COMFORT, n. Future comfort
1222	after-conduct	[.] 'AFTER-CONDUCT, n. Subsequent behavior.
1223	after-conviction	[.] 'AFTER-CONVIC'TION, n Future conviction.
1224	after-cost	[.] 'AFTER-COST, n. Later cost; expense after the execution of the main design.
1225	after-course	[.] 'AFTER-COURSE, n. Future course.
1226	after-crop	[.] 'AFTER-CROP, n. The second crop in the same year.
1227	after-days	[.] 'AFTER-DAYS, n. Future days.
1228	after-eatage	[.] 'AFTER-EATAGE, n. Part of the increase of the same year. [Local.]
1229	after-endeavor	[.] 'AFTER-ENDEAV'OR, n. An endeavor after the first or former effort.
1230	after-game	[.] 'AFTER-GAME, n. A subsequent scheme, or expedient.
1231	after-guard	[.] 'AFTER-GUARD, n. The seaman stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after sails.
1232	after-hope	[.] 'AFTER-HOPE, n. Future hope.
1233	after-hours	[.] 'AFTER-HOURS, n. Hours that follow; time following.
1234	after-ignorance	[.] 'AFTER-IGNORANCE, n. Subsequent ignorance.
1235	after-king	[.] 'AFTER-KING, n. A succeeding king.
1236	after-life	[.] 'AFTER-LIFE, n. [.] 1. Future life or the life after this. [.] 2. A later period of life; subsequent life.
1237	after-liver	[.] 'AFTER-LIVER, n. One who lives in succeeding times.
1238	after-love	[.] 'AFTER-LOVE, n. The second or later love.
1239	after-malice	[.] 'AFTER-MALICE, n. Succeeding malice.
1240	after-math	[.] 'AFTER-MATH, n. [after and math. See Mow.] [.] A second crop of grass, in the same season; rowen.
1241	after-most	[.] 'AFTER-MOST, a. Superl. In marine language, nearest the stern, opposed to foremost; also hindmost.
1242	after-noon	[.] 'AFTER-NOON', n. The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
1243	after-pains	[.] 'AFTER-PAINS, n. The pains which succeed child birth.
1244	after-part	[.] 'AFTER-PART, n. The latter part. In marine language, the part of a ship towards the stern.
1245	after-piece	[.] 'AFTER-PIECE, n. A piece performed after a play; a farce or other entertainment.
1246	after-proof	[.] 'AFTER-PROOF, n. Subsequent proof or evidence; qualities known by subsequent experience.
1247	after-repentance	[.] 'AFTER-REPENT'ANCE, n. Subsequent repentance.
1248	after-report	[.] 'AFTER-REPORT, n. Subsequent report, or information.
1249	after-sails	[.] 'AFTER-SAILS, n. The sails on the mizzenmast and stays, between the main and mizzen-masts.
1250	after-state	[.] 'AFTER-STATE, n. The future state.
1251	after-sting	[.] 'AFTER-STING, n. Subsequent sting.
1252	after-storm	[.] 'AFTER-STORM, n. A succeeding or future storm.
1253	after-supper	[.] 'AFTER-SUPPER, n. The time between supper and going to bed.
1254	after-swarm	[.] 'AFTER-SWARM, n. A swarm of bees which leaves the hive after the first.
1255	after-taste	[.] 'AFTER-TASTE, n. A taste which succeeds eating and drinking.
1256	after-thought	[.] 'AFTER-THOUGHT, n. [See Thought.] Reflections after an act; later thought, or expedient occurring too late.
1257	after-times	[.] 'AFTER-TIMES, n. Succeeding times. It may be used in the singular.
1258	after-tossing	[.] 'AFTER-TOSSING, n. The swell or agitation of the sea after a storm.
1259	after-wise	[.] 'AFTER-WISE, a. Wise afterwards or too late.
1260	after-wit	[.] 'AFTER-WIT, n. Subsequent wit; wisdom that comes too late.
1261	after-wrath	[.] 'AFTER-WRATH, n. Later wrath; anger after the provocation has ceased.
1262	after-writer	[.] 'AFTER-WRITER, n. A succeeding writer.
1263	afterward	[.] 'AFTERWARD, or 'AFTERWARDS, adv. [See Ward.] In later or subsequent time.
1264	afterwards	[.] 'AFTERWARD, or 'AFTERWARDS, adv. [See Ward.] In later or subsequent time.
1265	aga	[.] AGA, n. In the Turkish dominions, a commander or chief officer. The title is given to various chief officers, whether civil or military. It is also given to great land holders, and to the eunuchs of the Sultan's seraglio.
1266	again	[.] AGAIN, adv. agen'. [L. con, whence contra;] [.] 1. A second time; once more. [.] I will not again curse the ground. Gen 8. [.] 2. It notes something further, or additional to one or more particulars. [.] For to which of the angels said he at any time, thou ...
1267	against	[.] AGAINST, prep. agenst'. [.] 1. In opposition; noting enmity or disapprobation. [.] His hand will be against every man. Gen. 16. [.] I am against your pillows. Ez. 8. [.] 2. In opposition, noting contrariety, contradiction, or repugnance; as, a decree against ...
1268	agalloch	[.] AG'ALLOCH,
1269	agallochum	[.] AGAL'LOCHUM, n. [Of oriental origin.] [.] Aloes-wood, the product of a tree growing in China, and some of the Indian isles. There are three varieties, the calambac, the common lignum aloes, and the calambour. The first variety is light and porous, and so filled with ...
1270	agalmatolite	[.] AGALMAT'OLITE,n. [Gr. image, and stone.] [.] A name given by Klaproth to two varieties of the pierre de lard, lard stone, of China. It contains no magnesia, but otherwise has the characters of talck. It is called in German, bildstein, figure-stone, and by Brongniart, ...
1271	agape	[.] AG'APE, adv. or a. [a and gape. See Gape.] [.] Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention; having the mouth wide open. [.] AG'APE, n. ag'apy. [Gr. Love.] [.] Among the primitive christians, a love feast or feast of charity, held before or after ...
1272	agaric	[.] AG'ARIC, n. [Gr.] [.] In botany, mushroom, a genus of funguses, containing numerous species. Mushrooms grow on trees, or spring from the earth; of the latter species some are valued as articles of food; others are poisonous. The name was originally given to a fungus ...
1273	agast	[.] AG'AST or AGH'AST, a [.] Struck with terror, or astonishment; amazed; struck silent with horror. [.] With shuddering horror pale and eyes agast.
1274	agate	[.] AGA'TE, adv. [a and gate.] On the way; going. Obs.
1275	agatine	[.] AG'ATINE, a. Pretaining to agate. [.] AG'ATINE, n. A genus of shells, oval or oblong.
1276	agatized	[.] AG'ATIZED, a. Having the colored lines and figures of agate. [.] Agatized wood, a substance apparently produced by the petrifaction of wood; a species of hornstone.
1277	agaty	[.] AG'ATY, a. Of the nature of agate.
1278	agave	[.] AGA'VE, n. [Gr. admirable.] [.] 1. The American aloe. The great aloe rises twenty feet, and its branches form a sort of pyramid at the top. [.] 2. A genus of univalvular shells.
1279	agaze	[.] AGA'ZE, v.t. [from gaze.] To strike with amazement. Obs.
1280	agazed	[.] AGA'ZED, pp. Struck with amazement. [Not in use.]
1281	age	[.] AGE, n. [L. aetas,or aevum. But these are undoubtedly contracted words.] [.] 1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of man is seventy years; the age of a horse may be twenty or thirty years; the age of a tree ...
1282	aged	[.] A'GED, a. [.] 1. Old; having lived long; having lived almost the usual time allotted to that species of being; applied to animals or plants; as, an aged man, or an aged oak. [.] 2. Having a certain age; having lived; as, a man aged forty years. [.] A'GED, ...
1283	agen	[.] AGEN', for again. Obs.
1284	agency	[.] A'GENCY, n. [L. agens. See Act.] [.] 1. The quality of moving or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; operation; instrumentality; as, the agency of providence in the natural world. [.] 2. The office of an agent, or factor; business of an ...
1285	agenda	[.] AGEND'A, n. [L. things to be done.] [.] A memorandum-book; the service or office of a church; a ritual or liturgy.
1286	agent	[.] A'GENT, a. Acting; opposed to patient, or sustaining action; as, the body agent. [Little used.] [.] A'GENT, n. [.] 1. An actor; one that exerts power, or has the power to act; as, a moral agent. [.] 2. An active power or cause; that which has the power ...
1287	agentship	[.] A'GENTSHIP, n. The office of an agent. [Not used.] We now use agency.
1288	aggelation	[.] AGGELA'TION, n. [L. gelu.] Concretion of a fluid. [Not used.]
1289	aggeneration	[.] AGGENERA'TION, n. [L. ad and generatio.] The state of growing to another. [Not used.]
1290	agger	[.] AG'GER, n. [L.] A fortress, or mound. [Not used.]
1291	aggerate	[.] AG'GERATE, v.t. [L. aggero.] To heap. [Not used.]
1292	aggeration	[.] AGGERA'TION, n. A heaping; accumulation; as, "aggerations of sand."
1293	agglomerate	...
1294	agglomerated	[.] AGGLOM'ERATED, pp. Wound or collected into a ball.
1295	agglomerating	[.] AGGLOM'ERATING, ppr. Winding into a ball; gathering into a lump.
1296	agglomeration	[.] AGGLOMERA'TION, n. The act of winding into a ball; the state of being gathered into a ball or mass.
1297	agglutinant	[.] AGGLU'TINANT, n. Any viscous substance which unites other substances, by causing an adhesion; any application which tends to unite parts which have too little adhesion. [.] AGGLU'TINANT, a. Uniting as glue; tending to cause adhesion.
1298	agglutinate	[.] AGGLU'TINATE, v.t. [Lat. agglutino, ad and glutino, from gluten. Eng. glue. See Glue.] [.] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
1299	agglutinated	[.] AGGLU'TINATED, pp. Glued together; united by a viscous substance.
1300	agglutinating	[.] AGGLU'TINATING, ppr. Gluing together; united by causing adhesion.
1301	agglutination	[.] AGGLUTINA'TION, n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united.
1302	agglutinative	[.] AGGLU'TINATIVE, a. That tends to unite, or has power to cause adhesion.
1303	aggrace	[.] AGGRA'CE, v.t. To favor. [Not used.] [.] AGGRA'CE, n. Kindness; favor. [Not used.]
1304	aggrandization	[.] AGGRANDIZA'TION, n. The act of aggrandizing. [Not used.]
1305	aggrandize	[.] AG'GRANDIZE, v.t. [L. ad and grandis. See Grand.] [.] 1. To make great or greater in power, rank or honor; to exalt, as, to aggrandize a family. [.] 2. To enlarge, applied to things; as, to aggrandize our conceptions. It seems to be never applied to the bulk ...
1306	aggrandized	[.] AG'GRANDIZED, pp. Made great or greater; exalted; enlarged.
1307	aggrandizement	[.] AGGRAND'IZEMENT, n. The act of aggrandizing; the state of being exalted in power, rank or honor; exaltation; enlargement. [.] The Emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
1308	aggrandizer	[.] AG'GRANDIZER, n. One that aggrandizes or exalts in power, rank or honor.
1309	aggrandizing	[.] AG'GRANDIZING, ppr. Making great; exalting; enlarging.
1310	aggrate	[.] AGGRA'TE, v.t. To please. [Not used.]
1311	aggravate	[.] AG'GRAVATE, v.t. [L. aggravo, of ad and gravis, heavy. See Grave, Gravity.] [.] 1. To make heavy, but not used in this literal sense. Figuratively, to make worse, more severe, or less tolerable; as, to aggravate the evils of life; to aggravate pain or punishment. [.] 2. ...
1312	aggravated	[.] AG'GRAVATED, pp. Increased, in severity or enormity; made worse; exaggerated.
1313	aggravating	[.] AG'GRAVATING, ppr. Increasing in severity, enormity, or degree, as evils, misfortunes, pain, punishment, crimes, guilt, &c.; exaggerating.
1314	aggravation	[.] AGGRAVA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of making worse, used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing severity or hainousness; addition to that which is evil or improper; as, an aggravation of pain or grief. [.] 2. Exaggerated representation, or heightened ...
1315	aggregate	[.] AG'GREGATE, v.t [L. aggrego, to collect in troops, of ad and grex, a herd or band. See Gregarious.] [.] To bring together; to collect particulars into a sum, mass or body. [.] AG'GREGATE, a. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; as, ...
1316	aggregated	[.] AG'GREGATED, pp. Collected into a sum, mass or system.
1317	aggregately	[.] AG'GREGATELY, adv. Collectively; taken in a sum or mass.
1318	aggregating	[.] AG'GREGATING, ppr. Collecting into a sum or mass.
1319	aggregation	[.] AGGREGA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of aggregating; the state of being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. [.] 2. In chimistry, the affinity of aggregation, is the power which causes homogeneous bodies to tend towards each other, ...
1320	aggregative	[.] AG'GREGATIVE, a. Taken together; collective.
1321	aggregator	[.] AG'GREGATOR, n. He that collects into a whole or mass.
1322	aggress	[.] AGGRESS', v.i. [L. aggredior, aggressus, of ad and gradior, to go. See Grade.] [.] To make a first attack; to commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to assault first or invade.
1323	aggressing	[.] AGGRESS'ING, ppr. Commencing hostility first; making the first attack.
1324	aggression	[.] AGGRESS'ION, n. The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to war or controversy.
1325	aggressive	[.] AGGRESS'IVE, a. Tending to aggress; making the first attack.
1326	aggressor	[.] AGGRESS'OR, n. The person who first attacks; he who first commences hostility or a quarrel; an assaulter; an invader. [.] The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer.
1327	aggrievance	[.] AGGRIE'VANCE, n. See Aggrieve.] Oppression; hardship; injury. But grievance is more generally used.
1328	aggrieve	[.] AGGRIE'VE, v.t. [of ad and grieve from grief. See Grief and Grave.] [.] 1. To give pain or sorrow; to afflict. In this sense, it is nearly superseded by grieve. [.] 2. To bear hard upon; to oppress or injure, in one's rights; to vex or harass by civil or political ...
1329	aggrieved	[.] AGGRIE'VED, pp. Pained; afflicted, civilly or politically oppressed.
1330	aggrieving	[.] AGGRIE'VING, ppr. Afflicting; imposing hardships on; oppressing.
1331	aggroop	[.] AGGROOP, v.t. [See Group.] [.] To bring together; to group; to collect many persons in a crowd, or many figures into a whole, either in statuary, painting or description.
1332	aggrooped	[.] AGGROOP'ED, pp. Collected into a group or assemblage.
1333	aggroup	[.] AGGROUP',
1334	aggrouped	[.] AGGROUP'ED,
1335	aghast	[.] AGH'AST, or more correctly AGHAST, a or adv. [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.] [.] Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.
1336	agile	[.] AG'ILE, a. [L. agilis, from ago. See Act.] [.] Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; brisk; active. [.] And bending forward, stuck his agile heels.
1337	agileness	[.] AG'ILENESS, n. Nimbleness; activity; the faculty of moving the limbs quickly; agility.
1338	agility	[.] AGIL'ITY, n. [L. agilitas.] [.] The power of moving the limbs quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity; quickness of motion.
1339	agio	[.] A'GIO, n. [.] 1. In commerce, the difference between bank notes and current coin. In Holland, the agio is three or four per cent; in Rome, from fifteen to twenty five per cent; in Venice, twenty per cent: but the agio is subject to variation. [.] 2. Premium; ...
1340	agist	[.] AGIST', v.t. [.] In law, to take the cattle of others to graze, at a certain sum; to feed or pasture the cattle of others; used originally for the feeding of cattle in the king's forest.
1341	agistator	[.] AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR n. An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
1342	agistment	[.] AGIST'MENT, n. The taking and feeding other men's cattle in the king's forest, or on one's own land; also, the price paid for such feeding. it denotes also a burden, charge or tax. [In canon law, a modus, or composition.
1343	agistor	[.] AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR n. An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
1344	agitable	[.] AG'ITABLE, a. [See Agitate.] That may be agitated, shaken or discussed.
1345	agitate	[.] AG'ITATE, v.t. [L. agito, from ago. See Act.] [.] 1. To stir violently; to move back and forth with a quick motion; to shake or move briskly; as, to agitate water in a vessel. [.] 2. To move or force into violent irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea. [.] 3. ...
1346	agitated	[.] AG'ITATED, pp. Tossed from side to side; shaken; moved violently and irregularly; disturbed; discussed; considered.
1347	agitating	[.] AG'ITATING, ppr. Shaking; moving with violence; disturbing; disputing; contriving.
1348	agitation	[.] AGITA'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of shaking; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. [.] 2. Disturbance of tranquility in the mind; perturbation; excitement of passion. [.] 3. Discussion; ...
1349	agitato	[.] AGITA'TO, in music, denotes a broken style of performance, adapted to awaken surprise or perturbation.
1350	agitator	[.] AG'ITATOR, n. One who agitates; also, an insurgent; one who excites sedition or revolt. In antiquity, a charioteer, that is, a driver. In Cromwell's time, certain officers appointed by the army to manage their concerns, were called agitators.
1351	aglet	[.] AG'LET,
1352	aglet-baby	[.] AG'LET-BABY, n. A small image on the top of a lace.
1353	agminal	[.] AG'MINAL, a. [L. agmen, a troop or body of men arrayed from ago.] Pertaining to an army or troop. [Little used.]
1354	agnail	[.] AG'NAIL, n. [ad and nail. See Nail.] [.] A disease of the nail; a whitlow; an inflammation round the nail.
1355	agnate	[.] AG'NATE, a. [L. agnatus.] Related or akin by the father's side. [.] AG'NATE, n. [L. agnatus, adnascor, of ad and nascor, to be born. See Nature.] Any male relation by the father's side.
1356	agnatic	[.] AGNAT'IC, a. Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
1357	agnation	[.] AGNA'TION, n. Relation by the father's side only, or descent in the male line, distinct from cognation, which includes descent in the male and female lines.
1358	agnel	[.] AG'NEL, n. [From agnus, a lamb, the figure struck on the coin.] [.] An ancient French coin, value twelve sols, six deniers. It was called also mouton d'or and agnel d'or.
1359	agnition	[.] AGNI'TION, n. [L. agnitio, agnosco.] Acknowledgment. [Little used.]
1360	agnize	[.] AGNI'ZE, v.t. To acknowledge. [Not in use.]
1361	agnominate	[.] AGNOM'INATE, v.t. [L. agnomino; ad and nomino, nomen, name.] [.] To name. [Little used.]
1362	agnomination	[.] AGNOMINA'TION, n. [L. agnomen, a surname, of ad and nomen. See Name.] [.] 1. An additional name, or title; a name added to another, as expressive of some act, achievement, &c.; a surname. [.] 2. Allusion of one word to another by sound.
1363	ago	[.] AGO', adv. or a. [See Go.] Past; gone; as a year ago.
1364	agog	[.] AGOG', adv. [.] In a state of desire; highly excited by eagerness after an object. [.] The gaudy gossip when she's set agog.
1365	agoing	[.] AGO'ING, [The participle of go, with the prefix a.] [.] In motion, as to set a mill agoing; or about to go; ready to go; as, he is agoing immediately. The latter use is vulgar.
1366	agon	[.] A'GON, n. [Gr.] The contest for the prize. [Not used.]
1367	agone	[.] AGONE, pp. agawn;, [See ago and Gone.] Ago; past; since. [.] [Nearly Obs.]
1368	agonism	[.] AG'ONISM, n. [Gr.] Contention for a prize.
1369	agonist	[.] AG'ONIST, n. One who contends for the prize in public games. Milton has used Agonistes in this sense, and so called his tragedy, from the similitude of Sampson's exertions, in slaying the Philistines, to prize fighting. In church history, the disciples of Donatus ...
1370	agonistic	[.] AGONIST'IC,
1371	agonistical	[.] AGONIST'ICAL, a. Pertaining to prize-fighting, contests of strength, or athletic combats.
1372	agonistically	[.] AGONIST'ICALLY, adv. In an agonistic manner; like prize-fighting.
1373	agonize	[.] AG'ONIZE, v.t. [Gr. to strive. See Agony.] [.] To write with extreme pain; to suffer violent anguish. [.] To smart and agonize at every pore. [.] AG'ONIZE, v.t. To distress with extreme pain; to torture.
1374	agonizing	[.] AG'ONIZING, ppr. Suffering severe pain; writhing with torture.
1375	agonizingly	[.] AG'ONIZINGLY, adv. With extreme anguish.
1376	agony	[.] AG'ONY, n. [Gr. a contest with bodily exertion; a word used to denote the athletic games, in Greece; whence anguish, solicitude; from L. ago. Gr. to strive. See Act.] [.] 1. In strictness, pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar ...
1377	agood	[.] AGOOD, adv. In earnest. [Not used.]
1378	agouty	[.] AGOUTY, n. [L. acutus.] [.] A quadruped of the order Rodentia; arranged by naturalist in the genus Cavia. It is of the size of a rabbit. The upper part of the body is brownish, with a mixture of red and black; the belly yellowish. Three varieties are mentioned, ...
1379	agrarian	[.] AGRA'RIAN, a. [L. agrarius, from ager, a field.] [.] Relating to lands. appropriately, denoting or pertaining to an equal division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands equally among all the citizens, limiting ...
1380	agree	[.] AGREE', v.i.[L. gratia. the primary sense is advancing, from the same root as L. gradior.] [.] 1. To be of one mind; to harmonize in opinion. [.] In the expediency of the law, all the parties agree. [.] 2. To live in concord, or without contention; as, parents ...
1381	agreeability	[.] AGREEABIL'ITY, n. Easiness of disposition. [Not used.]
1382	agreeable	[.] AGREE'ABLE, a. [.] 1. Suitable; conformable; correspondent; consistent with; as, the practice of virtue is agreeable to the law of God and our own nature. [.] 2. In pursuance of; in conformity with; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house took up the ...
1383	agreeableness	[.] AGREE'ABLENESS, n. [.] 1. Suitableness; conformity; consistency; as, the agreeableness of virtue to the laws of God. [.] 2. The quality of pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses; as, an agreeableness of manners; ...
1384	agreeably	[.] AGREE'ABLY, adv. [.] 1. Pleasingly; in an agreeable manner; in a manner to give pleasure; as, to be agreeably entertained with a discourse. [.] 2. Suitably; consistently; conformably; [.] The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably ...
1385	agreed	[.] AGREE'D, pp. [.] 1. Being in concord or harmony of opinion; of one mind. [.] Can two walk together except they be agreed? Amos 3. [.] 2. Assented to; admitted; as, a proposition is agreed to. [.] 3. Settled by consent; implying bargain or contract; as, ...
1386	agreeing	[.] AGREE'ING, ppr. Living in concord; concurring; assenting; settling by consent.
1387	agreeingly	[.] AGREE'INGLY, adv. In conformity to. [Little used.]
1388	agreement	[.] AGREE'MENT, n. [.] 1. Concord; harmony; conformity. [.] What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? 2Cor. 6. [.] 2. Union of opinions or sentiments; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. [.] 3. Resemblance; conformity; similitude. [.] Expansion ...
1389	agrestic	[.] AGRES'TIC,
1390	agrestical	[.] AGRES'TICAL, a. [L. agrestis; ager, a field, or the same root.] [.] Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; unpolished.
1391	agricultor	[.] AG'RICULTOR, n. [L. ager, a field, and cultor, a cultivator.] [.] One whose occupation is to till the ground; a farmer; a husbandman; one skilled in husbandry.
1392	agricultural	[.] AGRICUL'TURAL, a. Pertaining to husbandry, tillage, or the culture of the earth.
1393	agriculture	[.] AG'RICULTURE, n. [L. ager, a field, and cultura, cultivation. See Acre and Culture.] [.] In general sense, the cultivation of the ground, for the purpose of producing vegetables, and fruits, for the use of man and beast; or the art of preparing the soil, sowing ...
1394	agriculturism	[.] AGRICUL'TURISM, n. The art or science of agriculture. [Little used.]
1395	agriculturist	[.] AGRICUL'TURIST, n. One skilled in the art of cultivating the ground; a skilful husbandman.
1396	agrimony	[.] AG'RIMONY, n. [L. agremonia, from the Gr. Thus it is written by Pliny. But in lower Latin it is written agrimonia. Said to be from Gr. the web or pearl of the eye from white, which this plant was supposed to cure. See Theoph 887.] [.] A genus of plants, of several ...
1397	agrippinians	[.] AGRIPPIN'IANS, n. In Church history, the followers of Agrippinus, bishop of Carthage, in the third century, who first taught and defended the doctrine of rebaptization.
1398	agrise	[.] AGRISE, v.i. To shiver. [Not in use.] [.] AGRISE, v.t. To terrify; also, to make frightful. [Not in use.]
1399	agrom	[.] A'GROM, n. a disease frequent in Bengal, and other parts of the E. Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves, becomes rough and sometimes covered with white spots. The remedy is some chalybeate liquor, or the juice of mint.
1400	agrostemma	[.] AGROSTEM'MA, n. A genus of plants of several species, containing the common corn cockle, wild lychnis or campion, &c.
1401	agrostis	[.] AGROS'TIS, n. [Gr.] Bent grass; a genus of many species.
1402	aground	[.] AGROUND', adv. [Of a, at or on, and ground.] [.] 1. On the ground; a marine term, signifying that the bottom of a ship rests on the ground, for want of sufficient depth of water. When the ground is near the shore, the ship is said to be ashore or stranded. [.] 2. ...
1403	aguapecaca	[.] AGUAPECA'CA, n. The Jacana, a Brazilian bird, about the size of a pigeon. In the extremity of each wing, it has a sharp prickle which is used for defense.
1404	ague	[.] A'GUE, n. a'gu, [.] 1. The cold fit which precedes a fever, or a paroxysm of fever in intermittents. It is accompanied with shivering. [.] 2. Chilliness; a chill, or state of shaking with cold, though in health. [.] 3. It is used for a periodical fever, an ...
1405	ague-cake	[.] A'GUE-CAKE, n. a hard tumor on the left side of the belly, lower than the false ribs; supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers.
1406	ague-fit	[.] A'GUE-FIT, n. A paroxysm of cold, or shivering; chilliness.
1407	ague-proof	[.] A'GUE-PROOF, n. Able to resist agues; proof against agues.
1408	ague-spell	[.] A'GUE-SPELL, n. A charm or spell to cure or prevent ague.
1409	ague-struck	[.] A'GUE-STRUCK, a. Struck with ague.
1410	ague-tree	[.] A'GUE-TREE, n. A name sometimes applied to sassafras, on account of its febrifuge qualities.
1411	agued	[.] A'GUED, a. Chilly; having a fit of ague; shivering with cold or fear.
1412	aguerry	[.] AGUER'RY, v.t. To inure to the hardships of war; to instruct in the art of war. [Not in use.]