| A: | The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe as also the small letter a besides the forms in Italic black letter etc are all descended from the old Latin A which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha of the same form and this was made from the first letter Aleph and itself from the Egyptian origin The Aleph was a consonant letter with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the 84 sound the Phd2nician alphabet having no vowel symbols |
| A: | An adjective commonly called the indefinite article and signifying one or any but less emphatically |
| A: | In on at by |
| A: | Of |
| A: | A barbarous corruption of have of he and sometimes of it and of they |
| A: | An expletive void of sense to fill up the meter |
| A: | A as a prefix to English words is derived from various sources 1 It frequently signifies on or in from an a forms of AS on denoting a state as in afoot on foot abed amiss asleep aground aloft away AS onweg and analogically ablaze atremble etc 2 AS of off from as in adown AS ofd off the dun or hill 3 AS be Goth us ur Ger er usually giving an intensive force and sometimes the sense of away on back as in arise abide ago 4 Old English y or i corrupted from the AS inseparable particle ge cognate with OHG ga gi Goth ga which as a prefix made no essential addition to the meaning as in aware 5 French 85 L ad to as in abase achieve 6 L a ab abs from as in avert 7 Greek insep prefix abyss atheist akin to E un |
| A: | A registry mark given by underwriters as at Lloyds to ships in firstclass condition Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3 |
| au: | the unit of length equal to the mean distance of the Earth from the sun about 93 million miles 150 million kiometers used almost exclusively in astronomy or to describe astronomical distances |
| AA: | acronym for Associate in Arts a college degree granted for successful completion of a twoyear course of study in arts or general topics |
| Aam: | A Dutch and German measure of liquids varying in different cities being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons at Antwerp 36ab at Hamburg 38ac |
| aardvark: | An edentate mammal of the genus Orycteropus Orycteropus afer somewhat resembling a pig common in some parts of Southern Africa It is a nocturnal ungulate burrows in the ground with its powerful claws and feeds entirely on ants and termites which it catches with its long extensile slimy tongue It is the sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata |
| Aardwolf: | A carnivorous striped quadruped mammal Proteles cristata formerly Proteles Lalandii of South Africa resembling the fox and hyena It feeds chiefly on insects See Proteles |
| Aaronic: | Pertaining to Aaron the first high priest of the Jews |
| Aaronsrod: | A rod with one serpent twined around it thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury which has two |
| AAS: | an associate degree conferred for successful studies in applied science |
| AAAS: | the American Association for the Advancement of Science an organization with headquarters in Washington DC Its goal is to advance the physical and social sciences and it publishes a weekly journal Science with original research articles as well as reviews and commentary |
| aas: | a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth worn by Arabs |
| Ab: | A prefix in many words of Latin origin It signifies from away separating or departure as in abduct abstract abscond See A6 |
| Ab: | The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning the eleventh by the civil computation coinciding nearly with August |
| Abaca: | The Manilahemp plant Musa textilis also its fiber See Manila hemp under Manila |
| Abacinate: | To blind by a redhot metal plate held before the eyes |
| Abacination: | The act of abacinating |
| Abaciscus: | One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement an abaculus |
| Abacist: | One who uses an abacus in casting accounts a calculator |
| Aback: | Toward the back or rear backward |
| Aback: | An abacus |
| Abactinal: | Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal opposed to actinal |
| Abaction: | Stealing cattle on a large scale |
| Abactor: | One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves |
| Abaculus: | A small tile of glass marble or other substance of various colors used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements |
| Abacus: | A table or tray strewn with sand anciently used for drawing calculating etc |
| Abada: | The rhinoceros |
| Abaddon: | The destroyer or angel of the bottomless pit the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus |
| Abaft: | Behind toward the stern from as abaft the wheelhouse |
| Abaft: | Toward the stern aft as to go abaft |
| Abaisance: | Obeisance |
| Abaiser: | Ivory black or animal charcoal |
| Abaist: | Abashed confounded discomfited |
| Abalienate: | To transfer the title of from one to another to alienate |
| Abalienation: | The act of abalienating alienation estrangement |
| Abalone: | A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis The shell is lined with motherofpearl and used for ornamental purposes the seaear Several large species are found on the coast of California clinging closely to the rocks |
| abampere: | a unit of electrical current equal to 10 amperes |
| Aband: | To abandon |
| Abandon: | To cast or drive out to banish to expel to reject |
| Abandon: | Abandonment relinquishment |
| Abandon: | A complete giving up to natural impulses freedom from artificial constraint careless freedom or ease |
| Abandoned: | Forsaken deserted |
| Abandonedly: | Unrestrainedly |
| Abandonee: | One to whom anything is legally abandoned |
| Abandoner: | One who abandons |
| Abandonment: | The act of abandoning or the state of being abandoned total desertion relinquishment |
| Abandum: | Anything forfeited or confiscated |
| Abanet: | See Abnet |
| Abanga: | A West Indian palm also the fruit of this palm the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest |
| Abannation: | Banishment |
| Abarticulation: | Articulation usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint diarthrosis |
| Abased: | Lowered humbled |
| Abasedly: | Abjectly downcastly |
| Abasement: | The act of abasing humbling or bringing low the state of being abased or humbled humiliation |
| Abaser: | He who or that which abases |
| Abash: | To destroy the selfpossession of to confuse or confound as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt mistake or inferiority to put to shame to disconcert to discomfit |
| Abashedly: | In an abashed manner |
| Abashment: | The state of being abashed confusion from shame |
| Abasia: | Inability to co94rdinate muscular actions properly in walking |
| Abassi: | A silver coin of Persia worth about twenty cents |
| Abatable: | Capable of being abated as an abatable writ or nuisance |
| Abate: | To beat down to overthrow |
| Abate: | To decrease or become less in strength or violence as pain abates a storm abates |
| Abate: | Abatement |
| Abatement: | The act of abating or the state of being abated a lessening diminution or reduction removal or putting an end to as the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof |
| Abater: | One who or that which abates |
| Abatis: | A means of defense formed by felled trees the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards or against the enemy |
| Abatised: | Provided with an abatis |
| Abator: | One who abates a nuisance |
| Abattoir: | A public slaughterhouse for cattle sheep etc |
| Abature: | Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them |
| Abatvoix: | The soundingboard over a pulpit or rostrum |
| Abawed: | Astonished abashed |
| Abaxial: | Away from the axis or central line eccentric |
| Abay: | Barking baying of dogs upon their prey See Bay |
| Abb: | Among weavers yarn for the warp Hence abb wool is wool for the abb |
| Abba: | Father religious superior in the Syriac Coptic and Ethiopic churches a title given to the bishops and by the bishops to the patriarch |
| Abbacy: | The dignity estate or jurisdiction of an abbot |
| Abbatial: | Belonging to an abbey as abbatial rights |
| Abbatical: | Abbatial |
| Abb: | The French word answering to the English abbot the head of an abbey but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress |
| Abbess: | A female superior or governess of a nunnery or convent of nuns having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks See Abbey |
| Abbey: | A monastery or society of persons of either sex secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy also the monastic building or buildings |
| Abbot: | The superior or head of an abbey |
| Abbotship: | The state or office of an abbot |
| Abbreviate: | To make briefer to shorten to abridge to reduce by contraction or omission especially of words written or spoken |
| Abbreviate: | Abbreviated abridged shortened |
| Abbreviate: | An abridgment |
| Abbreviated: | Shortened relatively short abbreviate |
| Abbreviation: | The act of shortening or reducing |
| Abbreviator: | One who abbreviates or shortens |
| Abbreviatory: | Serving or tending to abbreviate shortening abridging |
| Abbreviature: | An abbreviation an abbreviated state or form |
| Abbwool: | See Abb |
| ABC: | The first three letters of the alphabet used for the whole alphabet |
| Abdal: | A religious devotee or dervish in Persia |
| Abderian: | Given to laughter inclined to foolish or incessant merriment |
| Abderite: | An inhabitant of Abdera in Thrace |
| Abdest: | Purification by washing the hands before prayer a Mohammedan rite |
| Abdicable: | Capable of being abdicated |
| Abdicant: | Abdicating renouncing followed by of |
| Abdicant: | One who abdicates |
| Abdicate: | To surrender or relinquish as sovereign power to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising as a high office station dignity as to abdicate the throne the crown the papacy |
| Abdicate: | To relinquish or renounce a throne or other high office or dignity |
| Abdication: | The act of abdicating the renunciation of a high office dignity or trust by its holder commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power as abdication of the throne government power authority |
| Abdicative: | Causing or implying abdication |
| Abdicator: | One who abdicates |
| Abditive: | Having the quality of hiding |
| Abditory: | A place for hiding or preserving articles of value |
| Abdomen: | The belly or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis Also the cavity of the belly which is lined by the peritoneum and contains the stomach bowels and other viscera In man often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis the remainder being called the pelvic cavity |
| Abdominal: | Of or pertaining to the abdomen ventral as the abdominal regions muscles cavity |
| Abdominal: | A fish of the group Abdominales |
| Abdominales: | A group including the greater part of freshwater fishes and many marine ones having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals |
| Abdominalia: | A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages |
| Abdominoscopy: | Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease |
| Abdominothoracic: | Relating to the abdomen and the thorax or chest |
| Abdominous: | Having a protuberant belly potbellied |
| abdominousness: | distension of the stomach area due to overweight |
| Abduce: | To draw or conduct away to withdraw to draw to a different part |
| abducens: | a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye |
| abducent: | a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye |
| abducent: | drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part especially of muscles |
| Abduct: | To take away surreptitiously by force to carry away a human being wrongfully and usually by violence to kidnap |
| abducting: | drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part used especially of muscles |
| Abduction: | The act of abducing or abducting a drawing apart a carrying away |
| Abductor: | One who abducts |
| Abeam: | On the beam that is on a line which forms a right angle with the ships keel opposite to the center of the ships side |
| Abear: | To bear to behave |
| Abearance: | Behavior |
| Abearing: | Behavior |
| Abecedarian: | One who is learning the alphabet hence a tyro |
| Abecedarian: | Pertaining to or formed by the letters of the alphabet alphabetic hence rudimentary |
| Abecedary: | A primer the first principle or rudiment of anything |
| Abed: | In bed or on the bed |
| Abegge: | Same as Aby |
| Abele: | The white poplar Populus alba |
| Abelian: | One of a sect in Africa 4th century mentioned by St Augustine who states that they married but lived in continence after the manner as they pretended of Abel |
| Abelmoschus: | genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers |
| Abelmosk: | An evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus formerly Hibiscus moschatus of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee sometimes called musk mallow The seeds produce ambretteseed oil |
| Aberdevine: | The European siskin Carduelis spinus a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch |
| Aberr: | To wander to stray |
| Aberrance: | the state or condition of being aberrant a wandering from the right way deviation from truth rectitude etc |
| aberrancy: | an aberrant state or condition |
| Aberrant: | Wandering straying from the right way |
| Aberrate: | To go astray to diverge |
| Aberration: | The act of wandering deviation especially from truth or moral rectitude from the natural state or from a type |
| Aberrational: | Characterized by aberration |
| Aberuncate: | To weed out |
| Aberuncator: | A weeding machine |
| Abet: | To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance used in a bad sense of persons and acts as to abet an illdoer to abet one in his wicked courses to abet vice to abet an insurrection |
| Abet: | Act of abetting aid |
| Abetment: | The act of abetting as an abetment of treason crime etc |
| Abettal: | Abetment |
| Abetter: | One who abets an instigator of an offense or an offender |
| Abevacuation: | A partial evacuation |
| Abeyance: | Expectancy condition of being undetermined |
| Abeyancy: | Abeyance |
| Abeyant: | Being in a state of abeyance |
| Abgeordnetenhaus: | See Legislature Austria Prussia |
| Abhal: | The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies |
| Abhominable: | Abominable |
| Abhominal: | Inhuman |
| Abhor: | To shrink back with shuddering from to regard with horror or detestation to feel excessive repugnance toward to detest to extremity to loathe |
| Abhor: | To shrink back with horror disgust or dislike to be contrary or averse with |
| Abhorrence: | Extreme hatred or detestation the feeling of utter dislike |
| Abhorrency: | Abhorrence |
| Abhorrent: | Abhorring detesting having or showing abhorrence loathing hence strongly opposed to as abhorrent thoughts |
| Abhorrently: | With abhorrence |
| Abhorrer: | One who abhors |
| Abhorrible: | Detestable |
| Abhorring: | Detestation |
| Abib: | The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year corresponding nearly to our April After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan |
| Abidance: | The state of abiding abode continuance compliance with |
| Abide: | To wait to pause to delay |
| Abide: | To wait for to be prepared for to await to watch for as I abide my time |
| Abider: | One who abides or continues |
| Abiding: | Continuing lasting |
| Abidingly: | Permanently |
| Abies: | A genus of coniferous trees properly called Fir as the balsam fir and the silver fir The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus |
| Abietene: | A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine Pinus sabiniana of California |
| Abietic: | Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products as abietic acid called also sylvic acid |
| Abietin: | A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam It is without taste or smell is insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol especially at the boiling point in strong acetic acid and in ether |
| Abietinic: | Of or pertaining to abietin as abietinic acid |
| Abietite: | A substance resembling mannite found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe Abies pectinata |
| abigail: | A ladys waitingmaid |
| Abiliment: | Habiliment |
| Ability: | The quality or state of being able power to perform whether physical moral intellectual conventional or legal capacity skill or competence in doing sufficiency of strength skill resources etc in the plural faculty talent |
| Abime: | A abyss |
| Abiogenesis: | The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents spontaneous generation called also abiogeny and opposed to biogenesis |
| Abiogenetic: | Of or pertaining to abiogenesis |
| Abiogenist: | One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent |
| Abiogenous: | Produced by spontaneous generation |
| Abiogeny: | Same as Abiogenesis |
| Abiological: | Pertaining to the study of inanimate things |
| Abirritant: | A medicine that diminishes irritation |
| Abirritate: | To diminish the sensibility of to debilitate |
| Abirritation: | A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation debility lack of strength asthenia |
| Abirritative: | Characterized by abirritation or debility |
| Abit: | 3d sing pres of Abide |
| abject: | Cast down lowlying |
| Abject: | To cast off or down hence to abase to degrade to lower to debase |
| Abject: | A person in the lowest and most despicable condition a castaway |
| Abjectedness: | A very abject or low condition abjectness |
| Abjection: | The act of bringing down or humbling |
| Abjectly: | Meanly servilely |
| Abjectness: | The state of being abject abasement meanness servility |
| Abjudge: | To take away by judicial decision |
| Abjudicate: | To reject by judicial sentence also to abjudge |
| Abjudication: | Rejection by judicial sentence |
| Abjugate: | To unyoke |
| Abjunctive: | Exceptional |
| Abjuration: | The act of abjuring or forswearing a renunciation upon oath as abjuration of the realm a sworn banishment an oath taken to leave the country and never to return |
| Abjuratory: | Containing abjuration |
| Abjure: | To renounce upon oath to forswear to disavow as to abjure allegiance to a prince To abjure the realm is to swear to abandon it forever |
| Abjure: | To renounce on oath |
| Abjurement: | Renunciation |
| Abjurer: | One who abjures |
| Ablactate: | To wean |
| Ablactation: | The weaning of a child from the breast or of young beasts from their dam |
| Ablaqueate: | To lay bare as the roots of a tree |
| Ablaqueation: | The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water |
| Ablastemic: | Nongerminal |
| Ablation: | A carrying or taking away removal |
| Ablatitious: | Diminishing as an ablatitious force |
| Ablative: | Taking away or removing |
| Ablative: | The ablative case |
| Ablaut: | The substitution of one root vowel for another thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning vowel permutation as get gat got sing song hang hung |
| Ablaze: | On fire in a blaze gleaming |
| Able: | Fit adapted suitable |
| Able: | To make able to enable to strengthen |
| able: | An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense able to be fit to be expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense as movable able to be moved amendable able to be amended blamable fit to be blamed salable |
| Ablebodied: | Having a sound strong body physically competent robust |
| Ablegate: | To send abroad |
| Ablegate: | A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office |
| Ablegation: | The act of sending abroad |
| Ableminded: | Having much intellectual power |
| Ableness: | Ability of body or mind force vigor |
| Ablepsy: | Blindness |
| Abler: | comp of Able |
| Ablet: | A small freshwater fish Leuciscus alburnus the bleak |
| Abligate: | To tie up so as to hinder from |
| Abligurition: | Prodigal expense for food |
| Ablins: | Perhaps |
| Abloom: | In or into bloom in a blooming state |
| Ablude: | To be unlike to differ |
| Abluent: | Washing away carrying off impurities detergent |
| Ablush: | Blushing ruddy |
| Ablution: | The act of washing or cleansing specifically the washing of the body or some part of it as a religious rite |
| Ablutionary: | Pertaining to ablution |
| Abluvion: | That which is washed off |
| Ably: | In an able manner with great ability as ably done planned said |
| ably: | A suffix composed of able and the adverbial suffix ly as favorably |
| Abnegate: | To deny and reject to abjure |
| Abnegation: | a denial a renunciation |
| Abnegative: | Denying renouncing negative |
| Abnegator: | One who abnegates denies or rejects anything |
| Abnet: | The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer |
| Abnodate: | To clear tress from knots |
| Abnodation: | The act of cutting away the knots of trees |
| Abnormal: | Not conformed to rule or system deviating from the type anomalous irregular |
| abnormalcy: | an abnormal condition |
| Abnormality: | The state or quality of being abnormal variation irregularity |
| Abnormally: | In an abnormal manner irregularly |
| Abnormity: | Departure from the ordinary type irregularity monstrosity |
| Abnormous: | Abnormal irregular |
| Aboard: | On board into or within a ship or boat hence into or within a railway car |
| Aboard: | On board of as to go aboard a ship |
| Abodance: | An omen a portending |
| Abode: | pret of Abide |
| Abode: | Act of waiting delay |
| Abode: | An omen |
| Abode: | To bode to foreshow |
| Abode: | To be ominous |
| Abodement: | A foreboding an omen |
| Aboding: | A foreboding |
| Abolish: | To do away with wholly to annul to make void said of laws customs institutions governments etc as to abolish slavery to abolish folly |
| Abolishable: | Capable of being abolished |
| Abolisher: | One who abolishes |
| Abolishment: | The act of abolishing abolition destruction |
| Abolition: | The act of abolishing or the state of being abolished an annulling abrogation utter destruction as the abolition of slavery or the slave trade the abolition of laws decrees ordinances customs taxes debts etc |
| abolitionary: | relating to or favoring abolition especially the abolition of slavery |
| Abolitionism: | The principles or measures of abolitionists |
| Abolitionist: | A person who favors the abolition of any institution especially negro slavery |
| Abolitionize: | To imbue with the principles of abolitionism |
| Aboma: | A large South American serpent Boa aboma |
| Abomasum: | The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant which leads from the third stomach omasum See Ruminantia |
| Abominable: | Worthy of or causing abhorrence as a thing of evil omen odious in the utmost degree very hateful detestable loathsome execrable |
| Abominableness: | The quality or state of being abominable odiousness |
| Abominably: | In an abominable manner very odiously detestably |
| Abominate: | To turn from as illomened to hate in the highest degree as if with religious dread loathe as to abominate all impiety |
| Abomination: | The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred abhorrence detestation loathing as he holds tobacco in abomination |
| Aboon: | and adv Above |
| Abor: | a language spoken in Northeast India and adjacent regions of West Burma Myanmar |
| Aboral: | Situated opposite to or away from the mouth |
| Abord: | Manner of approaching or accosting address |
| Abord: | To approach to accost |
| Aboriginal: | First original indigenous primitive native as the aboriginal tribes of America |
| Aboriginal: | An original inhabitant of any land one of the aborigines |
| Aboriginality: | The quality of being aboriginal |
| Aboriginally: | Primarily |
| Aborigines: | The earliest known inhabitants of a country native races |
| Aborsement: | Abortment abortion |
| Aborsive: | Abortive |
| Abort: | to cause an action or process to stop at an early stage or before normal completion as to abort a rocket flight |
| Abort: | An untimely birth |
| Aborted: | Brought forth prematurely |
| Aborticide: | The act of destroying a fetus in the womb feticide |
| Abortifacient: | Producing miscarriage |
| Abortion: | The act of giving premature birth particularly the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely or before it is capable of sustaining life miscarriage |
| Abortional: | Pertaining to abortion miscarrying abortive |
| Abortionist: | One who performs or procures abortion among medical personnel also called an abortion provider |
| abortionprovider: | same as abortionist |
| Abortive: | Produced by abortion born prematurely as an abortive child |
| Abortive: | That which is born or brought forth prematurely an abortion |
| Abortively: | In an abortive or untimely manner immaturely fruitlessly |
| Abortiveness: | The quality of being abortive |
| Abortment: | Abortion |
| abortus: | a fetus which has been aborted same as abortion2 |
| Abought: | imp p p of Aby |
| Abound: | To be in great plenty to be very prevalent to be plentiful |
| abounding: | same as abundant |
| About: | On all sides around |
| Aboutsledge: | The largest hammer used by smiths |
| Above: | In or to a higher place higher than on or over the upper surface over opposed to below or beneath |
| Above: | In a higher place overhead into or from heaven as the clouds above |
| Aboveboard: | Above the board or table Hence in open sight without trick concealment or deception |
| Abovecited: | Cited before in the preceding part of a book or writing |
| Abovedeck: | On deck and hence like aboveboard without artifice |
| Abovementioned: | Mentioned or named before aforesaid mentioned or named earlier in the same text in written documents |
| Abovesaid: | Mentioned or recited before |
| Abox: | Braced aback |
| Abra: | A narrow pass or defile a break in a mesa the mouth of a caa4on |
| Abracadabra: | A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning jargon |
| Abradant: | A material used for grinding as emery sand powdered glass etc |
| Abrade: | To rub or wear off to waste or wear away by friction as to abrade rocks |
| Abrade: | Same as Abraid |
| Abrahamic: | Pertaining to Abraham the patriarch as the Abrachamic covenant |
| Abrahamitic: | Relating to the patriarch Abraham |
| Abrahamman: | One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms |
| Abraid: | To awake to arouse to stir or start up also to shout out |
| Abramis: | a genus of European fishes |
| Abranchial: | Abranchiate |
| Abranchiata: | A group of annelids so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration |
| Abranchiate: | Without gills |
| abranchious: | having no gills same as abranchiate |
| Abrase: | Rubbed smooth |
| Abrasion: | The act of abrading wearing or rubbing off the wearing away by friction as the abrasion of coins |
| Abrasive: | Producing abrasion |
| Abraum: | A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium |
| Abraxas: | A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients also a gem stone thus engraved |
| Abray: | See Abraid |
| Abreaction: | the purging of emotional tensions See Catharsis below |
| Abreast: | Side by side with breasts in a line as bdTwo men could hardly walk abreastb8 |
| Abregge: | See Abridge |
| Abrenounce: | To renounce |
| Abrenunciation: | Absolute renunciation or repudiation |
| Abreption: | A snatching away |
| Abreuvoir: | The joint or interstice between stones to be filled with mortar |
| Abricock: | See Apricot |
| Abridge: | To make shorter to shorten in duration to lessen to diminish to curtail as to abridge labor to abridge power or rights |
| abridged: | shortened by condensing or rewriting said of texts |
| abridgement: | a shortened version |
| Abridger: | One who abridges |
| Abridgment: | The act of abridging or the state of being abridged diminution lessening reduction or deprivation as an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses |
| Abroach: | To set abroach to let out as liquor to broach to tap |
| Abroach: | Broached in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor as a cask which is tapped |
| Abroad: | At large widely broadly over a wide space as a tree spreads its branches abroad |
| abrocome: | ratlike rodent of the Andes with soft fur and large ears |
| Abrogable: | Capable of being abrogated |
| Abrogate: | Abrogated abolished |
| Abrogate: | To annul by an authoritative act to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor to repeal applied to the repeal of laws decrees ordinances the abolition of customs etc |
| Abrogation: | The act of abrogating repeal by authority |
| Abrogative: | Tending or designed to abrogate as an abrogative law |
| Abrogator: | One who repeals by authority |
| Abrood: | In the act of brooding |
| Abrook: | To brook to endure |
| Abrupt: | Broken off very steep or craggy as rocks precipices banks precipitous steep as abrupt places |
| Abrupt: | An abrupt place |
| Abrupt: | To tear off or asunder |
| Abruption: | A sudden breaking off a violent separation of bodies |
| Abruptly: | In an abrupt manner without giving notice or without the usual forms suddenly |
| Abruptlypinnate: | pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex ie without an odd leaflet or other appendage at the end said of a leaf shape |
| Abruptness: | The state of being abrupt or broken craggedness ruggedness steepness |
| Abruzzi: | an administrative region of Italy |
| abs: | The abductor muscles of the stomach a contraction used by bodybuilding and health enthusiasts Used similarly to pecs and delts |
| Abscess: | A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body the result of a morbid process |
| Abscession: | A separating removal also an abscess |
| Abscind: | To cut off |
| Abscision: | See Abscission |
| Absciss: | See Abscissa |
| Abscissa: | One of the elements of reference by which a point as of a curve is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co94rdinate axes |
| Abscission: | The act or process of cutting off |
| Abscond: | To hide withdraw or be concealed |
| Abscond: | To hide to conceal |
| Abscondence: | Fugitive concealment secret retirement hiding |
| Absconder: | One who absconds |
| abscondment: | the act of running away sectretly as to avoid arrest |
| Absence: | A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship opposed to presence |
| Absent: | Being away from a place withdrawn from a place not present |
| Absent: | To take or withdraw ones self to such a distance as to prevent intercourse used with the reflexive pronoun |
| Absentaneous: | Pertaining to absence |
| Absentation: | The act of absenting ones self |
| Absentee: | One who absents himself from his country office post or duty especially a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated as an Irish absentee |
| Absenteeism: | The state or practice of an absentee esp the practice of absenting ones self from the country or district where ones estate is situated |
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