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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...
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A-POSTERIORI
A-POSTERIORI, [Latin posterior, after.]Arguments a posteriori, are drawn from effect, consequences or facts; in opposition to reasoning a priori, or from causes previously known.
A-RE
A-RE,noun The lowest note but one, in Guido Aretine's scale of music.
AAM
AAM, noun A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.
AARONIC
AARON'IC, adjective Pertaining to Aaron, the Jewish High Priest, or to the priesthood of which he was the head.
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...
ABACIST
AB'ACIST, noun One that casts accounts; a calculator.
ABACK
ABACK, adverb [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...
ABACOT
AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.
ABACTOR
ABAC'TOR, noun [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 stea...
ABACUS
AB'ACUS, noun [Latin 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 tab...
ABADA
AB'ADA, noun 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 resembl...
ABADDON
ABAD'DON, noun [Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. to be lost, or destroyed, to perish.]1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9:11.2. The bottomless pit.
ABAFT
AB'AFT, adverb or preposition [Sax. eft or aeft, again. Hence efter or aefter, after, subsequent; Sax. aeftan, behind in place; to which word be is prefixed - beaeftan, behind, ...
ABAGUN
AB'AGUN, noun 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.
ABAISANCE
ABAISANCE, [See Obeisance.]
ABALIENATION
ABALIENA'TION, noun The transferring of title to property. [See Alienation.]
ABANDON
ABAN'DON, verb transitive [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 an...
ABANDONED
ABAN'DONED, participle passive Wholly forsaken or deserted.2. Given up, as to a vice; hence, extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
ABANDONER
ABAN'DONER, noun One who abandons.
ABANDONING
ABAN'DONING, participle present tense Forsaking or deserting wholly; renouncing; yielding one's self without restraint.ABAN'DONING, noun A forsaking; total desertionHe hoped his...
ABANDONMENT
ABAN'DONMENT, noun1. 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 oth...
ABANGA
ABAN'GA, noun The ady; a species of Palmtree. [See Ady.]
ABANNITION
ABANNI'TION, noun [Low Lat.]A banishment for one or two years for manslaughter. [Not used.]
ABAPTISTON
ABAPTIS'TON, noun The perforating part of the trephine, an instrument used in trepanning.
ABARE
ABA'RE, verb transitive [Sax abarian. See Bare.]To make bare; to uncover. [Not in use.]
ABARTICULATION
ABARTICULA'TION, noun [See Articulate.]In anatomy, that species of articulation or structure of joints, which admits of manifest or extensive motion; called also diarthrosis and...