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abstruseness

the quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

abstrusion

the act of thrusting away.

abstrusity

abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

absume

to consume gradually; to waste away.

absumption

act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

absurd

contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.-an absurdity.

absurdities

of absurdity

absurdity

the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.-that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

absurdly

in an absurd manner.

absurdness

absurdity.

abuna

the patriarch, or head of the abyssinian church.

abundance

an overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

abundant

fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.

abundantly

in a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

aburst

in a bursting condition.

abusable

that may be abused.

abusage

abuse.

abuse

to put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.-to use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.-to revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.-to dishonor.-to violate; to ravish.-to deceive; to impose on.-improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.-physical ill treatment; injury.-a corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.-vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.-violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.

abused

of abuse

abuseful

full of abuse; abusive.

abuser

one who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

abusing

of abuse

abusion

evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.

abusive

wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.-given to misusing; also, full of abuses.-practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.-containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.-tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

abusively

in an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

abusiveness

the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.

abut

to project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

abutilon

a genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also indian mallow.

abutment

state of abutting.-that on or against which a body abuts or presses-the solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.-a fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.-in breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

abuttal

the butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.

abutted

of abut

abutter

one who, or that which, abuts. specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

abutting

of abut

abuzz

in a buzz; buzzing.

aby

alt. of abye

abye

to pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.-to endure; to abide.

abyme

a abyss.

abysm

an abyss; a gulf.

abysmal

pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

abysmally

to a fathomless depth; profoundly.

abyss

a bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.-infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.-the center of an escutcheon.

abyssal

belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

abyssinian

of or pertaining to abyssinia.-a native of abyssinia.-a member of the abyssinian church.

acacia

a roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. it is represented on medals.-a genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. nearly 300 species are australian or polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of america, africa, etc. very few are found in temperate climates.-the inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

acaciae

of acacia

acacias

of acacia

acacin

alt. of acacine

acacine

gum arabic.

academe

an academy.

academial

academic.

academian

a member of an academy, university, or college.

academic

alt. of academical-one holding the philosophy of socrates and plato; a platonist.-a member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

academical

belonging to the school or philosophy of plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.-belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

academically

in an academical manner.

academicals

the articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

academician

a member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the french academy, or the royal academy of arts.-a collegian.

academicism

a tenet of the academic philosophy.-a mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

academies

of academy

academism

the doctrines of the academic philosophy.

academist

an academic philosopher.-an academician.

academy

a garden or grove near athens (so named from the hero academus), where plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which plato was head.-an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.-a place of training; a school.-a society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the french academy; the american academy of arts and sciences; academies of literature and philology.-a school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at west point; a riding academy; the academy of music.

acadian

of or pertaining to acadie, or nova scotia.-a native of acadie.

acajou

the cashew tree; also, its fruit. see cashew.-the mahogany tree; also, its timber.

acaleph

alt. of acalephan

acalephae

a group of coelenterata, including the medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. sometimes called sea nettles.

acalephan

one of the acalephae.

acalephans

of acalephan

acalephoid

belonging to or resembling the acalephae or jellyfishes.

acalephs

of acalephan

acalycine

alt. of acalysinous

acalysinous

without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

acanth

same as acanthus.

acantha

a prickle.-a spine or prickly fin.-the vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

acanthaceous

armed with prickles, as a plant.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

acanthi

of acanthus

acanthine

of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

acanthocarpous

having the fruit covered with spines.

acanthocephala

a group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

acanthocephalous

having a spiny head, as one of the acanthocephala.

acanthophorous

spine-bearing.

acanthopodious

having spinous petioles.

acanthopteri

a group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. see acanthopterygii.

acanthopterous

spiny-winged.-acanthopterygious.

acanthopterygian

belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.-a spiny-finned fish.

acanthopterygii

an order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

acanthopterygious

having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.

acanthus

a genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of europe, asia minor, and india; bear's-breech.-an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the corinthian and composite orders.

acanthuses

of acanthus

acapsular

having no capsule.

acardiac

without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

acari

of acarus

acaridan

one of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

acarina

the group of arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

acarine

of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

acaroid

shaped like or resembling a mite.

acarpellous

having no carpels.

acarpous

not producing fruit; unfruitful.

acarus

a genus including many species of small mites.

acatalectic

not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse.-a verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

acatalepsy

incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.