The quality of being abstract.

To unbind.

To thrust away.

Concealed or hidden out of the way.

In an abstruse manner.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

The act of thrusting away.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

To consume gradually; to waste away.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

An absurdity.

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

In an absurd manner.

Absurdity.

The capital city of United Arab Emirates. Population (2000) = 363,432.

a genus comprising the damsel fishes.

The capital city of Nigeria. Population (2000) = 339,000.

An abnormally intense inability to make decisions; severe irresolution.

showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

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

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

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

In a bursting condition.

That may be abused.

Abuse.

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.

Full of abuse; abusive.

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

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

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

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

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

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

State of abutting.

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

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

In a buzz; buzzing.

atone for, make amends for

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.

A abyss.

An abyss; a gulf.

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

To a fathomless depth; profoundly.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

same as Ethiopia.

A native of Abyssinia.

the chemical symbol for actinum, a radioactive element.

an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally. Alternative to direct curent, DC.

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.

Gum arabic.

An academy.

Academic.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

In an academical manner.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy.

A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

An Academic philosopher.

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.

the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A native of Acadie.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew. The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

A group of C/lenterata, including the Medus/ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

One of the Acaleph/.

Belonging to or resembling the Acaleph/ or jellyfishes.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Same as Acanthus.

A prickle.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

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

Having the fruit covered with spines.

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

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

a genus of Australian elapid snakes.

Spine-bearing.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Spiny-winged.

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

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

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

shaped like a spine or thorn

a family of fishes consisting of the surgeonfishes.

type genus of the family Acanthuridae; doctorfishes.

Having no capsule.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks.

the family of arachnids of the order Acarina consisting of mites.

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

The order of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

A member of the order Acarina.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

Having no carpels. Opposite of carpellate.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

A genus including many species of small mites.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

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

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

See Caterer.

See Cates.

Tailless.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

Same as Acaulescent.

Same as Acaulescent.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

The act of acceding.

One who accedes.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

caused to move faster

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.