A bringing into action; movement.

One who actuates, or puts into action.

Very active.

Abundant activity.

Action.

Tendency or impulse to act.

Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

Act of sharpening.

The act of sharpening.

Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

A small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Like a prickle.

Having small prickles or sharp points.

Aculeate.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

To end in, or come to, a sharp point.

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

Terminating in a flat, narrow end.

Characterized by acumen; keen.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.

See Acupuncture.

To treat with acupuncture.

See Accustomance.

Acute-angled.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

Having sharp-pointed leaves.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.

Not cyclic; not disposed in cycles or whorls Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle. Having an open-chain structure; aliphatic.

An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl. An acyl radical can be depicted as R-CO-, where -CO- is the carbonyl group, and R is the group that characterizes the acyl moiety.

To compel; to drive.

Without fingers or without toes. Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

the Babylonian god of storms and wind.

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.

A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

North American orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers.

same as adamancy.

obstinacy.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

Dancing.

Dangling.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, Adansonia digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and Adansonia Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

a demigod or first man: "seed of mankind"; sometimes identified with Adam.

extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs and lorises; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins.

To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

Capable of being adapted.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.

having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.

Adaptive.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

One who adapts.

Adaptation.

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

an optical system used in some telescopes since the 1980's which rapidly changes the shape of the primary reflecting mirror to adjust for distortions of light which are caused by atmospheric turbulence. By reducing the distortions caused by the atmosphere, telescopes fitted with such optics can achieve a higher resolving power than normal telescopes with static mirrors.

the evolutionary generation of multiple specialized life forms from one ancestral form, evidenced in the fossil record. The inverse of extinction.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

In a suitable manner.

Adaptedness.

Adaptive.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.

A fine cotton cloth of India.

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.

To awaken; to arouse.

By day, or every day; in the daytime.

To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.

Addible.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragusnasomaculatus or Oryx nasomaculatus).

being in addition [to something else]

To award; to adjudge.

a number that is added to another number.

A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

A serpent.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition.

Capable of being added.

See Adze.

To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

The capital city of Ethiopia. Population (2000) = 2,200,186.

An addition, or a thing added.

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Something added.

By way of addition.

Additional.

Additive.

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Tending to add; making some addition.

To earn by labor.

A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

Dull-witted; stupid.

Stupidity.

Earnings.

To adjudge.

Set or turned back to back.

To prepare one's self.

marked with a destination; -- of mail

One to whom anything is addressed.

The act of addressing or directing one's course.

a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing.

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

One who adduces.

Capable of being adduced.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line.