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1. abator.net - 11/3/2005
abator ( n. ) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.
( n. ) One who abates a nuisance.
2. adenoidal.com - 11/3/2005
adenoidal ( a. ) Glandlike; glandular.
3. adiposity.net - 11/3/2005
adiposity ( n. ) The state of being fat; fatness.
4. adiposity.org - 11/2/2005
adiposity ( n. ) The state of being fat; fatness.
5. agglutinant.com - 11/3/2005
agglutinant ( a. ) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
( n. ) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
6. agglutinate.com - 11/3/2005
agglutinate ( a. ) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.
( a. ) United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
( v. t. ) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
7. algates.com - 11/3/2005
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algates ( adv. ) Always; wholly; everywhere.
( adv. ) By any or means; at all events.
( adv. ) Notwithstanding; yet.
8. alkalization.com - 11/3/2005
alkalization ( n. ) The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
9. allotropism.com - 11/3/2005
allotropism ( n. ) Alt. of Allotropy
10. allurement.net - 11/2/2005
allurement ( n. ) That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
( n. ) The act alluring; temptation; enticement.
11. amidol.com - 11/2/2005
amidol ( n. ) A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.
12. anathematize.com - 11/3/2005
anathematize ( v. t. ) To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed.
13. ancones.com - 11/3/2005
ancones ( pl. ) of Ancon
14. angelophany.com - 11/3/2005
angelophany ( n. ) The actual appearance of an angel to man.
15. anhinga.net - 11/2/2005
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anhinga ( n. ) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
16. anion.org - 11/4/2005
anion ( n. ) An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
17. antecede.com - 11/3/2005
antecede ( v. t. & i. ) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
18. anubiss.com - 11/5/2005
anubis ( n. ) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.
19. apods.com - 11/2/2005
apods ( pl. ) of Apode
20. archpriest.com - 11/3/2005
archpriest ( n. ) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
21. ashlars.net - 11/3/2005
ashlar ( n. ) Alt. of Ashler
22. aspirations.net - 11/3/2005
aspiration ( n. ) The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
( n. ) The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.
( n. ) The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.
23. assentient.com - 11/3/2005
assentient ( a. ) Assenting.
24. athink.com - 11/2/2005
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athink ( v. t. ) To repent; to displease; to disgust.
25. atomize.net - 11/4/2005
atomize ( v. t. ) To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.
26. aufklarung.com - 11/2/2005
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aufklarung ( n. ) A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.
27. aviatress.com - 11/2/2005
aviatress ( n. ) Alt. of Aviatrix
28. avoids.net - 11/2/2005
avoid ( a. ) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
( a. ) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
( a. ) To empty.
( a. ) To get rid of.
( a. ) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
( a. ) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
( a. ) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
( v. i. ) To become void or vacant.
( v. i. ) To retire; to withdraw.
29. avulsion.net - 11/4/2005
avulsion ( n. ) A fragment torn off.
( n. ) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
( n. ) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.
30. balisaur.com - 11/2/2005
balisaur ( n. ) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).
31. banterer.net - 11/3/2005
banterer ( n. ) One who banters or rallies.
32. bemad.net - 11/3/2005
bemad ( v. t. ) To make mad.
33. benjamite.com - 11/4/2005
benjamite ( n. ) A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.
34. bespeckled.com - 11/4/2005
bespeckled ( imp. & p. p. ) of Bespeckle
35. bezant.com - 11/5/2005
bezant ( n. ) A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
( n. ) A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
( n. ) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
36. birdings.com - 11/4/2005
birding ( n. ) Birdcatching or fowling.
37. bizets.net - 11/2/2005
bizet ( n. ) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.
38. bluebacks.com - 11/3/2005
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blueback ( n. ) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
( n. ) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
( n. ) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
39. blued.net - 11/3/2005
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blued ( imp. & p. p. ) of Blue
40. brackets.net - 11/2/2005
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bracket ( n. ) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
( n. ) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
( n. ) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
( n. ) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
( n. ) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
( n. ) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
( n. ) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
( v. t. ) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
( v. t. ) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
41. breadthways.com - 11/3/2005
breadthways ( ads. ) Breadthwise.
42. breloque.com - 11/2/2005
breloque ( n. ) A seal or charm for a watch chain.
43. breviate.com - 11/2/2005
breviate ( n. ) A lawyer's brief.
( n. ) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
( v. t. ) To abbreviate.
44. browbeaten.com - 11/2/2005
browbeaten ( p. p. ) of Browbeat
45. bulwarked.com - 11/4/2005
bulwarked ( imp. & p. p. ) of Bulwark
46. caliver.net - 11/3/2005
Alexa Rank: 743234 Alexa Links: 4
caliver ( n. ) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.
47. cauf.com - 11/3/2005
cauf ( n. ) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
48. centry.org - 11/2/2005
centry ( n. ) See Sentry.
49. chab.net - 11/3/2005
chab ( n. ) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
50. conditionings.net - 11/3/2005
conditioning ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Condition
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