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- angelot noun A French gold coin from the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael
- anger noun Pain or stinging.
- angry verb To anger.
- anguineal adj Describing a certain type of hyperbola that has a snakelike form
- anhelation noun Mental or spiritual agitation.
- animadvert verb To consider.
- animalcule noun A small animal.
- animalculist noun Someone who studies animalcules.
- animally adv In respect of the anima or animal spirits.
- annal adj Annual; yearly.
- annet noun A black-legged kittiwake.
- annomination noun paronomasia; punning
- annuary adj annual; yearly
- annuloid adj Of or pertaining to the Annuloida, an obsolete classification of various annelids and similar animals.
- anomal noun Something anomalous, especially an irregular word in a language.
- anomuran adj Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen.
- anserine adj Exhibiting goose flesh.
- answer verb To render account to or for.
- Antarctic adj Opposite, contradictory.
- ante-cabinet noun A large saloon placed before the chamber in which the council of a prince or state hold private consultations.
- antecedence noun An apparent motion of a planet toward the west.
- antedate noun anticipation
- antevert verb To prevent, to avert.
- antibiotic adj Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist.
- antic noun A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
- antichemism noun The protoplasm-producing energy, regarded as an antagonizing chemical force; the energy displayed by the elaboration of living from…
- anticipation noun Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
- anticor noun A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart, caused by the friction of a harness.
- antidotary noun An antidote.
- antigenic adj Sexually dimorphic, especially with reference to lepidopterans.
- antigraph noun A copy or transcript.
- antihectic adj Countering hectic fever.
- antimeter noun A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
- antipathy noun A person or thing that has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards another person or thing; a hater.
- antiphysical adj Homosexual
- antique noun A man of ancient times.
- antiquity noun An old gentleman.
- Antiscian noun One of the inhabitants of the Earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.
- any body pron Obsolete form of anybody.
- anyway adv In any way.
- apartment noun A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
- apay verb To repay.
- apertly adv Openly, publicly, without secrecy.
- apheresis noun Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
- aphorism noun The essence or heart of something.
- apopemptic noun A farewell or parting address.
- apophlegmatic adj Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from the mouth or nostrils.
- apophlegmatism noun The action of apophlegmatics.
- aposomatic adj Relating to an aposome
- apostle noun A person who is plucked, that is, refused an academic degree.
- apotelesmatic adj Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
- appair verb To make worse; to injure or damage.
- appall verb To make pale; to blanch.
- apparate noun apparatus
- apparency noun Appearance.
- appealable adj That may be accused or called to answer by appeal.
- appellant noun One who challenges another to single combat.
- appendency noun State of being appendant.
- appendix noun Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
- appension noun The act of appending or attaching.
- apperceive verb To perceive.
- appertinent noun That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.
- applaud noun Applause; applauding.
- applause verb To applaud.
- apple noun In full old apple: a baseball.
- apple midge noun A small dipterous insect (Lycoriella ingenua), the larva of which bores in apples.
- apple-squire noun A male servant of a prostitute.
- applejohn noun A variety of apple which can be kept for a long period, gradually becoming dry and withered; known today as the French crab.
- appliable adj Compliant; accommodating.
- appliance noun The act of applying.
- applicate adj Applied or put to some use.
- application noun Compliance.
- apply verb To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
- appoint verb To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- appointment noun The allowance paid to a public officer.
- appose verb To interrogate; to question.
- apprehend verb To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- apprehended adj Having come to accept an understanding of something.
- apprehensive adj Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
- appropriate adj Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- approvement noun Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- appui noun A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
- apropos noun Fittingness, pertinence.
- apse noun Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
- aptitudinal adj suitable; fit
- aquiferous system noun The water vascular system of echinoderms.
- arage verb To enrage.
- arboreous adj Growing on trees.
- arboret noun A small tree or shrub.
- arch noun A chief.
- archer noun The bishop in chess.
- arctic bear noun A polar bear.
- arder noun plowing or fallowing
- arduous adj burning; ardent
- area sneak noun The practice of breaking into the lower floors of a house via its area to commit theft.
- aread verb To soothsay, prophesy.
- aren verb first-person plural simple present of be
- argue verb To prove.
- argument verb To put forward as an argument; to argue.
- arietation noun The use of a battering ram, or similar.