Artiodactylous (a.) Even-toed.
Artisan (n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.
Artisan (n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
Artist (n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
Artist (n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
Artist (n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
Artist (n.) An artful person; a schemer.
Artiste (n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.
Artistic (a.) Alt. of Artistical
Artistical (a.) Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill.
Artistry (n.) Works of art collectively.
Artistry (n.) Artistic effect or quality.
Artistry (n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.
Artless (a.) Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Artless (a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
Artless (a.) Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
Artlessly (adv.) In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly.
Artlessness (n.) The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
Artly (adv.) With art or skill.
Artocarpeous (a.) Alt. of Artocarpous
Artocarpous (a.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.
Artotype (n.) A kind of autotype.
Artotyrite (n.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]
Artow () A contraction of art thou.
Artsman (n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.
Art union () An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
Arum (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.
Arundelian (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
Arundiferous (a.) Producing reeds or canes.
Arundinaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
Arundineous (a.) Abounding with reeds; reedy.
Aruspices (pl. ) of Aruspex
Aruspex (n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.
Aruspice (n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.
Aruspicy (n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
Arval (n.) A funeral feast.
Arvicole (n.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.
Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
Aryan (n.) The language of the original Aryans.
Aryan (a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
Aryanize (v. t.) To make Aryan (a language, or in language).
Arytenoid (a.) Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.
As (adv. & conj.) Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
As (adv. & conj.) In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
As (adv. & conj.) While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
As (adv. & conj.) Because; since; it being the case that.
As (adv. & conj.) Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
As (adv. & conj.) That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
As (adv. & conj.) As if; as though.
As (adv. & conj.) For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
As (adv. & conj.) Than.
As (adv. & conj.) Expressing a wish.
As (n.) An ace.
Asses (pl. ) of As
As (n.) A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
As (n.) A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.
Asa (n.) An ancient name of a gum.
Asafetida (n.) Alt. of Asafoetida
Asafoetida (n.) The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
Asaphus (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.
Asarabacca (n.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.
Asarone (n.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.
Asbestic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.
Asbestiform (a.) Having the form or structure of asbestus.
Asbestine (a.) Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.
Asbestous (a.) Asbestic.
Asbestus (n.) Alt. of Asbestos
Asbestos (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.
Asbolin (n.) A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
Ascarides (pl. ) of Ascarid
Ascarid (n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
Ascended (imp. & p. p.) of Ascend
Ascending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascend
Ascend (v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
Ascend (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Ascendable (a.) Capable of being ascended.
Ascendancy (n.) Alt. of Ascendance
Ascendance (n.) Same as Ascendency.
Ascendant (n.) Ascent; height; elevation.
Ascendant (n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
Ascendant (n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
Ascendant (a.) Alt. of Ascendent
Ascendent (a.) Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
Ascendent (a.) Rising; ascending.
Ascendent (a.) Superior; surpassing; ruling.
Ascendency (n.) Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.
Ascendible (a.) Capable of being ascended; climbable.
Ascending (a.) Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.
Ascension (n.) The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
Ascension (n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
Ascension (n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Ascensional (a.) Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.
Ascensive (a.) Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Ascensive (a.) Augmentative; intensive.
Ascent () The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
Ascent () The way or means by which one ascends.
Ascent () An eminence, hill, or high place.
Ascent () The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.