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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,357 words match “ADD”

AFFRONT v. 2 definitions

How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

AFOREMENTIONED a.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

AGGENERATION n.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

AGGRAVATE v. 2 definitions

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

AGGRAVATION n. 2 definitions

d of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.

AGNOMEN n. 2 definitions

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

A saddlebag. [Sp. Amer.]

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

ALLOCUTION n. 2 definitions

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.]

ALLOW v. 2 definitions

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculat…

uring the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.