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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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49,157 words match “AT”

ATTRIBUTIVELY adv.
In an attributive manner.
ATTRITE a. 2 definitions
Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.
ATTRITION n. 3 definitions
the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.
ATTRITUS n.
Matter pulverized by attrition.
ATTRY a.
Poisonous; malignant; malicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ATTUNE v. 2 definitions
tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
ATWAIN adv.
In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.
ATWEEN adv.
Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.
ATWIRL a.
Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.
ATWITE v.
To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]
ATWIXT adv.
Betwixt. [Obs.] Spenser.
ATWO adv.
In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ATYPIC; ATYPICAL a.
That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
ABACINATE v.
To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]
ABACINATION n.
The act of abacinating. [R.]
ABALIENATE v. 3 definitions
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
ABALIENATION n.
The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]
ABANNATION; ABANNITION n.
Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABARTICULATION n.
Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
ABATABLE a.
Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.
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