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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,459 words match “SAT”

TRANSATLANTIC a. 2 definitions

Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.

TRANSVASATION n.

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Holland.

UNDERSATURATED a.

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

UNSATIABILITY n.

Quality of being unsatiable; insatiability. [Obs.]

Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Insatiate. Dr. H. More.

UNSATISFACTION n.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

UNSATURATED a. 2 definitions

Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution.

UNSATURATION n.

The quality or state of being unsaturated.

To caper or frolic. [Obs.]

VERSATILE a. 4 definitions

Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; inconstant; as versatile disposition.

The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT n.

A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accide…

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak.

The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

ACCEPTABLY adv.

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

ACCIDENTAL a. 2 definitions

sibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane;…

se. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.