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841 words match “DAL”

APODAN a.
Apodal.
APODOUS a.
Apodal; apod.
APPOSE v.
xamine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.
AQUEOUS a.
ng of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.
ARCHITECTURE n.
ense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.
ARGUMENTATION n.
argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.
ARTHROPODA n.
jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.
ASLEEP a.
Numbed, and, usually, tingling. Udall. Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep. Bacon.
ASSERT v.
nal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.
ASSISH a.
g an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate. Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . . Udall.
ASSOIL v.
H. More. Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor.
ATHERMANCY n.
Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.
AUDITORY n.
An auditorium. Udall.
AUXANOMETER n.
An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.
AVAUNT v.
To depart; to move away. [Obs.] Coverdale.
AWKWARD a.
ides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.
BABEHOOD n.
Babyhood. [R.] Udall.
BAIL n.
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. Holinshed.
BAILEY n.
The outer wall of a feudal castle. [Obs.]
BAILMENT n.
. . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.
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