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RESUSCITATOR n.
One who, or that which, resuscitates.
ACCIPITRES n.
They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.
ACCRESCE v. 2 definitions
To accrue. [R.]
ACCRESCENCE n.
Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.
ACCRESCENT a. 2 definitions
Growing; increasing. Shuckford.
ACTRESS n. 2 definitions
A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.
ACUPRESSURE n.
A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.
ADDRESS v. 18 definitions
To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.
ADDRESSEE n.
One to whom anything is addressed.
ADDRESSION n.
The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.
ADPRESS v.
See Appressed. -- Ad*pressed",, a.
ADULATRESS n.
A woman who flatters with servility.
ADULTERESS n. 2 definitions
A woman who commits adultery.
ADVENTURESOME a.
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
ADVENTURESS n.
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
ADVOUTRESS n.
An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.
AFFOREST v.
To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
AFFORESTATION n.
The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.
AFORESAID a.
Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.
AFRESH adv.
Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.
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