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1,163 words match “GETH”

AGGLUTINATE a.
United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
AGGREGATE v.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton.
AGGREGATIVE a.
Taken together; collective.
AGGROUP v.
To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.
AGMINATE; AGMINATED a.
Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
AGONY n.
body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.
AGREE v.
expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.
AHEAP adv.
In a heap; huddled together. Hood.
ALECTRYOMANCY n.
a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.
ALL adv. 2 definitions
Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.
ALLIGATION n.
The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]
ALLOY n.
Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
ALLTHING adv.
Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.
ALONG adv.
In company; together. He to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during 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.…
ALUDEL n.
One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.
AMASSMENT n.
An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.
ANATOMY n.
odies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.
ANCHOR n.
A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
ANCHYLOSE v.
affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.
ANECDOTAGE n.
a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.
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