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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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49,157 words match “AT”

ACUPUNCTURATION n.
See Acupuncture.
ACUTIFOLIATE a.
Having sharp-pointed leaves.
ACUTILOBATE a.
Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
ADAPTATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.
ADAPTATIVE a.
Adaptive. Stubbs.
ADATIS n.
A fine cotton cloth of India.
ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE n.
A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]
ADDLE-BRAINED; ADDLE-HEADED; ADDLE-PATED a.
Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.
ADDLE-PATEDNESS n.
Stupidity.
ADENOPATHY n.
Disease of a gland.
ADEQUATE a. 3 definitions
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.
ADEQUATELY adv.
In an adequate manner.
ADEQUATENESS n.
The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
ADEQUATION n.
The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.
ADFILIATED a.
See Affiliated. [Obs.]
ADFILIATION n.
See Affiliation. [Obs.]
ADHORTATION n.
Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.
ADHORTATORY a.
Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.
ADIABATIC a.
Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.
ADIATHERMIC a.
Not pervious to heat.
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