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ABANDUM n.
Anything forfeited or confiscated.
ACCELERANDO a.
Gradually accelerating the movement.
AD CAPTANDUM n.
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
AFOREHAND adv. 2 definitions
Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
AFRICANDER n.
One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
AGAINSTAND v.
To withstand. [Obs.]
AGGRANDIZABLE a.
Capable of being aggrandized.
AGGRANDIZATION n.
Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
AGGRANDIZE v. 4 definitions
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
AGGRANDIZEMENT n.
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
AGGRANDIZER n.
One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
ALAND adv.
On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.
ALEXANDERS; ALISANDERS n.
A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.
ALEXANDRIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
ALEXANDRINE a. 2 definitions
Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.
ALLEMANDE n. 2 definitions
h in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
ALMANDINE n.
The common red variety of garnet.
AMANDINE n. 2 definitions
A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.
AMPERSAND n.
A word used to describe the character Halliwell.
ANANDROUS a.
Destitute of stamen
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