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ASCERTAINMENT n.
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
ATTAIN v. 9 definitions
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson.
ATTAINABILITY n.
The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.
ATTAINABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.
ATTAINABLENESS n.
The quality of being attainable; attainability.
ATTAINDER n. 2 definitions
The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.
ATTAINMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones.
ATTAINT v. 12 definitions
To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]
ATTAINTMENT n.
Attainder; attainture; conviction.
ATTAINTURE n.
Attainder; disgrace.
AVENTAIL n.
The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
BACK STAIRS n.
Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
BACKSTAIRS; BACKSTAIR a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.
BATAILLED a.
Embattled. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BATTAILANT a. 2 definitions
Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.
BATTAILOUS a.
Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.
BESTAIN v.
To stain.
BETAINE n.
A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.
BLACKTAIL n. 2 definitions
The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
BOAT-TAIL n.
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
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