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505 words match “TIRE”

ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE v.
To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.
ACROPODIUM n.
The entire upper surface of the foot.
ACTINOSOME n.
The entire body of a coelenterate.
ADD v.
append, as a statement; to say further. He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. Macaulay.
ADESMY n.
The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
ADIGHT v.
To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]
AEROPHYTE n.
A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
AGUISE v.
To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.
AIM v.
an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).
AIR-TIGHT n.
A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]
ALIMENTARY a.
n of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.
ALL adv. 3 definitions
Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.
AMPHIGAMOUS a.
Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
AMUCK a.
and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.
ANAESTHESIA n.
Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.
ANALOGY n.
likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
ANGER n.
o do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.
ANTLER n.
The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.
APART adv.
ace or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3.
APOCARPOUS a.
Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.
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