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ACULEATE a. 3 definitions
Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
ACULEATED a.
Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
ACULEOLATE a.
Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.
ACUMINATE a. 3 definitions
Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
ACUTIFOLIATE a.
Having sharp-pointed leaves.
ACUTILOBATE a.
Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
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.
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.
ADFILIATED a.
See Affiliated. [Obs.]
ADIPOCERATE v.
To convert adipocere.
ADJUDICATE v. 2 definitions
To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
ADJUGATE v.
To yoke to. [Obs.]
ADMARGINATE v.
To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.
ADMINISTRATE v.
To administer. [R.] Milman.
ADNATE a. 3 definitions
Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.
ADNUBILATED a.
Clouded; obscured. [R.]
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