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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



958 words match “NATIVE”

AFRICAN n.
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
AFRICANDER n.
ng of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
AGGLUTINATION n.
ich root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
AILANTUS n.
A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di
ALBANIAN a.
A native of Albania.
ALGERIAN a.
A native of Algeria.
ALGERINE n.
A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.
ALOE n.
eous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
AMALGAM n.
A native compound of mercury and silver.
AMERICAN a. 2 definitions
ce of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.
AMIGO n.
A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.
ANACHARIS n.
A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
ANAMESE a.
A native of Anam.
ANATRON n.
Native carbonate of soda; natron.
ANGEVINE a.
Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou.
ANGLESITE n.
A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
ANISE n.
la anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.
ANTHROPOMORPHIZE v.
To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.
ANTIPHYSICAL a.
Relieving flatulence; carminative.
APACHES n.
A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.
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