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15,763 words match “OD”

AESTHESODIC a.
Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.
AFFODILL n.
Asphodel. [Obs.]
AGOOD adv.
In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.
ALABAMA PERIOD n.
A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
ALAMODALITY n.
The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.
ALAMODE adv. 2 definitions
According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.
ALLOD n.
See Allodium.
ALLODIAL a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.
ALLODIALISM n.
The allodial system.
ALLODIALIST n.
One who holds allodial land.
ALLODIALLY adv.
By allodial tenure.
ALLODIARY n.
One who holds an allodium.
ALLODIUM n.
Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.
ALOES WOOD n.
See Agalloch.
AMBLYPODA n.
A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
AMBOYNA WOOD n.
A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.
AMETHODIST n.
One without method; a quack. [Obs.]
AMMODYTE n. 2 definitions
One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.
AMPHIARTHRODIAL a.
Characterized by amphiarthrosis.
AMPHIPOD n.
One of the Amphipoda.
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