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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,533 words match “RAY”

X-RAY TUBE n.
A vacuum tube suitable for producing Röntgen rays.
ABACUS n. 2 definitions
A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]
ABDEST n.
Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.
ABERR v.
To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
ABERRANT a.
Wandering; straying from the right way.
ABERRATE v.
To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
ABERRATION n.
The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromat…
ABRUPT a.
Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray.
ABRUPTLY adv.
Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.
ABSCOND v.
To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.
ACADEMIST n.
An academician. [Obs.] Ray.
ACADEMY n.
emy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
ACANTHOPHOROUS a.
Spine-bearing. Gray.
ACANTHOPTERYGII n.
An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
ACANTHOPTERYGIOUS a.
Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.
ACAULESCENT a.
Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.
ACCENT n.
nch or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.
ACCIDENTAL a. 2 definitions
ts (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.
ACCOMPLISHMENT n.
y new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.
ACCORD n. 2 definitions
iator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.
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