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3,668 words match “SAM”

ALCAHEST n.
Same as Alkahest.
ALCAYDE n.
Same as Alcaid.
ALCOHOMETER; ALCOHOMETRIC n.
Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.
ALDOL n.
taldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.
ALFILERIA; ALFILERILLA n.
Same as Alfilaria.
ALGUM n.
Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.
ALIEN a.
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
ALIKE adv.
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne.
ALIMONY n.
for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.
ALINEMENT n.
Same as Alignment.
ALKALI n.
hanging reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.
ALKARGEN n.
Same as Cacodylic acid.
ALKORAN n.
The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.
ALKORANIC a.
Same as Alcoranic.
ALKORANIST n.
Same as Alcoranist.
ALL adv.
- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference…
ALL FOURS n.
e two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.
ALLER a.
Same as Alder, of all. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ALLITERATION n.
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.
ALLOGAMY n.
Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
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