Search the Dictionary

rt. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3. Turner.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong- scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. Aromatic compound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many…

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.

Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

, or the purity of a metal. He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.

See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]

Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent. -- n.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.