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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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248 words match “A-”

Same as Hæma-, Hæmo-.

es. -- Hercules' club. (Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis), of the same genus with the prickly ash.

hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.]

HYDROFLUORIC a.

in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.

A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.

IGNIS FATUUS n.

able gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a- lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.

n from an engraved plate, taken on India paper. -- India rubber. See Caoutchouc. -- India-rubber tree (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.

A crystallized substance of the composition C4I4NH, technically tetra-iodo-pyrrol, used like iodoform.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

t. Shak. -- Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story. -- Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell. (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in ill…

JACK-'-LANTERN n.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

JACK-O'-LANTERN n.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot

A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judæ, or Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the human ear.

inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. -- Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.