Abaca :: Abaca (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila..

Abracadabra :: Abracadabra (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

Acacia :: Acacia (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals..

Acacia :: Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates..

Acacia :: Acacia (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic..

Acaciae :: Acaciae (pl. ) of Acaci.

Acacias :: Acacias (pl. ) of Acaci.

Acacin :: Acacin (n.) Alt. of Acacin.

Acacine :: Acacine (n.) Gum arabic.

Academe :: Academe (n.) An academy.

Academial :: Academial (a.) Academic.

Academian :: Academian (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college..

Academic :: Academic (a.) Alt. of Academica.

Academic :: Academic (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academic :: Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician..

Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy..

Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific..

Academically :: Academically (adv.) In an academical manner.

Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Academician :: Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts..

Academician :: Academician (n.) A collegian.

Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Academies :: Academies (pl. ) of Academ.

Academism :: Academism (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

Academist :: Academist (n.) An Academic philosopher.

Academist :: Academist (n.) An academician.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..

Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.

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