Affidavit :: Affidavit (n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate..

Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses..

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify..

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances..

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

Aggravated :: Aggravated (imp. & p. p.) of Aggravat.

Aggravating :: Aggravating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggravat.

Aggravating :: Aggravating (a.) Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances..

Aggravating :: Aggravating (a.) Exasperating; provoking; irritating.

Aggravatingly :: Aggravatingly (adv.) In an aggravating manner.

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences..

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) Exaggerated representation.

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) Provocation; irritation.

Aggravative :: Aggravative (a.) Tending to aggravate.

Aggravative :: Aggravative (n.) That which aggravates.

Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..

Antislavery :: Antislavery (a.) Opposed to slavery.

Antislavery :: Antislavery (n.) Opposition to slavery.

Architrave :: Architrave (n.) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column..

Architrave :: Architrave (n.) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form..

Architraved :: Architraved (a.) Furnished with an architrave.

Atavic :: Atavic (a.) Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism..

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form..

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..

Autoclave :: Autoclave (n.) A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

Ava :: Ava (n.) Same as Kava.

Avadavat :: Avadavat (n.) Same as Amadavat.

Avaiably :: Avaiably (adv.) In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

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