Accipiter :: Accipiter (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Accipiter :: Accipiter (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk..

Accipiters :: Accipiters (pl. ) of Accipite.

Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (a.) Alt. of Alexiterica.

Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..

Alexiterical :: Alexiterical (a.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

Alliteral :: Alliteral (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration..

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..

Alliteration :: 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: -.

Alliterative :: Alliterative (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry..

Alliterator :: Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.

Arbiter :: Arbiter (n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them..

Arbiter :: Arbiter (n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited..

Arbiter :: Arbiter (v. t.) To act as arbiter between.

Backbiter :: Backbiter (n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Baiter :: Baiter (n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

Benefiter :: Benefiter (n.) One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit..

Biliteral :: Biliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb..

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

Biliteralism :: Biliteralism (n.) The property or state of being biliteral.

Biter :: Biter (n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish..

Biter :: Biter (n.) One who cheats; a sharper.

Biternate :: Biternate (a.) Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets..

Cassiterite :: Cassiterite (n.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black..

Centiliter :: Centiliter (n.) Alt. of Centilitr.

Chapiter :: Chapiter (n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

Chapiter :: Chapiter (n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles..

Circuiter :: Circuiter (n.) One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge..

Citer :: Citer (n.) One who cites.

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