Aestivate :: Aestivate (v. i.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor.
Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..
Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration..
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.
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..
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..
Avatar :: Avatar (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu..
Avatar :: Avatar (n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.
Binervate :: Binervate (a.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.