Acclamation :: Acclamation (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause..

Acclamation :: Acclamation (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy..

Acclamatory :: Acclamatory (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation..

Aceldama :: Aceldama (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed..

Acroamatic :: Acroamatic (a.) Alt. of Acroamatica.

Acroamatical :: Acroamatical (a.) Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound..

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

Adamantean :: Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains..

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Adhamant :: Adhamant (a.) Clinging, as by hooks..

Agama :: Agama (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards..

Alabama Period :: Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic..

Amability :: Amability (n.) Lovableness.

Amacratic :: Amacratic (a.) Amasthenic.

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..

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..

Amain :: Amain (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.

Amain :: Amain (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once..

Amain :: Amain (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc..

Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..

Amalgam :: Amalgam (n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc..

Amalgam :: Amalgam (n.) A mixture or compound of different things.

Amalgam :: Amalgam (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.

Amalgam :: Amalgam (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.

Amalgama :: Amalgama (n.) Same as Amalgam.

Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. t.) To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury..

Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. t.) To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another..

Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. i.) To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver..

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