"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..

"aggregate :: Aggregate (v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. The aggregated soil..

''neath :: 'Neath (prep. & adv.) An abbreviation of Beneath.

''sdeath :: 'Sdeath (interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.

-ate :: -ate () As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated..

-ate :: -ate () As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to)..

-ate :: -ate () As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate..

-ate :: -ate () In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts..

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Abacinate :: Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

Abacination :: Abacination (n.) The act of abacinating.

Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To estrange; to withdraw.

Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To cause alienation of (mind).

Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.

Abannation :: Abannation (n.) Alt. of Abannitio.

Abarticulation :: Abarticulation (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis..

Abatable :: Abatable (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To blunt.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates..

Abate :: Abate (n.) Abatement.

Abated :: Abated (imp. & p. p.) of Abat.

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof..

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