Abature :: Abature (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

Absquatulate :: Absquatulate (v. i.) To take one's self off; to decamp.

Acciaccatura :: Acciaccatura (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura..

Acclimature :: Acclimature (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated..

Adjudicature :: Adjudicature (n.) Adjudication.

Admittatur :: Admittatur (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Affatuate :: Affatuate (v. t.) To infatuate.

Afflatus :: Afflatus (n.) A breath or blast of wind.

Afflatus :: Afflatus (n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.

Ageratum :: Ageratum (n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters..

Alcoholature :: Alcoholature (n.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

Antestature :: Antestature (n.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth..

Apparatus :: Apparatus (pl. ) of Apparatu.

Apparatus :: Apparatus (n.) Things provided as means to some end.

Apparatus :: Apparatus (n.) Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism..

Apparatus :: Apparatus (n.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus..

Apparatuses :: Apparatuses (pl. ) of Apparatu.

Appoggiatura :: Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony..

Armature :: Armature (n.) Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants..

Armature :: Armature (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force..

Armature :: Armature (n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc..

Batule :: Batule (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

Breviature :: Breviature (n.) An abbreviature; an abbreviation.

Buffing Apparatus :: Buffing apparatus () See Buffer, 1..

Candidature :: Candidature (n.) Candidacy.

Capillature :: Capillature (n.) A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.

Caricature :: Caricature (v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture..

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