"adonist :: Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah are really the vowel points of the word Adonai. See Jehovist..
Abaddon :: Abaddon (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against..
Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
Achilles' Tendon :: Achilles' tendon (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx..
Acotyledon :: Acotyledon (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants..
Acotyledonous :: Acotyledonous (a.) Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc..
Acrodont :: Acrodont (n.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
Acrodont :: Acrodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.
Adelocodonic :: Adelocodonic (a.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic..
Adonean :: Adonean (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.
Adonic :: Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty..