Aggeneration :: Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.

Attorney-general :: Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required..

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Congeneracy :: Congeneracy (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity.

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

Degenerate :: Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low..

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

Degenerated :: Degenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Degenerat.

Degenerately :: Degenerately (adv.) In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degenerateness :: Degenerateness (n.) Degeneracy.

Degenerating :: Degenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerat.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.

Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state..

Degenerative :: Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Genera :: Genera (n. pl.) See Genus.

Genera :: Genera (pl. ) of Genu.

Generability :: Generability (n.) Capability of being generated.

Generable :: Generable (a.) Capable of being generated or produced.

General :: General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy..

General :: General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion..

General :: General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression..

General :: General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom..

General :: General (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire..

General :: General (a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.

General :: General (a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method..

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