Adelaster :: Adelaster (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus..
Alas :: Alas (interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white..
Amphiblastic :: Amphiblastic (a.) Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves..
Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..
Anaclastics :: Anaclastics (n.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.
Anaplastic :: Anaplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
Anaplasty :: Anaplasty (n.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft..
Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..
Anticlastic :: Anticlastic (a.) Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle..
Antigalastic :: Antigalastic (a.) Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.