Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..

Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..

Achlamydate :: Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

Achlamydeous :: Achlamydeous (a.) Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla..

Adenotomy :: Adenotomy (n.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands..

Adesmy :: Adesmy (n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

Adynamy :: Adynamy (n.) Adynamia.

Agronomy :: Agronomy (n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

Alchymy :: Alchymy (n.) See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy..

Allogamy :: Allogamy (n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Amy :: Amy (n.) A friend.

Amyelous :: Amyelous (a.) Wanting the spinal cord.

Amygdalaceous :: Amygdalaceous (a.) Akin to, or derived from, the almond..

Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds..

Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (n.) An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (n.) A salt amygdalic acid.

Amygdalic :: Amygdalic (a.) Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid..

Amygdaliferous :: Amygdaliferous (a.) Almond-bearing.

Amygdalin :: Amygdalin (n.) A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance..

Amygdaline :: Amygdaline (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds..

Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..

Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (a.) Alt. of Amygdaloida.

Amygdaloidal :: Amygdaloidal (a.) Almond-shaped.

Amygdaloidal :: Amygdaloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid..

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