Acinaceous :: Acinaceous (a.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them..

Acinaces :: Acinaces (n.) A short sword or saber.

Acinaciform :: Acinaciform (a.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf..

Alcyonacea :: Alcyonacea (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria..

Almanac :: Almanac (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc..

Almond Furnace :: Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter..

Alternacy :: Alternacy (n.) Alternateness; alternation.

Anacamptic :: Anacamptic (a.) Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo)..

Anacamptically :: Anacamptically (adv.) By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically..

Anacamptics :: Anacamptics (n.) The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics..

Anacamptics :: Anacamptics (n.) The science of reflected sounds.

Anacanthini :: Anacanthini (n. pl.) Alt. of Anacanth.

Anacanthous :: Anacanthous (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes..

Anacanths :: Anacanths (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod..

Anacardiaceous :: Anacardiaceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples..

Anacardic :: Anacardic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid..

Anacardium :: Anacardium (n.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (a.) Producing vomiting or expectoration.

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (n.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Anacharis :: Anacharis (n.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme..

Anachoret :: Anachoret (a.) Alt. of Anachoretica.

Anachoretical :: Anachoretical (a.) See Anchoret, Anchoretic..

Anachorism :: Anachorism (n.) An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.

Anachronic :: Anachronic (a.) Alt. of Anachronica.

Anachronical :: Anachronical (a.) Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic..

Anachronism :: Anachronism (n.) A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation..

Anachronistic :: Anachronistic (a.) Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

Anachronize :: Anachronize (v. t.) To refer to, or put into, a wrong time..

Anachronous :: Anachronous (a.) Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves..

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