Acrolein :: Acrolein (n.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating..

Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..

Adolescency :: Adolescency (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Adolescent :: Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

Adolescent :: Adolescent (n.) A youth.

Air Hole :: Air hole () A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over..

Air Hole :: Air hole () A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole..

Alepole :: Alepole (n.) A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.

Alveole :: Alveole (n.) Same as Alveolus.

Amphibole :: Amphibole (n.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constit

Antimetabole :: Antimetabole (n.) A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

Antipole :: Antipole (n.) The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.

Antiscoletic :: Antiscoletic (a.) Alt. of Antiscoli.

Arboricole :: Arboricole (a.) Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.

Areole :: Areole (n.) Same as Areola.

Areolet :: Areolet (n.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins..

Armhole :: Armhole (n.) The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

Armhole :: Armhole (n.) A hole for the arm in a garment.

Arteriole :: Arteriole (n.) A small artery.

Arvicole :: Arvicole (n.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.

Asterolepis :: Asterolepis (n.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone..

Asystole :: Asystole (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

Aureole :: Aureole (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil..

Aureole :: Aureole (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence..

Aureole :: Aureole (n.) A halo, actual or figurative..

Aureole :: Aureole (n.) See Areola, 2..

Azarole :: Azarole (n.) The Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit..

Azoleic :: Azoleic (a.) Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid.

Baltimore Oriole :: Baltimore oriole () A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin..

Banderole :: Banderole (n.) Alt. of Bandro.

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