Absonant :: Absonant (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Absonous :: Absonous (a.) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

Adansonia :: Adansonia (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth..

Addison's Disease :: Addison's disease () A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal..

Advowson :: Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.].

Altisonant :: Altisonant (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.

Altisonous :: Altisonous (a.) Altisonant.

Antimason :: Antimason (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry.

Antimasonry :: Antimasonry (n.) Opposition to Freemasonry.

Armisonant :: Armisonant (a.) Alt. of Armisonou.

Armisonous :: Armisonous (a.) Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.

Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..

Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.

Assonance :: Assonance (n.) Resemblance of sound.

Assonance :: Assonance (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary..

Assonance :: Assonance (n.) Incomplete correspondence.

Assonant :: Assonant (a.) Having a resemblance of sounds.

Assonant :: Assonant (a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Assonantal :: Assonantal (a.) Assonant.

Assonate :: Assonate (v. i.) To correspond in sound.

Ausonian :: Ausonian (a.) Italian.

Bason :: Bason (n.) A basin.

Bawson :: Bawson (n.) A badger.

Bawson :: Bawson (n.) A large, unwieldy person..

Benison :: Benison (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

Bison :: Bison (n.) The aurochs or European bison.

Bison :: Bison (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers..

Bisson :: Bisson (a.) Purblind; blinding.

Boson :: Boson (n.) See Boatswain.

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A chest to hold ammunition.

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