Adjutant :: Adjutant (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty..
Adjutant :: Adjutant (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits..
Amplectant :: Amplectant (a.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils..
Annuitant :: Annuitant (n.) One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity..
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..
Antanagoge :: Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge..
Aquitanian :: Aquitanian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony..