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An :: An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as twice an hour, once an age, a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every..

Vocative :: Vocative (a.) Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord..

Adjective :: Adjective (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence..

Adjectived :: Adjectived (imp. & p. p.) of Adjectiv.

Adobe :: Adobe (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico..

Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance..

Half-caste :: Half-caste (n.) One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents..

Which :: Which (a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1..

Teleost :: Teleost (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

Thin :: Thin (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Rhematic :: Rhematic (a.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives..

Declension :: Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases..

Attribute :: Attribute (n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective..

Pureness :: Pureness (n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

Lepadoid :: Lepadoid (n.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively..

Zeugma :: Zeugma (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, hic illius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma..

Stiffener :: Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective..

Resuscitant :: Resuscitant (n.) One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively..

Zinco- :: Zinco- () A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively..

Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

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