| abab |
a sailor who plies in coasting craft. |
| abac |
(mathematics) A nomogram. |
| abaca |
Tropical plant native to the Philippines grown for its textile and papermaking fibre (Musa textilis) also called Manila hemp. |
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| abaci |
Irregular plural of abacus |
| abacinate |
(torture) to blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyesWebster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1998, MICRA, Inc.) at dictionary.com. |
| abacinated |
Simple past and past participle of to abacinate. |
| abacinates |
Third-person singular simple present of to abacinate. |
| abacinating |
Present participle of abacinate. |
| abacination |
The act of abacinating |
| abaciscus |
One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. |
| abacist |
One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator. |
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| aback |
(Rare) Towards the back or rear; backwards; away. |
| abackward |
(archaic) . |
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| abacterial |
Not caused by or characterized by the presence of bacteria. |
| abactinal |
(Zoölogy): Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. |
| abaction |
Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abactor |
(law; obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. |
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| abaculi |
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| abaculus |
(Archaic): A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. - Fairholt. |
| abacus |
(obsolete) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. |
| abacus harmonicus |
(music) An ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. - Crabb |
| abacuses |
Plural of abacus |
| abada |
(Obsolete): The rhinoceros. - Purchas. |
| Abaddon |
The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| abaddons |
Plural of abaddon |
| abaft |
toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of |
| abagun |
a type of fowl, Bagrus docmak, found in Nigeria |
| abaisance |
(Obsolete): Obeisance |
| abaiser |
Ivory black or animal charcoal. - Weale. |
| abaisse |
The instance when the fess, or any other ordinary properly placed above the fess point of the shield, is brought below it. |
| Abakan |
A city in South central Russia, capital of the Khakass Republic. |
| abalienate |
(Civil Law) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. |
| abalienation |
(Obsolete): The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abalone |
An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. |
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| abamp |
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| abampere |
Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units. |
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| aband |
To abandon. |
| abanded |
Simple past and past participle of to aband. |
| abandees |
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| abanding |
Present participle of to aband. |
| abandon |
To give up control of, to surrender. |
| abandoned |
, deserted. |
| abandonedly |
Unrestrainedly. |
