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- English Word Aloof Definition Away from; clear from.
- English Word Aloofness Definition State of being aloof.
- English Word Alopecia Definition Alt. of Alopecy
- English Word Alopecist Definition A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.
- English Word Alopecy Definition Loss of the hair; baldness.
- English Word Alose Definition To praise.
- English Word Alose Definition The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.
- English Word Alouatte Definition One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.
- English Word Aloud Definition With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
- English Word Alow Definition Below; in a lower part.
- English Word Alp Definition A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
- English Word Alp Definition Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
- English Word Alp Definition A bullfinch.
- English Word Alpaca Definition An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
- English Word Alpaca Definition Wool of the alpaca.
- English Word Alpaca Definition A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
- English Word Alpen Definition Of or pertaining to the Alps.
- English Word Alpenstock Definition A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
- English Word Alpestrine Definition Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.
- English Word Alpha Definition The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
- English Word Alphabet Definition The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
- English Word Alphabet Definition The simplest rudiments; elements.
- English Word Alphabet Definition To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
- English Word Alphabetarian Definition A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
- English Word Alphabetic Definition Alt. of Alphabetical
- English Word Alphabetical Definition Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.
- English Word Alphabetical Definition Literal.
- English Word Alphabetically Definition In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
- English Word Alphabetics Definition The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
- English Word Alphabetism Definition The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.