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- English Word Arundineous Definition Abounding with reeds; reedy.
- English Word Aruspex Definition One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.
- English Word Aruspice Definition A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.
- English Word Aruspices Definition of Aruspex
- English Word Aruspicy Definition Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
- English Word Arval Definition A funeral feast.
- English Word Arvicole Definition A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.
- English Word Aryan Definition One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
- English Word Aryan Definition The language of the original Aryans.
- English Word Aryan Definition Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
- English Word Aryanize Definition To make Aryan (a language, or in language).
- English Word Arytenoid Definition Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.
- English Word As Definition Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
- English Word As Definition In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
- English Word As Definition While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
- English Word As Definition Because; since; it being the case that.
- English Word As Definition Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
- English Word As Definition That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
- English Word As Definition As if; as though.
- English Word As Definition For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
- English Word As Definition Than.
- English Word As Definition Expressing a wish.
- English Word As Definition An ace.
- English Word As Definition A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
- English Word As Definition A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.
- English Word Asa Definition An ancient name of a gum.
- English Word Asafetida Definition Alt. of Asafoetida
- English Word Asafoetida Definition The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
- English Word Asaphus Definition A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.
- English Word Asarabacca Definition An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.