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  • English Word Atonic Definition Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
  • English Word Atonic Definition A word that has no accent.
  • English Word Atonic Definition An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.
  • English Word Atonic Definition A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
  • English Word Atoning Definition of Atone
  • English Word Atony Definition Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.
  • English Word Atop Definition On or at the top.
  • English Word Atrabilarian Definition Alt. of Atrabilarious
  • English Word Atrabilarian Definition A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.
  • English Word Atrabilarious Definition Affected with melancholy; atrabilious.
  • English Word Atrabiliar Definition Melancholy; atrabilious.
  • English Word Atrabiliary Definition Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.
  • English Word Atrabiliary Definition Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania.
  • English Word Atrabilious Definition Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary.
  • English Word Atramentaceous Definition Black, like ink; inky; atramental.
  • English Word Atramental Definition Alt. of Atramentous
  • English Word Atramentarious Definition Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.
  • English Word Atramentous Definition Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
  • English Word Atrede Definition To surpass in council.
  • English Word Atrenne Definition To outrun.
  • English Word Atresia Definition Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.
  • English Word Atria Definition of Atrium
  • English Word Atrial Definition Of or pertaining to an atrium.
  • English Word Atrip Definition Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.
  • English Word Atrip Definition Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.
  • English Word Atrip Definition Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.
  • English Word Atrium Definition A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
  • English Word Atrium Definition An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
  • English Word Atrium Definition The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
  • English Word Atrium Definition A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.