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- 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.