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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Few \Few\ (f[umac]), a. [Compar. {Fewer}; superl. {Fewest}.] [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. fe[a0], pl. fe[a0]we; akin to OS. f[be]h, OHG. f[omac] fao, Icel. f[be]r, Sw. f[86], pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. pay^ros. Cf. {Paucity}.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. [bd]Are not my days few?[b8] --Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. --Proverb. Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them. {A few}, a small number. {In few}, in a few words; briefly. --Shak. {No few}, not few; more than a few; many. --Cowper. {The few}, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority. | |
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Ab- \Ab-\ ([acr]b). [Latin prep., etymologically the same as E. of, off. See {Of}.] A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away, separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See {A-}(6). | |
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Abay \A*bay"\ ([adot]*b[amac]"), n. [OF. abay barking.] Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See {Bay}. [Obs.] | |
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Abb \Abb\ ([acr]b), n. [AS. [be]web, [be]b; pref. a- + web. See {Web}.] Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, {abb wool} is wool for the abb. | |
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Abba \Ab"ba\ ([acr]b"b[adot]), n. [Syriac abb[be] father. See {Abbot}.] Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Abbey \Ab"bey\ ([acr]b"b[ycr]), n.; pl. {Abbeys} (-b[icr]z). [OF. aba[8b]e, abba[8b]e, F. abbaye, L. abbatia, fr. abbas abbot. See {Abbot}.] 1. A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings. Note: The men are called monks, and governed by an abbot; the women are called nuns, and governed by an abbess. 2. The church of a monastery. Note: In London, the Abbey means Westminster Abbey, and in Scotland, the precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood. The name is also retained for a private residence on the site of an abbey; as, Newstead Abbey, the residence of Lord Byron. Syn: Monastery; convent; nunnery; priory; cloister. See {Cloister}. | |
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Aby \A*by"\, Abye \A*bye"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Abought}.] [AS. [be]bycgan to pay for; pref. [be]- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + bycgan to buy. See {Buy}, and cf. {Abide}.] 1. To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. --Shak. 2. To endure; to abide. [Obs.] But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. --Spenser. | |
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Aby \A*by"\, Abye \A*bye"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Abought}.] [AS. [be]bycgan to pay for; pref. [be]- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + bycgan to buy. See {Buy}, and cf. {Abide}.] 1. To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. --Shak. 2. To endure; to abide. [Obs.] But nought that wanteth rest can long aby. --Spenser. | |
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Affy \Af*fy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Affied}; p. pr. {Affying}.] [OF. afier, LL. affidare. Cf. {Affiance}.] 1. To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust. [Obs.] 2. To betroth or espouse; to affiance. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To bind in faith. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu. | |
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Affy \Af*fy"\, v. i. To trust or confide. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Aheap \A*heap"\, adv. [Pref. a- + heap.] In a heap; huddled together. --Hood. | |
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Ape \Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aping}.] To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. [bd]How he apes his sire.[b8] --Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. --Burke. | |
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Ape \Ape\ ([amac]p), n. [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G. affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family {Simiad[91]}, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus {Hylobates}, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called {anthropoid apes} or {man apes}. Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms. 2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. --Byron. 3. A dupe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Apo \Ap"o\ [Gr. [?]. See {Ab-}.] A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous. | |
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Appay \Ap*pay"\, v. t. [OF. appayer, apaier, LL. appacare, appagare, fr. L. ad + pacare to pacify, pax, pacis, peace. See {Pay}, {Appease}.] To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Aube \Aube\, n. [See {Ale}.] An alb. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Auf \Auf\ ([add]f), n. [OE. auph, aulf, fr. Icel. [be]lfr elf. See {Elf}.] [Also spelt {oaf}, {ouphe}.] A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] --Drayton. | |
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Kava \Ka"va\, n. [Polynesian.] (Bot.) A species of {Macropiper} ({M. methysticum}), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also {kawa}, {kava}, and {ava}.] | |
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Woolly \Wool"ly\, a. 1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece. 2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. [bd]My fleece of woolly hair.[b8] --Shak. 3. Clothed with wool. [bd]Woolly breeders.[b8] --Shak. 4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. {Woolly bear} (Zo[94]l.), the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under {Salt}), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under {Isabella Moth}), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}). {Woolly butt} (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Eucalyptus longifolia}), so named because of its fibrous bark. {Woolly louse} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse ({Schizoneura, [or] Erisoma, lanigera}) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under {Blight}. {Woolly macaco} (Zo[94]l.), the mongoose lemur. {Woolly maki} (Zo[94]l.), a long-tailed lemur ({Indris laniger}) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also {avahi}, and {woolly lemur}. {Woolly monkey} (Zo[94]l.), any South American monkey of the genus {Lagothrix}, as the caparro. {Woolly rhinoceros} (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros tichorhinus}) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved. | |
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Avie \A*vie"\, adv. [Pref. a- + vie.] Emulously. [Obs.] | |
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Avow \A*vow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avowed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Avowing}.] [F. avouver, fr. L. advocare to call to (whence the meanings, to call upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to call. See {Advocate}, {Avouch}.] 1. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. --Milton. 2. (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See {Avowry}. --Blackstone. Syn: To acknowledge; own; confess. See {Confess}. | |
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Avow \A*vow"\, n. [Cf. F. aveu.] Avowal. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Avow \A*vow"\, v. t. & i. [OF. avouer, fr. LL. votare to vow, fr. L. votun. See {Vote}, n.] To bind, or to devote, by a vow. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Avow \A*vow"\, n. A vow or determination. [Archaic] | |
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Avowee \A*vow`ee"\, n. [F. avou[82]. Cf. {Advowee}, {Advocate}, n.] The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See {Advowson}. | |
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Awhape \A*whape"\, v. t. [Cf. whap blow.] To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Whaap \Whaap\, n. [So called from one of its notes.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European curlew; -- called also {awp}, {whaup}, {great whaup}, and {stock whaup}. (b) The whimbrel; -- called also {May whaup}, {little whaup}, and {tang whaup}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Abie, NE (village, FIPS 205) Location: 41.33371 N, 96.94934 W Population (1990): 106 (52 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68001 | |
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Afao, AS (village, FIPS 2500) Location: 14.33880 S, 170.80072 W Population (1990): 145 (25 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 3.1 sq km (water) | |
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Ava, IL (city, FIPS 3103) Location: 37.88841 N, 89.49626 W Population (1990): 674 (330 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62907 Ava, MO (city, FIPS 2674) Location: 36.95310 N, 92.66511 W Population (1990): 2938 (1383 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65608 Ava, NY Zip code(s): 13303 | |
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Avaio, AS (village, FIPS 20900) Location: 14.30932 S, 170.61594 W Population (1990): 50 (10 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 6.6 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an app is often a self-contained environment for performing some well-defined task such as `word processing'; hackers tend to prefer more general-purpose tools.) See {killer app}; oppose {tool}, {operating system}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
AUP /A-U-P/ Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy". The policy of a given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be (un)acceptable uses of its Internet resources. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
AAP {Association of American Publishers} | |
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A&B transmission facilities where one bit from every sixth frame of each of 24 T1 {subchannels} is used for carrying {supervisory signaling}. [What does it stand for? Is this the same as "{bit robbing}"?] (1997-05-05) | |
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ABI {Application Binary Interface} | |
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ABP 1. 2. {Microsoft} {Address Book Provider}. (2001-02-11) | |
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AEP {Application Environment Profile} | |
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af (1999-01-27) | |
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AFP 1. 2. (1998-06-28) | |
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AFUU {Association Française des Utilisateurs d'Unix} | |
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AIFF {Audio IFF} | |
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AOP {aspect-oriented programming} | |
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APA {Application Portability Architecture} | |
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apE Centre. (1995-11-29) | |
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apE Centre. (1995-11-29) | |
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API {Application Program Interface} | |
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app {application program} | |
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AUP {acceptable use policy} | |
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av {avatar} | |
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AVI {Audio Video Interleave} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Abba This Syriac or Chaldee word is found three times in the New Testament (Mark 14:36; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6), and in each case is followed by its Greek equivalent, which is translated "father." It is a term expressing warm affection and filial confidence. It has no perfect equivalent in our language. It has passed into European languages as an ecclesiastical term, "abbot." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Abia my father is the Lord, the Greek form of Abijah, or Abijam (Matt. 1:7), instead of Abiah (1 Chr. 7:8). In Luke 1:5, the name refers to the head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests (1 Chr. 24:10). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Abihu father of Him; i.e., "worshipper of God", the second of the sons of Aaron (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2; 26:60; 1 Chr. 6:3). Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest's office (Ex. 28:1). With his father and elder brother he accompanied the seventy elders part of the way up the mount with Moses (Ex. 24:1,9). On one occasion he and Nadab his brother offered incense in their censers filled with "strange" (i.e., common) fire, i.e., not with fire taken from the great brazen altar (Lev. 6:9, etc.), and for this offence they were struck dead, and were taken out and buried without the camp (Lev. 10:1-11; comp. Num. 3:4; 26:61; 1 Chr. 24:2). It is probable that when they committed this offence they were intoxicated, for immediately after is given the law prohibiting the use of wine or strong drink to the priests. | |
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Ahab father's brother. (1.) The son of Omri, whom he succeeded as the seventh king of Israel. His history is recorded in 1 Kings 16-22. His wife was Jezebel (q.v.), who exercised a very evil influence over him. To the calf-worship introduced by Jeroboam he added the worship of Baal. He was severely admonished by Elijah (q.v.) for his wickedness. His anger was on this account kindled against the prophet, and he sought to kill him. He undertook three campaigns against Ben-hadad II., king of Damascus. In the first two, which were defensive, he gained a complete victory over Ben-hadad, who fell into his hands, and was afterwards released on the condition of his restoring all the cities of Israel he then held, and granting certain other concessions to Ahab. After three years of peace, for some cause Ahab renewed war (1 Kings 22:3) with Ben-hadad by assaulting the city of Ramoth-gilead, although the prophet Micaiah warned him that he would not succeed, and that the 400 false prophets who encouraged him were only leading him to his ruin. Micaiah was imprisoned for thus venturing to dissuade Ahab from his purpose. Ahab went into the battle disguised, that he might if possible escape the notice of his enemies; but an arrow from a bow "drawn at a venture" pierced him, and though stayed up in his chariot for a time he died towards evening, and Elijah's prophecy (1 Kings 21:19) was fulfilled. He reigned twenty-three years. Because of his idolatry, lust, and covetousness, Ahab is referred to as pre-eminently the type of a wicked king (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chr. 22:3; Micah 6:16). (2.) A false prophet referred to by Jeremiah (Jer. 29:21), of whom nothing further is known. | |
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Ahava water, the river (Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the Jewish exiles assembled under Ezra when about to return to Jerusalem from Babylon. In all probability this was one of the streams of Mesopotamia which flowed into the Euphrates somewhere in the north-west of Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be the name of a place (Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the Euphrates, east of Damascus. | |
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Ape an animal of the monkey tribe (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21). It was brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram, and was called by the Hebrews _koph_, and by the Greeks _kepos_, both words being just the Indian Tamil name of the monkey, kapi, i.e., swift, nimble, active. No species of ape has ever been found in Palestine or the adjacent regions. | |
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Apphia increasing, a female Christian at Colosse (Philemon 1:2), supposed by some to have been the wife of Philemon. | |
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Ava a place in Assyria from which colonies were brought to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24). It is probably the same with Ivah (18:34; 19:13; Isa. 37:13). It has been identified with Hit on the Euphrates. | |
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Abba, father | |
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Abi, my father | |
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Abiah, the Lord is my father | |
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Abihu, he is my father | |
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Ahab, uncle, or father's brother | |
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Ahava, essence; being; generation | |
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Aphiah, speaking, blowing | |
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Apphia, productive; fruitful | |
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Ava, or Ivah, iniquity |