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Ambaginous \Am*bag"i*nous\, a. Ambagious. [R.] | |
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Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.] | |
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Ambagitory \Am*bag"i*to*ry\, a. Ambagious. [R.] | |
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Ambassade \Am"bas*sade\, Embassade \Em"bas*sade\, n. [F. ambassade. See {Embassy}.] 1. The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] --Carew. 2. An embassy. [Obs.] --Strype. | |
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Ambassador \Am*bas"sa*dor\, Embassador \Em*bas"sa*dor\, n. [See {Embassador}.] 1. A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. Note: Ambassadors are either ordinary [or resident] or extraordinary, that is, sent upon some special or unusual occasion or errand. --Abbott. 2. An official messenger and representative. | |
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Ambassadorial \Am*bas`sa*do"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to an ambassador. --H. Walpole. | |
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Ambassadorship \Am*bas`sa*dor*ship\, n. The state, office, or functions of an ambassador. | |
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Ambassadress \Am*bas"sa*dress\, n. A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. --Prescott. | |
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Ambassage \Am"bas*sage\, n. Same as {Embassage}. [Obs. or R.] --Luke xiv. 32. | |
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Ambassy \Am"bas*sy\, n. See {Embassy}, the usual spelling. --Helps. | |
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Ambes-as \Ambes"-as\, n. Ambs-ace. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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As \As\, n. [See {Ace}.] An ace. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Ambes-as}, double aces. | |
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Ambigenous \Am*big"e*nous\, a. [L. ambo both + genus kind.] Of two kinds. (Bot.) Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid. | |
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Ambigu \Am"bi*gu\, n. [F., fr. ambigu doubtful, L. ambiquus. See {Ambiguous}.] An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time. | |
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Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Ambiguities}. [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit[82].] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. --I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. --South. | |
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Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Ambiguities}. [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit[82].] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. --I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. --South. | |
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Ambiguous \Am*big"u*ous\, a. [L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to wander about, waver; amb- + agere to drive.] Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers? What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding? --Milton. Syn: Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct; indeterminate; indefinite. See {Equivocal}. | |
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Ambiguously \Am*big"u*ous*ly\, adv. In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning. | |
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Ambiguousness \Am*big"u*ous*ness\, n. Ambiguity. | |
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d8Ambo \[d8]Am"bo\, n.; pl. {Ambos}. [LL. ambo, Gr. [?], any rising, a raised stage, pulpit: cf. F. ambon.] A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. --Gwilt. | |
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Ambs-ace \Ambs"-ace\, n. [OF. ambesas; ambes both (fr. L. ambo) + as ace. See {Ace}.] Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value. | |
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Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, n. [F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare. See {Ambush}, v. t.] 1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush. 2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. [R.] --Dryden. 3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush. | |
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Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambuscaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambuscading}.] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. 2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. | |
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Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. i. To lie in ambush. | |
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Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambuscaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambuscading}.] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. 2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. | |
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Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambuscaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambuscading}.] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. 2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. | |
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Ambuscado \Am`bus*ca"do\, n. Ambuscade. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Ambuscadoed \Am`bus*ca"doed\, p. p. Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.] | |
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Ambush \Am"bush\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambushing}.] [OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. emb[96]cher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See {Ambuscade}, {Bu[?]h}.] 1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple [?]ai[?], We have the king of Mexico betrayed. --Dryden. 2. To attack by ambush; to waylay. | |
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Ambush \Am"bush\, v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. --Trumbull. | |
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Ambush \Am"bush\, n. [F. emb[96]che, fr. the verb. See {Ambush}, v. t.] 1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. --Milton. 2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. --Dryden. 3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. --Josh. viii. 19. {To lay an ambush}, to post a force in ambush. | |
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Ambush \Am"bush\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambushing}.] [OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. emb[96]cher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See {Ambuscade}, {Bu[?]h}.] 1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple [?]ai[?], We have the king of Mexico betrayed. --Dryden. 2. To attack by ambush; to waylay. | |
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Ambusher \Am"bush*er\, n. One lying in ambush. | |
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Ambush \Am"bush\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ambushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ambushing}.] [OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. emb[96]cher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See {Ambuscade}, {Bu[?]h}.] 1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple [?]ai[?], We have the king of Mexico betrayed. --Dryden. 2. To attack by ambush; to waylay. | |
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Ambushment \Am"bush*ment\, n. [OF. embuschement. See {Ambush}, v. t.] An ambush. [Obs.] --2 Chron. xiii. 13. | |
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Ambustion \Am*bus"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. ambustio.] (Med.) A burn or scald. --Blount. | |
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Amphiaster \Am"phi*as`ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + 'asth`r a star.] (Biol.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle. | |
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Earthpea \Earth"pea`\, n. (Bot.) A species of pea ({Amphicarp[91]a monoica}). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods. | |
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Amphicarpic \Am`phi*car"pic\, Amphicarpous \Am`phi*car"pous\, a. [Gr. 'amfi` + karpo`s fruit.] (Bot.) Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening. | |
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Amphicarpic \Am`phi*car"pic\, Amphicarpous \Am`phi*car"pous\, a. [Gr. 'amfi` + karpo`s fruit.] (Bot.) Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening. | |
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Amphicd2lian \Am`phi*c[d2]"li*an\, Amphicd2lous \Am`phi*c[d2]"lous\, a. [Gr. [?] hollowed all round; 'amfi` + [?] hollow.] (Zo[94]l.) Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebr[91]. | |
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Amphicd2lian \Am`phi*c[d2]"li*an\, Amphicd2lous \Am`phi*c[d2]"lous\, a. [Gr. [?] hollowed all round; 'amfi` + [?] hollow.] (Zo[94]l.) Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebr[91]. | |
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Twig \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. --Sir T. Raleigh. {Twig borer} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer ({Amphicerus bicaudatus}). {Twig girdler}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Girdler}, 3. {Twig rush} (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus {Cladium} having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See {Saw grass}, under {Saw}. | |
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Amphichroic \Am`phi*chro"ic\, a. [Gr. 'amfi` + [?] color.] (Chem.) Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red. | |
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Amphicome \Am"phi*come\, n. [Gr. [?] with hair all round; 'amfi` + [?] hair.] A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] --Encyc. Brit. | |
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Amphictyonic \Am*phic`ty*on"ic\, a. [Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. --W. Smith. | |
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Amphictyony \Am*phic"ty*o*ny\, n.; pl. {Amphictyonies}. [Gr. [?].] (Grecian Hist.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece. | |
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Amphictyons \Am*phic"ty*ons\, n. pl. [L. Amphictyones, Gr. [?]. Prob. the word was orig. [?] dwellers around, neighbors.] (Grecian Hist.) Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters. | |
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Amphictyony \Am*phic"ty*o*ny\, n.; pl. {Amphictyonies}. [Gr. [?].] (Grecian Hist.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece. | |
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Amphigamous \Am*phig"a*mous\, a. [Gr. [?] + [?] marriage.] (Bot.) Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants. | |
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Amphigean \Am`phi*ge"an\, a. [Gr. [?] + [?], [?], the earth.] Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive. | |
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Amphigen \Am"phi*gen\, n. [Gr. [?] + -gen: cf. F. amphig[8a]ne.] (Chem.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. [R.] | |
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Amphigene \Am"phi*gene\, n. (Min.) Leucite. | |
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Amphigenesis \Am`phi*gen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. [?] + [?] generation.] (Biol.) Sexual generation; amphigony. | |
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Amphigenous \Am*phig"e*nous\, a. (Bot.) Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens. | |
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Amphigonic \Am`phi*gon"ic\, a. Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.] | |
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Amphigonous \Am*phig"o*nous\, a. [Gr. [?] + [?] a begetting.] Relating to both parents. [R.] | |
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Amphigony \Am*phig"o*ny\, n. Sexual propagation. [R.] | |
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Amphigoric \Am`phi*gor"ic\, a. [See {Amphigory}.] Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory. | |
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Amphigory \Am"phi*go*ry\, n. [F. amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perh. fr. Gr. [?] + [?] a circle.] A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also {amphigouri}.] | |
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Amphigory \Am"phi*go*ry\, n. [F. amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perh. fr. Gr. [?] + [?] a circle.] A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also {amphigouri}.] | |
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Lancelet \Lance"let\, n. [Lance + -let.] (Zo[94]l.) A small fishlike animal ({Amphioxus lanceolatus}), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See {Amphioxus}, {Leptocardia}. | |
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d8Amphioxus \[d8]Am`phi*ox"us\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] + [?] sharp.] (Zo[94]l.) A fishlike creature ({Amphioxus lanceolatus}), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the {lancelet}. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr[91], nor red blood. It forms the type of the group {Acrania}, {Leptocardia}, etc. | |
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d8Amphiscii \[d8]Am*phis"ci*i\, Amphiscians \Am*phis"cians\, n. pl. [Gr. [?] throwing a shadow both ways; [?] + [?] shadow.] The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. | |
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Sage \Sage\, n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See {Safe}.] (Bot.) (a) A suffruticose labiate plant ({Salvia officinalis}) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. (b) The sagebrush. {Meadow sage} (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia ({S. pratensis}) growing in meadows in Europe. {Sage cheese}, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which are added to the milk. {Sage cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse. {Sage green}, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage. {Sage grouse} (Zo[94]l.), a very large American grouse ({Centrocercus urophasianus}), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also {cock of the plains}. The male is called {sage cock}, and the female {sage hen}. {Sage hare}, or {Sage rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), a species of hare ({Lepus Nuttalli, [or] artemisia}) which inhabits the arid regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit. {Sage hen} (Zo[94]l.), the female of the sage grouse. {Sage sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a small sparrow ({Amphispiza Belli}, var. {Nevadensis}) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush. {Sage thrasher} (Zo[94]l.), a singing bird ({Oroscoptes montanus}) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America. {Sage willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix tristis}) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves. | |
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Amphistomous \Am*phis"to*mous\, a. [Gr. [?] + [?] mouth.] (Zo[94]l.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere. | |
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Amphistylic \Am`phi*sty"lic\, a. [Gr. [?] + [?] pillar, support.] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull. | |
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Amvis \Am"vis\, n. [Ammonium (nitrate) + L. vis strength, force.] An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal. | |
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\ (#; 277), a. [L. abstractus, p. p. of abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw. See {Trace}.] 1. Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. --Norris. 2. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. 3. (Logic) (a) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to {concrete}; as, honesty is an abstract word. --J. S. Mill. (b) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, [bd]reptile[b8] is an abstract or general name. --Locke. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression [bd]abstract name[b8] to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. --J. S. Mill. 4. Abstracted; absent in mind. [bd]Abstract, as in a trance.[b8] --Milton. {An abstract idea} (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. {Abstract terms}, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. {Abstract numbers} (Math.), numbers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete. {Abstract} [or] {Pure mathematics}. See {Mathematics}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anap91st \An`a*p[91]st\, Anap91stic \An`a*p[91]s"tic\ Same as {Anapest}, {Anapestic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anap91st \An`a*p[91]st\, Anap91stic \An`a*p[91]s"tic\ Same as {Anapest}, {Anapestic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. [?] an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. [?]; [?] back + [?] to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ([cre] [cre] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d[ecr]-[icr]-t[be]s, and in English in-ter-vene[b6], are examples of anapests. 2. A verse composed of such feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anapestic \An`a*pes"tic\, a. [L. anapaesticus, Gr. [?].] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n. Anapestic measure or verse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Anapestical \An`a*pes"tic*al\, a. Anapestic. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Anopsia \[d8]A*nop"si*a\ ([adot]*n[ocr]p"s[icr]*[adot]), Anopsy \An"op`sy\ ([acr]n"[ocr]p`s[ycr]), a. [Gr. 'an priv. + 'o`psis sight.] (Med.) Want or defect of sight; blindness. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Anvik, AK (city, FIPS 3880) Location: 62.65554 N, 160.20830 W Population (1990): 82 (47 housing units) Area: 28.9 sq km (land), 6.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99558 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
AMBUSH materials processing and transportation network. ["AMBUSH - An Advanced Model Builder for Linear Programming", T.R. White et al, National Petroleum Refiners Assoc Comp Conf (Nov 1971)]. (1995-06-19) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ambassador In the Old Testament the Hebrew word _tsir_, meaning "one who goes on an errand," is rendered thus (Josh. 9:4; Prov. 13:17; Isa. 18:2; Jer. 49:14; Obad. 1:1). This is also the rendering of _melits_, meaning "an interpreter," in 2 Chr. 32:31; and of _malak_, a "messenger," in 2 Chr. 35:21; Isa. 30:4; 33:7; Ezek. 17:15. This is the name used by the apostle as designating those who are appointed by God to declare his will (2 Cor. 5:20; Eph. 6:20). The Hebrews on various occasions and for various purposes had recourse to the services of ambassadors, e.g., to contract alliances (Josh. 9:4), to solicit favours (Num. 20:14), to remonstrate when wrong was done (Judg. 11:12), to condole with a young king on the death of his father (2 Sam. 10:2), and to congratulate a king on his accession to the throne (1 Kings 5:1). To do injury to an ambassador was to insult the king who sent him (2 Sam. 10:5). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ambush Joshua at the capture of Ai lay in ambush, and so deceived the inhabitants that he gained an easy victory (Josh. 8:4-26). Shechem was taken in this manner (Judg. 9:30-45. Comp. Jer. 51:12). |