Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 112

Automatous (a.) Automatic.

Automorphic (a.) Patterned after one's self.

Automorphism (n.) Automorphic characterization.

Autonomasy (n.) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

Autonomic (a.) Having the power of self-government; autonomous.

Autoomist (n.) One who advocates autonomy.

Autonomous (a.) Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

Autonomous (a.) Having independent existence or laws.

Autonomy (n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

Autonomy (n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.

Autophagi (n. pl.) Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

Autophoby (n.) Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical.

Autophony (n.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.

Autoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

Autoplasty (n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

Autopsic (a.) Alt. of Autopsical

Autopsical (a.) Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical.

Autopsorin (n.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

Autopsy (a.) Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.

Autopsy (a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

Autoptic (a.) Alt. of Autoptical

Autoptical (a.) Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

Autoptically (adv.) By means of ocular view, or one's own observation.

Autoschediastic (a.) Alt. of Autoschediastical

Autoschediastical (a.) Extemporary; offhand.

Autostylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

Autotheism (n.) The doctrine of God's self-existence.

Autotheism (n.) Deification of one's self; self-worship.

Autotheist (n.) One given to self-worship.

Autotype (n.) A facsimile.

Autotype (n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

Autotypography (n.) A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

Autotypy (n.) The art or process of making autotypes.

Autumn (n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Autumn (n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

Autumn (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

Autumnal (a.) Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

Autumnal (a.) Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

Auxanometer (n.) An instrument to measure the growth of plants.

Auxesis (n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

Auxetic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

Auxiliar (a.) Auxiliary.

Auxiliar (n.) An auxiliary.

Auxiliarly (adv.) By way of help.

Auxiliary (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

Auxiliaries (pl. ) of Auxiliary

Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Auxiliary (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

Auxiliary (sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.

Auxiliary (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

Auxiliatory (a.) Auxiliary; helping.

Ava (n.) Same as Kava.

Avadavat (n.) Same as Amadavat.

Availed (imp. & p. p.) of Avail

Availing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avail

Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

Avail (v. t.) To promote; to assist.

Avail (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

Avail (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

Avail (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

Avail (v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

Availabilities (pl. ) of Availability

Availability (n.) The quality of being available; availableness.

Availability (n.) That which is available.

Available (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

Available (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

Availableness (n.) Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.

Availableness (n.) Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.

Avaiably (adv.) In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

Availment (n.) Profit; advantage.

Avalanche (n.) A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

Avalanche (n.) A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

Avalanche (n.) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.

Avale (v. t. & i.) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.

Avale (v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.

Avale (v. t. & i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount.

Avant (n.) The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

Avant-courier (n.) A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

Avant-guard (n.) The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

Avarice (n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

Avarice (n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Avaricious (a.) Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Avarous (a.) Avaricious.

Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.

Avatar (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

Avatar (n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

Avaunce (v. t. & i.) To advance; to profit.

Avaunt (interj.) Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

Avaunt (v. t. & i.) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.

Avaunt (v. t. & i.) To depart; to move away.

Avaunt (v. t. & i.) To vaunt; to boast.

Avaunt (n.) A vaunt; to boast.

Avauntour (n.) A boaster.

Ave (n.) An ave Maria.

Ave (n.) A reverential salutation.

Avel (v. t.) To pull away.

Avellane (a.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

Ave Maria () Alt. of Ave Mary

Ave Mary () A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church.

Ave Mary () A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria.

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