Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 28

Advice (n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

Advisability (n.) The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

Advisable (a.) Ready to receive advice.

Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

Advisably (adv.) With advice; wisely.

Advised (imp. & p. p.) of Advise

Advising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advise

Advise (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

Advise (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.

Advise (v. t.) To consider; to deliberate.

Advise (v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

Advisedly (adv.) Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.

Advisedly (adv.) With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.

Advisedness (n.) Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

Advisement (n.) Counsel; advice; information.

Advisement (n.) Consideration; deliberation; consultation.

Adviser (n.) One who advises.

Advisership (n.) The office of an adviser.

Adviso (n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.

Advisory (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.

Advocacy (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Advocate (n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.

Advocated (imp. & p. p.) of Advocate

Advocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advocate

Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

Advocate (v. i.) To act as advocate.

Advocateship (n.) Office or duty of an advocate.

Advocation (n.) The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.

Advocation (n.) Advowson.

Advocation (n.) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

Advocatory (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate.

Advoke (v. t.) To summon; to call.

Advolution (n.) A rolling toward something.

Advoutrer (n.) An adulterer.

Advoutress (n.) An adulteress.

Advoutry (n.) Alt. of Advowtry

Advowtry (n.) Adultery.

Advowee (n.) One who has an advowson.

Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Advoyer (n.) See Avoyer.

Adward (n.) Award.

Adynamia (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

Adynamic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Adynamic (a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.

Adynamy (n.) Adynamia.

Adyta (pl. ) of Adytum

Adytum (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

Adz (n.) Alt. of Adze

Adze (n.) A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

Adz (v. t.) To cut with an adz.

Ae () Alt. of Ae

Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Aecidia (pl. ) of Aecidium

Aecidium (n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

Aedile (n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

Aedileship (n.) The office of an aedile.

Aegean (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Aegicrania (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

Aegilops (n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

Aegilops (n.) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.

Aegilops (n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.

Aegis (n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Aegophony (n.) Same as Egophony.

Aegrotat (n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill.

Aeneid (n.) The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.

Aeneous (a.) Colored like bronze.

Aeolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.

Aeolian (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.

Aeolic (a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode.

Aeolipile (n.) Alt. of Aeolipyle

Aeolipyle (n.) An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve.

Aeolotropic (a.) Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

Aeolotropy (n.) Difference of quality or property in different directions.

Aeolus (n.) The god of the winds.

Aeon (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.

Aeonian (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

Aepyornis (n.) A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.

Aerated (imp. & p. p.) of Aerate

Aerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aerate

Aerate (v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

Aerate (v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.

Aerate (v. t.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.

Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.

Aeration (n.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

Aeration (n.) The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

Aerator (n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Aerial (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.

Aerial (a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Aerial (a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.

Aerial (a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.

Aerial (a.) Light as air; ethereal.

Aeriality (n.) The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality.

Aerially (adv.) Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner.

Aerie (n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Aeriferous (a.) Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube.

Aerification (n.) The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

Aerification (n.) The act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aeriform state; the state of being aeriform.

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