Abusable (a.) That may be abused.
Abusage (n.) Abuse.
Abused (imp. & p. p.) of Abuse
Abusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abuse
Abuse (v. t.) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.
Abuse (v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.
Abuse (v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
Abuse (v. t.) To dishonor.
Abuse (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
Abuse (v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.
Abuse (v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.
Abuse (v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.
Abuse (v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.
Abuse (v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.
Abuse (v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.
Abuseful (a.) Full of abuse; abusive.
Abuser (n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
Abusion (v. t.) Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
Abusive (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Abusive (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
Abusive (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
Abusive (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
Abusive (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
Abusively (adv.) In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
Abusiveness (n.) The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
Abutted (imp. & p. p.) of Abut
Abutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abut
Abut (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Abutilon (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
Abutment (n.) State of abutting.
Abutment (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
Abutment (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
Abuttal (n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.
Abutter (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
Abuzz (a.) In a buzz; buzzing.
Abought (imp. & p. p.) of Abye
Aby (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye
Abye (v. t. & i.) To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
Abye (v. t. & i.) To endure; to abide.
Abysm (n.) An abyss; a gulf.
Abysmal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
Abysmally (adv.) To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
Abyss (n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
Abyss (n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
Abyss (n.) The center of an escutcheon.
Abyssal (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
Abyssinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
Abyssinian (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
Abyssinian (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
Acacia (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
Acacias (pl. ) of Acacia
Acaciae (pl. ) of Acacia
Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
Acacia (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
Acacin (n.) Alt. of Acacine
Acacine (n.) Gum arabic.
Academe (n.) An academy.
Academial (a.) Academic.
Academian (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.
Academic (a.) Alt. of Academical
Academical (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
Academic (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
Academically (adv.) In an academical manner.
Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
Academician (n.) A collegian.
Academicism (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
Academicism (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Academism (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.
Academist (n.) An Academic philosopher.
Academist (n.) An academician.
Academies (pl. ) of Academy
Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.
Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Acadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
Acadian (n.) A native of Acadie.
Acajou (n.) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.
Acajou (n.) The mahogany tree; also, its timber.
Acalephs (pl. ) of Acalephan
Acalephans (pl. ) of Acalephan
Acaleph (n.) Alt. of Acalephan
Acalephan (n.) One of the Acalephae.
Acalephae (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.
Acalephoid (a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.
Acalycine (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous
Acalysinous (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.
Acanth (n.) Same as Acanthus.
Acantha (n.) A prickle.
Acantha (n.) A spine or prickly fin.
Acantha (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
Acanthaceous (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant.
Acanthaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
Acanthine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.