v. t. [ LL. abacinatus, p. p. of abacinare; ab off + bacinus a basin. ] To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of abacinating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ab + E. actinal. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. “The aboral or abactinal area.” L. Agassiz. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; E. pl. Abdominals, L. pl. Abdominales. A fish of the group Abdominales. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. abdominal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., masc. pl. ] (Zool.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. ] (Zool.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abominable. [ A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is abhominable, which he [ Don Armado ] would call abominable. Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ab away from + homo, hominis, man. ] Inhuman. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. abominable. L. abominalis. See Abominate. ] 1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time [ 15th c. ], “abomynable syght of monkes” was elegant English for “a large company of friars.” G. P. Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating. ] [ L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen. ] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. abominacioun, -cion, F. abominatio. See Abominate. ] 1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cause of pollution or wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Aborigines. ] 1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. “Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An animal or a plant native to the region. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Primarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a mite. ] (Zool.) The order of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ad + E. combination. ] A combining together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ac- (for ad to) + criminari. ] To accuse of a crime. [ Obs. ] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; agate. ] (Zool.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acinus a grape, grapestone. ] (Bot.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., from Gr. &unr_;. ] (Anc. Hist.) A short sword or saber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acinaces a short sword + -form: cf. F. acinaciforme. ] (Bot.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. L. Agassiz. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray. ] (Zool.) An order of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acuminatus, p. p. of acuminare to sharpen, fr. acumen. See Acumen. ] Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render sharp or keen. [ R. ] “To acuminate even despair.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To end in, or come to, a sharp point. “Acuminating in a cone of prelacy.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contiguous. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ad- + margin. ] To write in the margin. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad + nomen noun. ] (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. affinis. ] Related by marriage; from the same source. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare. ] Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agglutinated p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating. ] [ L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue. ] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agglutination. ] 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. agglutinatif. ] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Syn. -- polysynthetic, holophrastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agminalis; agmen, agminis, a train. ] Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. agmen, agminis, a train, crowd. ] (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agnominatio. See Agnomen. ] 1. A surname. [ R. ] Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of fungi that produce white blisterlike sori on certain flowering plants.
Syn. -- family Albuginaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ala wing + E. nasal. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alumen, aluminis. See Alum. ] (Chem.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is the oxide of the metal aluminium, the base of aluminous salts, a constituent of a large part of the earthy siliceous minerals, as the feldspars, micas, scapolites, etc., and the characterizing ingredient of common clay, in which it exists as an impure silicate with water, resulting from the decomposition of other aluminous minerals. In its natural state, it is the mineral corundum. [ 1913 Webster ]