n. [ L. abies, abietis, a fir tree. ] A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + bi`os life + ge`nesis, origin, birth. ] (Biol.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. The quality of being abortive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being abstersive. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground,
Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fitness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.
Syn. -- acetphenetidin, phenacetin [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.
Syn. -- acetophenetidin, phenacetin [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; to gape. ] (Bot.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [ Written also akene and achænium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any plant of the genus Achimenes having gloxinialike flowers.
Syn. -- hot water plant [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern fine distinctions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. “General adaptability for every purpose.” Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The state of being fat; fatness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline an adrenergic nerve fiber [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ L. advenire; ad + venire to come: cf. F. avenir, advenir. See Come. ] To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Aeneis, Aeneidis, or -dos: cf. F. Énéide. ] The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aëneus. ] (Zool.) Colored like bronze. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality that gives an affront or offense. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; unmarried ('a priv. + &unr_; marriage) + &unr_; reproduction. ] (Biol.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley. [1913 Webster]

a. [ See Agensis. ] (Physiol.) Characterized by sterility; infecund. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; birth. ] (Physiol.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aggenerare to beget in addition. See Generate. ] The act of producing in addition. [ Obs. ] T. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agility; nimbleness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Achene. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. [ 1913 Webster ]

It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [ Chiefly in Phrenol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]