v. t. [ Pref. ab- + irritate. ] (Med.) To diminish the sensibility to stimulation of. [ 1913 Webster+ AS ]

n. (Med.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; lack of strength; asthenia. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Characterized by abirritation or debility. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ablactatus, p. p. of ablactare; ab + lactare to suckle, fr. lac milk. ] To wean. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Hort.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. [ 1913 Webster ]

My words, in common acceptation,
Could never give this provocation. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acclimation. See Acclimate. ] Acclimatization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour. ] (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Combined with acetic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio. ] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. “Adaptation of the means to the end.” Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The result of adapting; an adapted form. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.
Syn. -- adaptive, adaptative [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Adaptive. Stubbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adhortatio, fr. adhortari to advise; ad + hortari to exhort. ] Advice; exhortation. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [ Obs. ] Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Hist.) A corruption of Agitator. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., let him be admitted. ] The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., he is sick. ] (Camb. Univ.) A medical certificate that a student is ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aérostat, fr. Gr. &unr_; air + &unr_; placed. See Statics. ] 1. (Aëronautics) A balloon, especially a passive balloon; a balloon without motive power. Contrasted with aerodyne. [ 1913 Webster +Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A balloonist; an aëronaut. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. aérostatique. See Statical, Statics. ] 1. Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aëronautic; as, an aërostatic voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aérostation the art of using aërostats. ] 1. That part of aëronautics that deals with passive balloons; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air. [ 1913 Webster +Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The science of weighing air; aërostatics. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. affectatio: cf. F. affectation. ] 1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. “An affectation of contempt.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A striving after. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fondness; affection. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exhibits affectation. [ R. ] Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of affinity. -- Af*fin"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] See Agister. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agitated p. pr. & vb. n. Agitating ] [ L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act, Agent. ] 1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. “Winds . . . agitate the air.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move or actuate. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; rampageous, raging, frenzied ; wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn. -- tossing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. [ Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred. ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In an agitated manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.
Syn. -- agitative, provoking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. agitatio: cf. F. agitation. ] 1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. “Religious agitations.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

The project now in agitation. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Emotion; commotion; excitement; trepidation; tremor; perturbation. See Emotion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to agitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It., agitated. ] (Mus.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Hist.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An implement for shaking or mixing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alimentation, LL. alimentatio. ] 1. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State or mode of being nourished. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. allectatio. ] Enticement; allurement. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Alutaceous. ] The tanning or dressing of leather. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating. ] [ L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: amb- + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative. ] 1. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body). Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation. ] The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who amputates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ana` up + ista`nai to make to stand. ] (Physiol.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'ana` up + ista`nai to make to stand: cf. statiko`s causing to stand. ] Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this process the letterpress, engraving, or design of any kind is transferred to a zinc plate; the parts not covered with ink are eaten out, leaving a facsimile in relief to be printed from. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of plants consisting of a single species, rose of Jericho (also called resurrection plant).
Syn. -- genus Anastatica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a.. [ L. angulus angle + dens, dentis, tooth. ] (Bot.) Angularly toothed, as certain leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. angustatus, p. p. of angustare to make narrow. ] Narrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annotated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annotating. ] [ L. annotatus; p. p. of annotare to annotate; ad + notare to mark, nota mark. See Note, n. ] To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]