n. (Med.) A medicine that diminishes or alleviates irritation. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. (Med.) Diminishing or alleviating irritation Stedman. [ AS ]

a. [ LL. absentaneus. See absent ] Pertaining to absence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being accepted; acceptableness. “Makes it assured of acceptance.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) (a) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance. (b) The bill itself when accepted. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved. [ 1913 Webster ]

acceptance of a bill of exchange,
acceptance of a check,
acceptance of a draft, or
acceptance of an order, is an engagement to pay it according to the terms. This engagement is usually made by writing the word “accepted” across the face of the bill.
Acceptance of goods, under the statute of frauds, is an intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of the transaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Meaning; acceptation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under Accept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acceptance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's a proof of gift,
But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accepting; receiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An accepter. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Accountant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or employment of an accountant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr. ] 1. One who renders account; one accountable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A reckoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accountable. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Accountant + -ship. ] The office or employment of an accountant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Acetyl + anilide. ] (Med., Chem.) An amide formed from aniline and an acetyl group (C6H5.NH.CO.CH3); it is a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic. It has molecular weight 135.16. [ Written also acetanilid ] AS
Syn. -- phenylacetamide, N-phenylacetamide, antifebrin, antifebrine, acetylaminobenzene, acetylaniline [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 + AS ]

n. [ OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint. ] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of acquaintance, to be intimate. --
To take acquaintance of or
with, to make the acquaintance of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. -- Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acointant, p. pr. ] An acquaintance. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aquitance, fr. aquiter. See Acquit. ] 1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To acquit. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an acropolis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Acute-angled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., for catching. ] A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adjutant. ] 1. The office of an adjutant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid. ] 1. A helper; an assistant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of admitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. [ 1913 Webster ]

To gain admittance into the house. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Admissibility. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. “No admittance.” Its secondary or moral sense, as “admittance to the church, ” is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) The reciprocal of impedance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a mountainous country in central Asia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Afghanis.
Syn. -- Afghani, Afghan, afghanistani [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
Syn. -- Afghan, Pashto, Pathan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

adj. prenom. 1. of the greatest importance. the all-important subject of disarmament
Syn. -- all important(predicate), crucial, essential, of the essence(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. amplecti to embrace. ] (Bot.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Annuity. ] One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'anti`/ + 'ana`klasis a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic. ] (Rhet.) (a) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. (b) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pref. anti- + anagoge. ] (Rhet.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1, 000, 000. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch; same as flying buttress. Gwilt.
Syn. -- flying buttress [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Facing each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assistance. ] 1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wat Tyler [ was ] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Persons present. [ Obs. or a Gallicism ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister. ] 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. [ 1913 Webster ]

Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An attendant; one who is present. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to give aid. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Kazakhstan. Population (2000) = 280, 200. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature.
Syn. -- witness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See August, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. --
Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. -- n. The language of the Avesta (an ancient Iranian language); -- less properly called Zend.
Syn. -- Zend [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gael. bealltainn, bealltuinn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The first day of May (Old Style). [ 1913 Webster ]

The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]