adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + blaze. ] 1. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [ R. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimatized p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing ] To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To acetify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Achromatized p. pr. & vb. n. Achromatizing ] [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; color. ] To deprive of color; to make achromatic. [ Also spelled achromatise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ Pref. a- + crase; or cf. F. écraser to crush. See Crase, Craze. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To craze. [ Obs. ] Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impair; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.
Syn. -- realized [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis. ] To beautify; to dandify. [ 1913 Webster ]

I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To commit adultery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give the force or form of an adverb to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as advertise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. give bad advice to
Syn. -- misadvise, mismisguide, advize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ OE. adese, adis, adse, AS. adesa, adese, ax, hatchet. ] A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [ Amer. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Usually p. p. Agatized ] To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 looking intently; -- used of eyes.
Syn. -- staring [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. [ Only in p. p.; another spelling for aghast. ] Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To increase or become great. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggrandized p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing ] [ F. agrandir; à (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See Grand, and cf. Finish. ] 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agrandissement. ] The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Augmentation; exaltation; enlargement; advancement; promotion; preferment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who aggrandizes, or makes great. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Formed like recognize, fr. L. agnoscere. ] To recognize; to acknowledge. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Agonized p. pr. & vb. n. Agonizing ] [ F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Agony. ] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. [ 1913 Webster ]

To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. [ 1913 Webster ]

He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. expressing pain or agony. agonized screams [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Albumenized p. pr. & vb. n. Albumenizing. ] To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alcoholized p. pr. & vb. n. Alcoholizing. ] [ Cf. F. alcooliser. ] 1. To reduce to a fine powder. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. al the + ghazāl. ] (Zool.) The true gazelle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alkalized p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalizing ] [ Cf. F. alcaliser. ] To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a commerical antacid; -- the tablets dissolve in water to give an effervescent solution. [ trademark ] WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change in physical properties but not in substance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with an alphabet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To amalgamate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amazed p. pr. & vb. n. Amazing. ] [ Pref. a- + maze. ] 1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. “Amazing Europe with her wit.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? Matt. xii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise. -- Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the &unr_;normity of an act, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be astounded. [ Archaic ] B. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [ Chiefly poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wild, bewildered
Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of amazement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [ Obs. ]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

His words impression left
Of much amazement. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Frenzy; madness. [ Obs. ] Webster (1661). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Americanizer p. pr. & vb. n. Americanizing. ] To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. amortisen, LL. amortisare, admortizare, F. amortir to sell in mortmain, to extinguish; L. ad + mors death. See Mortmain ]. 1. To make as if dead; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. [ 1913 Webster ]