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- English Word Amylose Definition One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
- English Word Amyous Definition Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
- English Word Amyss Definition Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
- English Word Amzel Definition The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
- English Word An Definition This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
- English Word An Definition If; -- a word used by old English authors.
- English Word An 't Definition An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
- English Word An't Definition A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
- English Word Ana Definition Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
- English Word Ana- Definition A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
- English Word Anabaptism Definition The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
- English Word Anabaptist Definition A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
- English Word Anabaptistic Definition Alt. of Anabaptistical
- English Word Anabaptistical Definition Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines.
- English Word Anabaptistry Definition The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists.
- English Word Anabaptize Definition To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename.
- English Word Anabas Definition A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.
- English Word Anabasis Definition A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."
- English Word Anabasis Definition The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
- English Word Anabatic Definition Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.