‖n. (Zool.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Forsaken, deserted. “Your abandoned streams.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abandons. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid; mentioned or named earlier in the same text (in written documents). [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n. [ NL. See Acetone; Hæma-. ] (Med.) A morbid condition characterized by the presence of ketone bodies (including acetone, acetoacetic acid and beta-hydroxybutyric acid) in the blood, as in diabetes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

n. [ See Acetic. ] (Chem.) A volatile liquid (CH3.CO.CH3); pyroacetic spirit; methyl ketone; -- obtained by fermentation, the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime. It is commonly used as a solvent. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The term was once also applied to a number of bodies of similar constitution, more frequently called ketones. See Ketone. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Acetic + phenyl + one. ] (Chem.) A crystalline ketone, CH3.CO.C6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + &unr_; voice. ] (Physics) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Admonisher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Adonēus. ] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. “Fair Adonean Venus.” Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. aéronef. ] A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine. Now called airplane. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; voice. ] (a) A form of combined speaking and ear trumpet. (b) An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; shaken, &unr_; to shake. ] (Aëronautics) The science of gliding and soaring flight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Disposed. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected; conceited. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
Syn. -- genus Aglaonema. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & adv. Ago. [ Archaic & Poet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Agonic. ] Agonic line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For nachebone. For loss of n, cf. Adder. See Natch. ] The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [ Spelt also edgebone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., pl. of Alcyon. ] (Zool.) The kingfishers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; flour. ] (Bot.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (“protein granules”) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. aumener, aulmener, OF. almosnier, aumosnier, F. aumônier, fr. OF. almosne, alms, L. eleemosyna. See Alms. ] 1. One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social worker in a hospital. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

3. An official in a hospital whose job it is to calculate how much a patient must pay for treatment. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

n. The office of an almoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ān one, alone. See All, One, Lone. ] 1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sole; only; exclusive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To let alone or
To leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Solely; simply; exclusively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Only; merely; singly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Exclusive. [ Obs. ] Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [ R. ] Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Min.) A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Named from the river Amazon. ] (Min.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + E. peptone. ] (Physiol.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Ancon, above. ] (Arch.) (a) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [ Obs. ] Gwilt. (b) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. “The olecranon on anconeal process.” Flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. ancon elbow. ] (Anat.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anemone, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; wind. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is sometimes pronounced especially by classical scholars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the rue anemone.
Syn. -- genus Anemonella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. (Med.) Neuropathy of the neurons innervating blood vessels. Called also Angioneurosis, Vasomotor neurosis, Vasoneurosis. [ AS ]

2. (Med) Angiopathic neuropathy. [ AS ]

‖n. [ NL.; angio- + neurosis. ] (Med.) Angioneuropathy{ 1 }. The term angioneuropathy is now used more frequently than angioneurosis. -- An`gi*o*neu*rot"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS]

v. t. [ L. anteponere. ] To put before; to prefer. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anthracene + quinone. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Meteorol.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing. [ 1913 Webster ]