n. 1. 1 (Electricity) a unit of electrical current equal to 10 amperes.
Syn. -- abamp [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of birds comprising the mynas.
Syn. -- genus Acridotheres. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + &unr_; part. ] (Zool.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Cœlenterata. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Adhered p. pr. & vb. n. Adhering ] [ L. adhaerere, adhaesum; ad + haerere to stick: cf. F. adhérer. See Aghast. ] 1. To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. “Nor time nor place did then adhere.” “Every thing adheres together.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To attach; stick; cleave; cling; hold [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. adhérence, LL. adhaerentia. ] 1. The quality or state of adhering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now almost entirely separated. Adherence is no longer used to denote physical union, but is applied, to mental states or habits; as, a strict adherence to one's duty; close adherence to the argument, etc. Adhesion is now confined chiefly to the physical sense, except in the phrase “To give in one's adhesion to a cause or a party.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which adheres. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adhaerens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F. adhérent. ] 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which adheres; an appendage. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter; dependent; ally; backer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adherent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adheres; an adherent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adeps, adipis, fat + cera wax: cf. F. adipocere. ] A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending -er. See Advoutrer. ] 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. from L. adulter. Cf. Advoutress. ] 1. A woman who commits adultery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ NL. aërenchyma. See Aëro-; Enchyma. ] (Bot.) A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Aëro- + sphere: cf. F. aérosphère. ] The atmosphere. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. aforeur, LL. afforator. ] (Old Law) One who affeers. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. afferens, p. pr. of afferre; ad + ferre to bear. ] (Physiol.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To look after. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + hungered. ] Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. Ar. al-fārs knight. ] An ensign; a standard bearer. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Everywhere. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ From the name of a French electrician. ] (Elec.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) The quantity of electricity delivered in hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of charge quantity; the Ampere hour is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms and are sometimes similarly used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a unit of charge equal to that acquired by the accumulation of one ampere for one second.
Syn. -- coulomb, C [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Elec.) A unit of magnetomotive force equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 21/2 ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Ampère + meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ahungered; longing. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ From Gr. 'a`noplos unarmed ('an priv. + 'o`plon an implement, weapon) + qhri`on beast. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., geese. ] (Zool.) A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Wireless Teleg.) A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ . anti- + -mere. ] (Biol.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with antlers. [ 1913 Webster ]

The antlered stag. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In any place. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L. ] Same as Apheresis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aphaeresis, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to take away; &unr_; + &unr_; to take. ] 1. (Gram.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [ Obs. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A female archer. Markham. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ. archieréi, fr. Gr. 'archierey`s; pref. 'archi- (E. arch-) + "ierey`s priest.] The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton. [1913 Webster]

v. t. & i. See Arear. [ Obs. ] Ellis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. arrière. See Arrear. ] “That which is behind”; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arriere fee,
Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. --
Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. OE. arban, heriban, fr. OHG. hariban, heriban, G. heerbann, the calling together of an army; OHG. heri an army + ban a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arrière-ban, though arrière has no connection with its proper meaning. See Ban, Abandon. ] A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`rqron joint + -mere. ] (Zool.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves. [ RHUD ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; vapor (akin to Skr. ātman breath, soul, G. athem breath) + &unr_; sphere: cf. F. atmosphère. See Sphere. ] 1. (Physics) (a) The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. (b) Any gaseous envelope or medium. [ 1913 Webster ]

An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 lbs. to the sq. inch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chillest of social atmospheres. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. (Zool.) (a) The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere. (b) Less often, the mass of archoplasm left by the aster in the resting cell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Bot.) A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]