See Abb. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + bloom. ] In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. and adv. Above. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + brood. ] In the act of brooding. [ Obs. ] Abp. Sancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + brook, v. ] To brook; to endure. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An A-B-C book; a primer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A book in which accounts are kept. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; colorless + E. dextrin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; color. ] Colorless; achromatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Crookedly. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) One of the Actinozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + doom. ] To adjudge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + foot. ] 1. On foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

We 'll walk afoot a while. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress. [ 1913 Webster ]

The matter being afoot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. outside regular school hours. a special after-school class [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + good. ] In earnest; heartily. [ Obs. ] “I made her weep agood.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In devices generating heat, such as gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the device by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

n. See Alcoholometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The chemists say alcomètre, alcoomètrie, doubtless by the suppression of a syllable in order to avoid a disagreeable sequence of sounds. (Cf. Idolatry.) Littré. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hōfe ground ivy; the first part is perh. a corruption: cf. OE. heyhowe hedgehove, ground ivy, “in old MSS. heyhowe, heyoue, haihoue, halehoue.” Prior. ] Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). [ 1913 Webster ]

The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; changed in color, fr. &unr_; other + &unr_; color. ] Changing color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ See Halloo. ] To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Agalloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Alewife. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + loof, fr. D. loef luff, and so meaning, as a nautical word, to the windward. See Loof, Luff. ] 1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without sympathy; unfavorably. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. Away from; clear from. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. [ PJC ]

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. [ 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. ]

n. The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; flowery + &unr_; animal + -oid. See Zooid. ] (Bot.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Meteor.) The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being an ape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a hardy breed of horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Apprenticeship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Approve, and Proof. ] 1. Trial; proof. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Approval; commendation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A white-flowered west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. Maranta arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. Its root yields arrowroot starch. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
Syn. -- arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots. Also, any of several other similar small trees whose straight shoots were used for making arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any plant (Viburnum recognitum) closely related to southern arrow wood; eastern U.S. Maine to Ohio and Georgia.
Syn. -- arrow wood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Ascidium + zooid. ] (Zool.) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + stoop. ] In a stooping or inclined position. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a swoon. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a swoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. automiste. See Autonomy. ] One who advocates autonomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Babyhood. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]