n. [ F. abatture, fr. abattre. See Abate. ] Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., from acciaccare to crush. ] (Mus.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [ R. ] Caldwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).
Syn. -- acculturational [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Action. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A desid. of L. agere, actum, to act. ] Tendency or impulse to act. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acus needle + punctura a pricking, fr. pungere to prick: cf. F. acuponcture. ] Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.): The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes, such as to relieve pain. It was first recorded as being practised in China, and the technique is believed to be over 2, 000 years old. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Acupuncture
(An NIH Consensus Statement prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts)

November 3-5, 1997
Vol. 15, No. 5

Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in post-operative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofacial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
taken from: https://web.archive.org/web/20011126211520/http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_intro.htm [ PJC ]

v. t. To treat with acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjudication. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., let him be admitted. ] The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. admiscere, admixtum, to admix; ad + miscere to mix. See Mix. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of mixing; mixture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is mixed with anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of “to happen, befall.” See Advene. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Risk; danger; peril. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was in great adventure of his life. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. [ 1913 Webster ]

He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adventured p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring ] [ OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n. ] 1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, [ 1913 Webster ]

Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to adventure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aventurier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to adventurism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF. aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n. ] 1. Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring; hazardous; venturesome. See Rash. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Agricultural ant (Zool.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice. [1913 Webster]

n. An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and Culture. ] The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcoolature. ] (Med.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of brush turkeys.
Syn. -- genus Alectura. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. a- + liturgical. ] (Eccl.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow. ] (Law) “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (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. A mazy winding. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Angostura, in Venezuela. ] A bitter aromatic bark, obtained from a South American tree of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, or Galipea officinalis). It is used used as a tonic, in medicines, liqueurs and bitters. U. S. Disp. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

See Angostura bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of large Old World butterflies.
Syn. -- genus Apatura. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. apertura, fr. aperire. See Aperient. ] 1. The act of opening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100° aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + E. culture. ] Rearing of bees for their honey and wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ It., fr. appogiarre to lean, to rest; ap- (L. ad) + poggiare to mount, ascend, poggio hill, fr. L. podium an elevated place. ] (Mus.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to aquiculture. aquacultural methods
Syn. -- aquicultural, hydroponic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. aqua water, + punctura puncture, pungere, punctum, to, prick. ] (Med.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]