English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Athwart
(adv.)
Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
Atilt
(adv.)
In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the
action, of one making a thrust.
Atilt
(adv.)
In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised.
[In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]
Atimy
(n.)
Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.
Atlanta
(n.)
A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming
at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
Atlantal
(a.)
Relating to the atlas.
Atlantal
(a.)
Anterior; cephalic.
Atlantean
(a.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
Atlantean
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the
ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
Atlantes
(n. pl.)
Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to
support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
Atlantic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
Atlantic
(a.)
Descended from Atlas.
Atlantic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied
to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and
America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic);
the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
Atlantides
(n. pl.)
The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been
the daughters of Atlas.
Atlas
(n.)
A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or
arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
Atlas
(n.)
A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
Atlas
(n.)
A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
Atlas
(n.)
A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; --
called also atlas folio.
Atlas
(n.)
A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
Atlas
(n.)
One who sustains a great burden.