English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Atrocity
(n.)
Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
Atrophic
(a.)
Relating to atrophy.
Atrophied
(p. p.)
of Atrophy
Atrophied
(p. a.)
Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested
in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.
Atrophy
(v. i.)
To waste away; to dwindle.
Atrophy
(v. t.)
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or
weaken.
Atrophy
(n.)
A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in
bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
Atropia
(n.)
Same as Atropine.
Atropine
(n.)
A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted
from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura
Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating
the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.
Atropism
(n.)
A condition of the system produced by long use of
belladonna.
Atropous
(a.)
Not inverted; orthotropous.
Atrous
(a.)
Coal-black; very black.
Atrypa
(n.)
A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian
limestones.
Attabal
(n.)
See Atabal.
Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to
show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.
Attach
(n.)
An attachment.
Attach
(v. i.)
To adhere; to be attached.
Attach
(v. t.)
To take, seize, or lay hold of.
Attach
(v. t.)
To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and
bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; --
applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely
used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real
estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a
judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
Attach
(v. t.)
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or
attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a
particular circumstance.