Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 83
Aquarian (a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium.
Aquarian (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.
Aquariums (n. pl. ) of Aquarium.
Aquaria (n. pl. ) of Aquarium.
Aquarium (n.) [C] 養魚缸；水草缸；水族槽；水族館 An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.
Aquarium (n.) A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals [syn: aquarium, fish tank, marine museum].
Aquarius (n.) (Astron.) 【天】寶瓶（星）座；寶瓶宮；水瓶座 The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.
Aquarius (n.) (Astron.) A constellation south of Pegasus.
Aquarius (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer].
Aquarius (n.) A zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Capricornus and Pisces.
Aquarius (n.) The eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer].
Aquatic (a.) 水生的；水棲的；水上的；水中（進行）的 Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
Aquatic (n.) 水生動物 [C]；水生植物 An aquatic animal or plant.
Aquatic (n.) pl. 水上運動 [P] [G] Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.
Aquatic (a.) Relating to or consisting of or being in water; "an aquatic environment."
Aquatic (a.) Operating or living or growing in water; "boats are aquatic vehicles"; "water lilies are aquatic plants"; "fish are aquatic animals" [ant: {amphibious}, {terrestrial}].
Aquatic (n.) A plant that lives in or on water.
Aquatical (a.) Aquatic. [R.]
Aquatile (a.) Inhabiting the water. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Aquatint (n.) Alt. of Aquatinta
Aquatinta (n.) A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.
Aqueduct (n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.
Note: The term is also applied to a structure (similar to the ancient aqueducts), for conveying a canal over a river or hollow; more properly called an aqueduct bridge.
Aqueduct (n.) (Anat.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
Aqueduct (n.) A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley.
Aqueity (n.) Wateriness. [Obs.]
Aqueous (a.) Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.
The aqueous vapor of the air. -- Tyndall.
Aqueous (a.) Made from, or by means of, water.
An aqueous deposit. -- Dana.
Aqueous extract, An extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water.
Aqueous humor (Anat.), One the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.)
Aqueous rocks (Geol.), Those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.
Aqueous (a.) Similar to or containing or dissolved in water; "aqueous solutions."
Aqueous (a.) Produced by the action of water [syn: aqueous, sedimentary] [ant: eruptive, igneous].
Aqueousness (n.) Wateriness.
Aquiferous (a.) Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.
Aquiferous (a.) Of or relating to an aquifer.
Aquiform (a.) Having the form of water.
Aquilae (n. pl. ) of Aquila.
Aquila (n.) (Zool.) A genus of eagles.
Aquila (n.) (Astron.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.
Aquila alba () An alchemical name of calomel. -- Brande & C.
Aquilated (a.) (Her.) Adorned with eagles' heads.
Aquiline (a.) （似）鷹的；（似鷹嘴）彎曲的，鉤狀的 Belonging to or like an eagle.
Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.
Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. -- Cowper.
Aquiline (a.) Curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: {aquiline}, {hooked}].
Aquilon (n.) The north wind. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Aquiparous (a.) (Med.) Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. -- Dunglison.
Aquitanian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.
Aquose (a.) Watery; aqueous. [R.] -- Bailey.
Aquosity (n.) The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. -- Huxley.
Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. -- Holland.
Ar (conj.) Ere; before. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ar (n.) A colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18].
Ar (n.) A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar].
Ar (n.) A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR].
Ara (n.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.
Ara (n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.
Arab (n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Arabesque (n.) 阿拉伯式花紋；蔓藤花紋 A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.
Arabesque (a.) Arabian.
Arabesque (a.) 阿拉伯式圖案的 Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.
Arabesqued (a.) Ornamented in the style of arabesques.
Arabian (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.
Arabian (n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab.
Arabic (a.) 阿拉伯的；阿拉伯人的 Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.
{Arabic numerals} or {Figures}, (ph.) 阿拉伯數字 The nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0.
{Gum arabic}. (ph.) 水溶性阿拉伯膠 See under {Gum}.
Arabic (n.) 阿拉伯語 The language of the Arabians.
Note: The Arabic is a Semitic language, allied to the Hebrew. It is very widely diffused, being the language in which all Moslems must read the Koran, and is spoken as a vernacular tongue in Arabia, Syria, and Northern Africa.
Arabic (a.) Relating to or characteristic of Arabs; "Arabic languages."
Arabic (n.) The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects [syn: {Arabic}, {Arabic language}].
Arabic (n.) 阿拉伯語 是除了英語、法語和西班牙語之外最多國家使用的官方語言。阿拉伯語源自公元6世紀的古典阿拉伯語。它包括書面語及流通於中東、北非和非洲之角（即索馬利亞半島）的各種口語。阿拉伯語屬於亞非語系。
Arabic is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. [5] It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai Peninsula. Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic, [6] which is derived from Classical Arabic.
Arabical (a.) Relating to Arabia; Arabic.
Arabin (n.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.
Arabin (n.) Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.
Arabinose (n.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.
Arabism (n.) An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. -- Stuart.
Arabist (n.) One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.
Arable (a.) 適於耕種的；可開墾的 Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.
Arable (n.) 耕地 Arable land; plow land.
Arable (a.) (Of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively [syn: {arable}, {cultivable}, {cultivatable}, {tillable}].
Araby (n.) The country of Arabia.
Aracanese (a.) Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah.
Aracanese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Aracan.
Aracari (n.) A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.
Arace (v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
Araceous (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.
Arachnid (n.) 【動】蛛形綱動物 An arachnidan. -- Huxley.
Arachnid (n.) Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs [syn: {arachnid}, {arachnoid}].
Arachnida (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.
Arachnidan (n.) 節肢動物 One of the Arachnida.
Arachnidian (a.) 節肢類的 Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida [syn: {arachnoid}, {arachnidian}, {spidery}, {spiderlike}, {spiderly}].
Arachnidial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Arachnida.
Arachnidial (a.) Pertaining to the arachnidium.
Arachnidium (n.) The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.
Arachnitis (n.) Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.
Arachnoid (a.) 蛛網狀的；【解】蛛網膜的 Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
Arachnoid (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
Arachnoid (a.) (Bot.) Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
Arachnoid (n.) (Anat.) 【解】蛛網膜 The arachnoid membrane.
Arachnoid (n.) (Zool.) One of the Arachnoidea.
arachnoid
Arachnoid (a.) Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida [syn: {arachnoid}, {arachnidian}, {spidery}, {spiderlike}, {spiderly}].
Arachnoid (n.) The middle of the 3 meninges [syn: {arachnoid}, {arachnoid membrane}].
Arachnoid (n.) Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs [syn: {arachnid}, {arachnoid}].
Arachnoidal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid.
Arachnoidea (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.)
Same as Arachnida.
Arachnological (a.) Of or pertaining to arachnology.
Arachnologist (n.) One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.
Arachnology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida.
Araeometer () See Areometer.
Compare: Areometer
Areometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer. Areometric
Araeostyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation.
Araeosystyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation.
Aragonese (a.) Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants.
Aragonese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain.
Aragonite (n.) (Min.)
A mineral composed of calcium carbonate and identical in composition with calcite, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.
aragonite
n 1: a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic
with calcite
Araguato (n.) (Zool.)
A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.
Araise (v. t.) To raise. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Arak (n.) Same as Arrack.
Compare: Arrack
Arrack \Ar"rack\ (?; 277), n. [Ar. araq sweat, juice, spirituous
liquor, fr. araqa to sweat. Cf. Rack arrack.]
A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all
ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented
mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree
or the date palm, etc.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
arrack
n 1: any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented
sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses [syn:
arak
n 1: any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented
sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses [syn:
Aramaean (a.) Alt. of Aramean
Aramean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic.
Aramean (n.) A native of Aram.
Aramaean
adj 1: of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their
culture or their language [syn: Aramean, Aramaean]
n 1: a member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting
Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th
century BC [syn: Aramean, Aramaean]
Aramaic (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
Aramaic (n.) The Aramaic language.
Aramaic
adj 1: of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages
n 1: a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but
still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
2: an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the
9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other
scripts were subsequently derived from it [syn: Aramaic,
Aramaism (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.
Araneida (n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea
Araneoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) See Araneina.
Araneida
n 1: spiders [syn: Araneae, order Araneae, Araneida,
Araneidan (a.) (Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders.
Araneidan (n.) (Zool.)
One of the Araneina; a spider.
araneidan
adj 1: relating to or resembling a spider [syn: araneidal,
Araneiform (a.) (Zool.)
Having the form of a spider. --Kirby.
Arachnida \A*rach"ni*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? spider.]
(Zool.)
One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in
Appendix.
[1913 Webster]
Note: They have four pairs of legs, no antenn[ae] nor wings,
a pair of mandibles, and one pair of maxill[ae] or
palpi. The head is usually consolidated with the
thorax. The respiration is either by tranche[ae] or by
pulmonary sacs, or by both. The class includes three
principal orders: Araneina, or spiders;
Arthrogastra, including scorpions, etc.; and
Acarina, or mites and ticks.
[1913 Webster]
Araneina (n. pl.) (Zool.)
The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.
Note: They have mandibles, modified as poison fangs, leglike
palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and
spinnerets for spinning a web. They breathe by
pulmonary sacs and trache[ae] in the abdomen. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]
Araneose (a.) Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.
Araneous (a.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid.
Arangoes (n. pl. ) of Arango.