Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 94
Artiodactylous (a.) (Zool.) 偶蹄動物的 Even-toed.
Artiodactylous (a.) Of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla [syn: {artiodactyl}, {artiodactylous}, {even-toed}].
Artisan (n.) 工匠；技工 [C] One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]
Artisan (n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. -- Hume.
Syn: Artificer; artist.
Usage: {Artisan}, {Artist}, {Artificer}. An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist.
Artisan (n.) A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: {craftsman}, {artisan}, {journeyman}, {artificer}].
Artist (n.) 藝術家；美術家（尤指畫家）；（某行業的）能手，大師；藝人 One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. [Obs.]
How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. -- Waller.
Artist (n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
Note: The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects. -- Elmes.
Artist (n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation. -- Pope.
Artist (n.) An artful person; a schemer. [Obs.]
Syn: Artisan. See {Artisan}.
Artist (n.) A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination [syn: {artist}, {creative person}].
Artiste (n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.
Artistic (a.) Alt. of Artistical
Artistic (a.) (B2) [ Before noun ] 藝術的；美術的 Relating to art.
// The artistic director of the theatre.
// Artistic endeavours.
// A work of artistic merit.
Artistic (a.) (B2) 有藝術天賦的；有藝術鑒賞力的 Able to create or enjoy art.
// His friends are all artistic - they're painters, musicians, and writers.
Artistic (a.) 富有藝術性的；精美的，精彩的 Skilfully and attractively made.
// That's a very artistic flower arrangement you have there.
Artistical (a.) 藝術的；美術的；唯美（主義）的；藝術家的 [Z]；富有藝術性的，精美的，精彩的；有藝術鑑賞力的；有藝術天賦的 Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- {Ar*tis"tic*al*ly}, adv.
Artistic (a.) Relating to or characteristic of art or artists; "his artistic background".
Artistic (a.) Satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; "artistic workmanship".
Artistic (a.) Aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement" [syn: aesthetic, esthetic, artistic].
Artistry (n.) 藝術性；藝術效果；藝術才能；藝術技巧；藝術作品 Works of art collectively.
Artistry (n.) Artistic effect or quality. -- Southey.
Artistry (n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. -- The Academy.
Artistry (n.) A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" [syn: {art}, {artistry}, {prowess}].
Artless (a.) 單純的，天真的，不諳世故的；無虛飾的，自然的 Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Artless of stars and of the moving sand. -- Dryden.
Artless (a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
Artless and massy pillars. -- T. Warton.
Artless (a.) Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. -- Porteus.
O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! -- Cowper.
Syn: Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless; unsophisticated; open; frank; candid.
Artless (a.) Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: {ingenuous}, {artless}] [ant: {artful}, {disingenuous}].
Artless (a.) Simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance" [ant: {artful}].
Artless (a.) Showing lack of art; "an artless translation".
Artless (a.) (Of persons) Lacking art or knowledge [syn: {artless}, {uncultivated}, {uncultured}].
Artlessly (adv.) 不狡猾地；天真爛漫地；不嬌揉造作地；自然地；粗笨地；拙劣地 In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. -- Pope.
Artlessly (adv.) In a crude and unskilled manner; "an inexpertly constructed lean-to" [syn: {artlessly}, {crudely}, {inexpertly}].
Artlessly (adv.) In an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly" [syn: {artlessly}, {ingenuously}].
Artlessness (n.) [U] 單純；樸實；缺乏技巧；笨拙 The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
Artlessness (n.) The quality of innocent naivete [syn: {artlessness}, {innocence}, {ingenuousness}, {naturalness}].
Artlessness (n.) Ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit [ant: {artfulness}].
Artlessness (n.) A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
Artly (adv.) With art or skill. [Obs.]
Artocarpeous (a.) Alt. of Artocarpous.
Artocarpous (a.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus {Artocarpus}.
Compare: Breadfruit
Breadfruit (n.) The large round starchy fruit of a tropical tree, which is used as a vegetable and sometimes to make a substitute for flour.
Breadfruit (n.) The large evergreen tree which bears breadfruit, which is widely cultivated on the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean.
Artocarpus altilis, family Moraceae 麵包果（學名: Artocarpus altilis，英語: Breadfruit）又稱麵包樹，屬桑科，是典型的熱帶多年生常綠果樹。原產印度尼西亞、馬來西亞等國，現斯里蘭卡、美國的夏威夷、墨西哥、巴西、扎伊爾（剛果民主共和國）等國有栽培，我國海南的萬寧、保亭、儋州，台灣的宜蘭、屏東、花蓮有零星種植。非洲麵包樹（Treculia africana）原產於熱帶非洲，作為次要的糧食作物。果實可食用，風味類似麵包，因此而得名。
Compare: Moraceae
Moraceae (n.) 桑科（學名：Moraceae）是真雙子葉植物薔薇目的一科，包括40個屬，超過一千種，廣泛分布在熱帶和亞熱帶地區，只有少數種能生活在溫帶地區，中國有16屬約160餘種。
The Moraceae -- often called the mulberry family or fig family -- are a family of flowering plants comprising about 38 genera and over 1100 species. [2] Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates; however, there is a cosmopolitan distribution overall. The only synapomorphy within Moraceae is presence of laticifers and milky sap in all parenchymatous tissues, but generally useful field characters include two carpels sometimes with one reduced, compound inconspicuous flowers, and compound fruits. [3] The family includes well-known plants such as the fig, banyan, breadfruit, mulberry, and Osage-orange. The 'flowers' of Moraceae are often pseudanthia (reduced inflorescences).
Breadfruit (n.) [South African] Another term for bread tree.
Artocarpus (n.) 桂木屬（學名：Artocarpus）又名波羅蜜屬，是薔薇目桑科下的一個屬，為喬木植物。該屬共有約64種 [1]，分布於印度、馬來半島至中國。[2]
Is a genus of approximately 60 trees and shrubs of Southeast Asian and Pacific origin, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae. Most species of Artocarpus are restricted to Southeast Asia; a few cultivated species are more widely distributed, especially A. altilis (breadfruit) and A. heterophyllus (jackfruit), which are cultivated throughout the tropics. [1]
Artotype (n.) A kind of autotype.
Artotyrite (n.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]
Artow () A contraction of art thou.
Artsman (n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.
Art union () An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
Arum (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.
Arundelian (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
Arundiferous (a.) Producing reeds or canes.
Arundinaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
Arundineous (a.) Abounding with reeds; reedy.
Aruspices (n. pl. ) of Aruspex.
Aruspex (n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.
Aruspice (n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.
Aruspicy (n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
Arval (n.) A funeral feast.
Arvicole (n.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.
Aryan (n.) 亞利安語；亞利安人；印歐語；印歐語系的人 One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
Aryan (n.) The language of the original Aryans. [Written also {Arian}.]
Aryan (n.) (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [Written also {Arian}.]
Aryan (a.) 亞利安語系的；亞利安人種的；印歐語系的 Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
Aryan (a.) Of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo- European migrations" [syn: {Indo-European}, {Indo-Aryan}, {Aryan}].
Aryan (n.) (According to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew).
Aryan (n.) A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European [syn: {Aryan}, {Indo-European}].
Aryanize (v. t.) To make Aryan (a language, or in language).
Arytenoid (a.) Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.
As (adv. & conj.) Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
As (adv. & conj.) In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
As (adv. & conj.) While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
As (adv. & conj.) Because; since; it being the case that.
As (adv. & conj.) Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
As (adv. & conj.) That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
As (adv. & conj.) As if; as though.
As (adv. & conj.) For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
As (adv. & conj.) Than.
As (adv. & conj.) Expressing a wish.
As (n.) An ace.
Asses (pl. ) of As.
As (n.) A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
As (n.) A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.
Asa (n.) An ancient name of a gum.
Asafetida (n.) Alt. of Asafoetida.
Asafoetida (n.) The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
Asaphus (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.
Asarabacca (n.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.
Asarone (n.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.
Asbestic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.
Asbestiform (a.) Having the form or structure of asbestus.
Asbestine (a.) Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.
Asbestous (a.) Asbestic.
Asbestus (n.) Alt. of Asbestos.
Asbestos (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.
Asbolin (n.) A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
Ascarides (n. pl. ) of Ascarid.
Ascarid (n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
Ascended (imp. & p. p.) of Ascend.
Ascending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascend.
Ascend (v. t.) 攀登；登上 To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Ascend (v. i.) 登高；上升；追溯（到某個時間）[（+to）] To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}.
Higher yet that star ascends. -- Bowring.
I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17.
Note: Formerly used with up.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. -- Addison.
Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
Ascend (v.) Travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn: {ascend}, {go up}] [ant: {come down}, {descend}, {fall}, {go down}].
Ascend (v.) Go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly".
Ascend (v.) Become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death".
Ascend (v.) Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house" [syn: {ascend}, {climb up}].
Ascend (v.) Go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware".
Ascend (v.) Slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill".
Ascend (v.) Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: {rise}, {come up}, {uprise}, {ascend}] [ant: {go down}, {go under}, {set}].
Ascend (v.) Move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great [syn: {ascend}, {move up}, {rise}].
Ascendable (a.) 可上升的；可攀登的；爬得上去的 Capable of being ascended.
Ascendable (a.) Capable of being ascended [syn: {ascendable}, {ascendible}, {climbable}].
Ascendancy (n.) 優勢，優越；權勢；支配權 Alt. of Ascendance.
Ascendance (n.) Same as {Ascendency}.
Ascendancy (n.) The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: {dominance}, {ascendance}, {ascendence}, {ascendancy}, {ascendency}, {control}].
Ascendant (n.) Ascent; height; elevation. [R.]
Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. -- Temple.
Ascendant (n.) (Astrol.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
Note: Hence the phrases.
{To be in the ascendant}, To have commanding power or influence, and.
{Lord of the ascendant}, One who has possession of such power or influence; as, to rule, for a while, lord of the ascendant. -- Burke.
Ascendant (n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent. -- Robertson.
Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to {descendant}. -- Ayliffe. Ascendant.
Ascendant (a.) Alt. of Ascendent
Ascendent (a.) 上升的；優勢的 Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. -- Browne.
Ascendent (a.) Rising; ascending. -- Ruskin.
Ascendent (a.) Superior; surpassing; ruling.
An ascendant spirit over him. -- South.
The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth. -- J. S. Mill.
Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. -- Grote.
Ascendant (a.) Tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {ascensive}].
Ascendant (a.) Most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {dominating}].
Ascendant (n.) 優越；祖先；（占星術的）星位 Position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant" [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}].
Ascendant (n.) Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: {ancestor}, {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {antecedent}, {root}] [ant: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Ascendency (n.) 優勢，優越；權勢 Governing or controlling influence; the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; domination; power.
An undisputed ascendency. -- Macaulay.
Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. -- Watts.
Syn: Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination; dominance; ascendance; ascendence.
Ascendency (n.) The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: {dominance}, {ascendance}, {ascendence}, {ascendancy}, {ascendency}, {control}].
Ascendible (a.) Capable of being ascended; climbable.
Ascending (a.) Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.
Ascension (n.) 上升，升高；登基，即位 The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
Ascension (n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
Ascension (n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Ascension Day (n.) [ C usually singular ] 耶穌升天節（復活節後的第六個星期四） The sixth Thursday after Easter, when Christians celebrate Christ's journey from earth to heaven.
Ascensional (a.) 上升的的；上行的；升高的 Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.
Ascensive (a.) 上升的；進步的 Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Ascensive (a.) Augmentative; intensive.
Ascent (n.) 上升；登高 [S1]；（身分，地位等的）提高，提升 [U]；上坡路；上升的坡度 [C] The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
Ascent (n.) The way or means by which one ascends.
Ascent (n.) An eminence, hill, or high place.
Ascent (n.) The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
Ascent (n.) An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: {ascent}, {acclivity}, {rise}, {raise}, {climb}, {upgrade}] [ant: {declension}, {declination}, {decline}, {declivity}, {descent}, {downslope}, {fall}].
Ascent (n.) A movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: {rise}, {rising}, {ascent}, {ascension}] [ant: {fall}].
Ascent (n.) The act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: {rise}, {ascent}, {ascension}, {ascending}].