a. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Abominable. [ A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
This is abhominable, which he [ Don Armado ] would call abominable. Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. ab away from + homo, hominis, man. ] Inhuman. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]
It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [ Obs. ] “To abhor from those vices.” Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]
Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Abhorrence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. abhorens, -rentis, p. pr. of abhorrere. ]
The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent. Clover. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. With abhorrence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who abhors. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Detestable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
‖ [ L., without this. ] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Acaleph + -oid. ] (Zool.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Having the fruit covered with spines. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a spine, thorn + &unr_; head. ] (Zool.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; spine +
a. [ Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Bot.) Having spinous petioles. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; wing, fin. ] (Zool.) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_; spine + &unr_; wing. ]
a. (Zool.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. --
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fin, dim. fr. &unr_; wing. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n.
‖n. [ NL., from Gr.
a. (Med.) Lacking bile.
n. A stony meteor lacking chondrules. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj.
n. (Med.) A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj. (Med.) of or pertaining to achondroplasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + &unr_; voice. ] (Physics) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. (Physics) Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays;
a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray +
a. [ Gr.
a. [ Adeno- + Gr.
‖ [ L., to the man. ] A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. adhortari. See Adhortation. ] To exhort; to advise. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. adhortatio, fr. adhortari to advise; ad + hortari to exhort. ] Advice; exhortation. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [ Obs. ] Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Religious indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Adiaphorous. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Adiaphorist. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ Gr.