Antenumber :: Antenumber (n.) A number that precedes another.
Antenuptial :: Antenuptial (a.) Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement..
Attenuant :: Attenuant (a.) Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent..
Attenuant :: Attenuant (n.) A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. i.) To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen..
Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation..
Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases..
Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus..
Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Consisting of little links or chains.
Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc..
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. i.) To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
Extenuation :: Extenuation (n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment..