Definition of active

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Active (a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

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Insurrection :: Insurrection (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state..
Croton Bug :: Croton bug () A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes..
Mobilize :: Mobilize (v. t.) To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps..
Sally :: Sally (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind..
Paste :: Paste (n.) A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass..
Fluorine :: Fluorine (n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorles
Actual :: Actual (a.) Involving or comprising action; active.
Beneficence :: Beneficence (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness..
Osmazome :: Osmazome (n.) A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives..
Inert :: Inert (a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
Tomopteris :: Tomopteris (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa..
Bower :: Bower (n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat..
Reactive :: Reactive (a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
Dioptre :: Dioptre (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Hard-featured :: Hard-featured (a.) Having coarse, unattractive or stern features..
Busy :: Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
Distractious :: Distractious (a.) Distractive.
Coactive :: Coactive (a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.
Chylific :: Chylific (a.) Chylifactive.
Active :: Active (a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
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