Definition of an

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An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as twice an hour, once an age, a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every..

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Memory :: Memory (n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong..
Conglutinate :: Conglutinate (v. i.) To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.
Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Petroleum :: Petroleum (n.) Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc..
Ureide :: Ureide (n.) Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides..
Chaconne :: Chaconne (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations..
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor..
Metensomatosis :: Metensomatosis (n.) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.
Redowa :: Redowa (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use..
Aggravatingly :: Aggravatingly (adv.) In an aggravating manner.
Stagnant :: Stagnancy (n.) State of being stagnant.
Guardant :: Guardant (v. t.) Acting as guardian.
Operatively :: Operatively (adv.) In an operative manner.
Flushingly :: Flushingly (adv.) In a flushing manner.
Isopathy :: Isopathy (n.) The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..
Abidance :: Abidance (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
Dispart :: Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight..
Remission :: Remission (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement..
Intercross :: Intercross (n.) The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants..
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