See Manila hemp under Manila.ДЄbacinate ( v. See A-(6).ДЄb ( n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.ДЄbaca ( n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis) also, its fiber. It signifies from, away, separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.ДЄb- ( ) A prefix in many words of Latin origin. See Proteles.ДЄaronical ( a.) Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.ДЄaron's rod ( ) A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.ДЄaron's rod ( ) A plant with a tall flowering stem esp. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.ДЄard-wolf ( n.) A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3.ДЄam ( n.) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4.ДЄard-vark ( n.) An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. un-.ДЄ 1 ( ) A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist akin to E. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound) as in a hunting, a building, a begging.ДЄ ( ) A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.ДЄ ( ) An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meterДЄ- ( ) A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources.

A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.ДЄ ( ) An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.ДЄ ( ) In each to or for each as, 'twenty leagues a day', 'a hundred pounds a year', 'a dollar a yard', etc.ДЄ ( prep.) In process of in the act of into to - used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff.

The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.ДЄ ( ) The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. A ( ) The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets.

Oblivion the antipodean hammer