World, n. the earth; man kind; universal empire. Worship, n. religious reverence; adoration. v. to perform acts of adoration; to adore. Wor' ship ful, a. respec ted for dignity. Wor' 5thy, a. deserving; valuable; noble. Wran' gle, v. to dispute peevishly. Wrap' per, n. a cloth or paper cover. Wrath, n. anger; fury; Wreaths, n. a garland; any thing twisted. Wreck, n. a shipwreck; destruction; ruin. Wrench, v. to pull by force ; to wrest. Wrest, v. to twist by violence; to writhe. Wretch' ed, a. miserable; despicable. Wright, n. a workman; an artificer in wood. Wring, v. to twist. Wrist' band, n. the fast ening about the wrist. Write, v. to form letters with a pen. Writhes, v. to distort; to twist; to wrest. Wrong, a. not right. n. injury; injustice. v. to injure. Wry, a. crooked; distorted; wrested. Y. YACHT, n. a small vessel for carrying passen. gers. Yawl, n. a ship's boat. Year' ling, a. being a year old. Yearn, v. to feel great uneasiness. 284 VOCABULARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS. ACC AB ER RA TION, n. the act of wandering; a deviation. Ab' la tive,a. taking away; the sixth case of Latin nouns. Ab o ri" gi nal, a. first or primitive. A brasion, n. a rubbing or wearing off. A cat e lep' sis, n. uncertainty in science; incomprehensibility. Ac' cip en sers, genus of amphibious fish n. a Ac cip' i ters, n. an order of fowls with hooked bills. ACT A ceph' a lous, a. without a head; poor. Ach ro mat' ic, a. with out colour. A cin a" ci form, a. shaped like a cimeter. A" cin ōse, a. full of kernels or grains. A co ty le' don, n. a plant whose seeds have no side lobes. A cous' tics, n. pl. the science or theory of sounds. A cron' ic al, a. rising or setting at sunset. Ac tin'i a, n. a genus of sea animals. Ac' tin o lite, n. a species of magnesian stone. Ad e nog ra phy, n. a description of the glands of the body. Ad'i pous, a. fat; greasy; unctuous; oily. A er ol' o gy, n. the doc trine or theory of air. A er om' e try, n. the art of measuring air. A' er o naut, n. one who sails through the air in a balloon. A er os ta' tion, n. passing through the air in balloons. V. to Aga ric, n. a species of fungus. Ag glom' e rate, gather into a ball. Agi o, n. the difference of exchange between bank bills and current money. A gra' ri an, a. relating to an equal division of lands. Al' a bas ter, n. a soft white marble. a. very white. Al' che my, n. the highest and most secret chemistry; transmutation of metals. Al' co hol, n. highly rec tified spirit; the pure inflammable part of spirituous liquors. A lem' bic, n. a chemical mic,} a. A lex i ter' ic, what expels poison. Al' ge bra, n. literal and universal arithmetic. Al' ka li, n. a substance which has an acrid, caustic taste, and which combined with oily matters forms soap. There are three Alkalis: Potash, Soda, and Ammonia. Al ka les' cent, a. tending to an alkali. Al li a' ceous, a. pertain ing to garlic; onions. Al lit e ra tion, n. the beginning of two or more words with the same letter. Al loy', n. a baser metal mixed with a finer; or the mixture of different metals; evil mixed with good. Al lu' vi al, a. washed to land; added by water. Al' u mine,n argil, or pure clay; the base of alum. Al u mi nous, a. containing or like alum or alumine. Al' ve o late, a. deeply pitted, like, a honey comb. Al' vine, a. belonging to the intestinal canal. A mal' gam, n. a mixture of quicksilver with other metals; a well mixed compound. A man u en' sis, n. a writer of another's works or words. Am' ber, n. a hard semi-pellucid substance, white or yellow, found in the earth, or thrown on shore by the sea. Am' ber gris, n. a hard opaque, resinous substance formed in the spermaceti whale. Am bi dex' ter, n. one who uses both hands equally well; a double dealer. Am' ent, n. a catkin; a calyx consisting of a slender axis. Am'e thyst, n. a precious stone of a violet blue, white, gray, or green. Am mo' ni a, Am mo ni ac, n. a gum. my resinous substance; volatile alkali also a very pungent. A mor' phous, a. not having a determinate form. Am phi bol' o gă,n. doubtfulness of expression ; equivocation. Am phyc' tions,n. pl. members of the supreme council of Greece. Am y la ce ous, a. par taking of the nature of starch, or the farinaceous part of corn. An achro nism❝, n. an error in the account of time. An' a gram, n. a trans. posing the letters of a name so as to form some other word or sentence. An a lep' tic, a. comforting; strengthening. A nal' y sis, n. a separation of the parts; a resolution. An' a pest, n. a poetic foot of three syllables, the two first short, the third long. An a sar ca, n. a kind of dropsy. An as tom' o sỹ, n. the opening of one vessel into another as veins and arteries. |