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Abacinating
- verb - blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"
Abacination
- - The act of abacinating.
Abecedarian
- adjective - a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
- a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
- alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
Abecedarius
- noun - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
Abocclusion
- noun - the condition in which the upper teeth do not touch the lower teeth when biting
Abscissions
- noun - shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- the act of cutting something off
Abscondence
- - Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
Abscondment
- noun - the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest)
Aciculiform
- - Needle-shaped; acicular.
Acocanthera
- noun - small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa