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Alackaday
- - An exclamation expressing sorrow.
Alacrious
- - Brisk; joyously active; lively.
Alecithal
- - Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
Aleconner
- - Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]
Alectoria
- noun - lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus
Alectoris
- noun - a genus of Perdicidae
Alicyclic
- - pertaining to compounds that have a ring in the structure, but are not aromatic, as cyclohexane or cyclohexene. Compare aliphatic and aromatic.
Anacanths
- - A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.
Anacardic
- - Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.