<B>atamasco lily,</B> or <B>atamasco, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a plant with a single pink or white, lilylike flower. It belongs to the amaryllis family and is native to the southeastern United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>any plant of the same genus. </DL>
<A NAME="ataractic">
<B>ataractic, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any drug that relaxes the muscles and relieves excitement. <BR> <I>Ex. Ataractics ... calm upset people without causing mental depression (Walter Modell).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> that soothes or relaxes the body or mind. <BR> <I>Ex. ataractic medicines.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ataraxia">
<B>ataraxia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) calmness of mind or emotions; tranquillity. </DL>
<B>ataunt, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a fully rigged state; with all sails set. </DL>
<A NAME="atavic">
<B>atavic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a remote ancestor or ancestors. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=atavistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="atavism">
<B>atavism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Biology.) the reappearance in an animal or plant of characteristics of a remote ancestor not found in its immediate ancestors, generally the result of a recombination of genes. <DD><B> 2. </B>reversion to a primitive type. <DD><B> 3. </B>resemblance to a remote ancestor. </DL>
<A NAME="atavist">
<B>atavist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an animal or plant exhibiting atavism. </DL>
<A NAME="atavistic">
<B>atavistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with atavism. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a tendency to atavism. <DD><B> 3. </B>characterized by atavism. <BR> <I>Ex. It is evident that all animals are ultimately from one primal source. The appearance in the embryo of atavistic survivals and the fact that the process of embryological development is fundamentally the same in all animals further confirm this conclusion (Beals and Hoijer).</I> adv. <B>atavistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ataxia">
<B>ataxia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>loss of normal coordination, especially inability to coordinate voluntary movements of the muscles. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=locomotor ataxia.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ataxic">
<B>ataxic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> characterized by or affected with ataxia. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who has ataxia. </DL>
<A NAME="ataxite">
<B>ataxite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a composite volcanic rock in which fragments from more than one lava are mixed irregularly. </DL>
<A NAME="ataxy">
<B>ataxy, </B>noun. =ataxia.</DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>ate</B> (1), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> past tense of <B>eat.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Father ate his dinner an hour ago.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>ate</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> infatuation or mad impulse, sometimes personified, as in Greek drama. </DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>Ate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the goddess of recklessness and mischief, who incited men to rash deeds, later regarded as the goddess of punishment or revenge. </DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>-ate</B> (1),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming adjectives, verbs, and nouns,) <DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Collegiate = having to do with college.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having; containing ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Compassionate = having compassion.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having the form of ______; like ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Stellate = having the form of a star.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>become ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Maturate = become mature.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>cause to be ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Alienate = cause to be alien.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>produce ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Ulcerate = produce ulcers.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>supply or treat with ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Aerate = treat with air.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>combine with ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Oxygenate = combine with oxygen.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>-ate</B> (2),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns.) salt made from ______ic acid. <BR> <I>Ex. Sulfate = salt made from sulfuric acid.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ate">
<B>-ate</B> (3),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns.) office, rule, or condition of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Caliphate = rule of a caliph.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atebrin">
<B>atebrin, </B>noun. =Atabrine.</DL>
<A NAME="atechnic">
<B>atechnic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> without technical knowledge. <DD><I>noun </I> a person without technical knowledge. </DL>
<A NAME="atelectasis">
<B>atelectasis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a collapse of the lungs. <DD><B> 2. </B>incomplete expansion of the lungs at birth. </DL>
<A NAME="atelier">
<B>atelier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a workshop, especially of an artist or craftsman; studio. <BR> <I>Ex. Cole Porter ... recalls a visit he and Martin paid to the atelier where the costumes for "Can-Can," a period piece, were being made (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atempo">
<B>a tempo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) in time; returning to the former speed. </DL>
<A NAME="aten">
<B>Aten, </B>noun. =Aton.</DL>
<A NAME="atent">
<B>A tent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tent with sides sloping downwards from a ridgepole. <BR> <I>Ex. A ragged A tent sagged away from the prevailing wind (Elizabeth Robins).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atergo">
<B>a tergo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) from behind. </DL>
<A NAME="aterre">
<B>a terre,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) on the ground. <BR> <I>Ex. In the idiom closest to traditional ballet ... the men have no visible problems with turns, either en l'air or a terre (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atewaza">
<B>atewaza, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a technique in judo of using tricks of beating or kicking that will paralyze, injure, or kill an opponent. </DL>
<A NAME="athabascan">
<B>Athabascan</B> or <B>Athabaskan, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>Athapascan. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of a tribe of North American Indians living near Lake Athabasca, in western Canada. <DD><I>adj. </I> of the Athabascan Indians or the Athapascan family of Indian languages. </DL>
<B>Athanasian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Athanasius, his doctrines, or his defense of the consubstantiality of Jesus with God the Father against the Arians. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who maintains the doctrines of Athanasius. </DL>
<A NAME="athanasiancreed">
<B>Athanasian Creed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Christian creed or profession of faith of unknown authorship and probably composed around A.D. 430. It is one of the three creeds (with the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed). </DL>
<A NAME="athanasy">
<B>athanasy, </B>noun. =athanasia.</DL>
<A NAME="athanor">
<B>athanor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a towerlike furnace used by alchemists, in which fuel was gravity-fed to provide a continuous source of heat. </DL>
<A NAME="athapascan">
<B>Athapascan</B> or <B>Athapaskan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or denoting a North American language family extending from Alaska and Canada to Mexico, and including the Apache and Navaho. <DD><I>noun </I> an Indian of this stock. </DL>
<A NAME="atheism">
<B>atheism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the belief that there is no God. <DD><B> 2. </B>neglect of the service of God; godlessness. <BR> <I>Ex. Hypocrisy in one age is generally succeeded by atheism in another (Joseph Addison).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atheist">
<B>atheist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who believes that there is no God. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who ignores his duty to God; a godless person. </DL>
<B>athel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, grayish, evergreen tamarisk, native to Asia, widely planted in desert areas, such as the southwestern United States, as a windbreak. </DL>
<A NAME="atheling">
<B>atheling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Anglo-Saxon noble or prince, especially a crown prince. </DL>
<A NAME="athematic">
<B>athematic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) having no thematic structure. <BR> <I>Ex. There are ... in spite of the "athematic" conception, some well-defined and recognizable melodic and rhythmic shapes (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="athena">
<B>Athena, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the goddess of wisdom, arts, industries, and prudent warfare. She was one of the chief divinities of Olympus, and was said to have sprung from the forehead of Zeus. She was often called <I>Pallas,</I> or <I>Pallas Athena.</I> The Romans called her Minerva. </DL>
<A NAME="athenaeum">
<B>athenaeum</B> or <B>atheneum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a scientific or literary club. <DD><B> 2. </B>a reading room; library. </DL>
<A NAME="athenaeum">
<B>Athenaeum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the temple of Athena at Athens. Poets and learned men gathered there. <DD><B> 2. </B>a school where law, philosophy, grammar, and various other subjects, were taught and where poets and men of letters gathered for discussion, founded at Rome by the emperor Hadrian. </DL>
<A NAME="athene">
<B>Athene, </B>noun. =Athena.</DL>
<A NAME="athenian">
<B>Athenian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of Athens (especially ancient Athens in Greece) or its people. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person having the right of citizenship in ancient Athens. <DD><B> 2. </B>a native or inhabitant of Athens. </DL>
<A NAME="athermancy">
<B>athermancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> athermanous quality or condition. </DL>
<A NAME="athermanous">
<B>athermanous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not permitting the passage of radiant heat. </DL>
<A NAME="atherogenesis">
<B>atherogenesis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> formation or development of atheroma. </DL>
<A NAME="atherogenic">
<B>atherogenic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> forming or developing atheroma. <BR> <I>Ex. an atherogenic diet of high cholesterol content.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="atheroma">
<B>atheroma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas,</B> <B>-mata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>fatty degeneration of the inner walls of the arteries. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fatty deposit clogging an artery. </DL>
