Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.

The knot.

To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

of Overgo

The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.

Same as Premorse.

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

of Stretch

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

of Overgo

To raise, or put, a nap on.

See Premolar.

Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

To travel over.

To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

See Premaxilla.

Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.

The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

Sequestration; separation.

To cover with viscid matter.

A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3.

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.