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Athetosis
n.
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A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.
Athink
v. t.
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To repent; to displease; to disgust.
Athirst
a.
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Wanting drink; thirsty.
Athirst
a.
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Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.
Athlete
n.
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One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
Athlete
n.
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Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
Athlete
n.
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One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.
Athletic
a.
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Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
Athletic
a.
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Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.
Athleticism
n.
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The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
Athletics
n.
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The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Athletism
n.
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The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
Athwart
prep.
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Across; from side to side of.
Athwart
prep.
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Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
Athwart
adv.
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Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
Athwart
adv.
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Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
Atilt
adv.
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In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust.
Atilt
adv.
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In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]
Atimy
n.
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Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.
-ation
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A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.
A-tiptoe
adv.
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On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
Atlanta
n.
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A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
Atlantal
a.
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Relating to the atlas.
Atlantal
a.
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Anterior; cephalic.
Atlantean
a.
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Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
Atlantean
a.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
Atlantes
n. pl.
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Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
Atlantic
a.
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Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
Atlantic
a.
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Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
Atlantic
a.
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Descended from Atlas.