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Astride: Definition and part of speech

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Astride

  1. adv. With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astrolabe: Definition and part of speech

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Astrolabe

  1. n. A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere.
  2. n. An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astringe: Definition and part of speech

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Astringe

  1. v. t. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
  2. v. t. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astringency: Definition and part of speech

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Astringency

  1. n. The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astringent: Definition and part of speech

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Astringent

  1. n. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
  2. a. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; — opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
  3. a. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.