1844 Addenda to Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL)

1844 Addenda to Noah Webster's American Dictionary ofthe English Language (ADEL) B; Cynthia L. Hallen DallinJ. Bailey Brigham Young University elow are selected entries from the Addenda to the 1844 edi- ^tion of Noah Webster's American Dictionary ofthe English Language (ADEL), published by the Adams Brothers, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1844 edition is a reprint ofWebster's 1841 edition of the ADEL, with a revised Addenda section. Although the body of the 1844 reprint is identical to the 1841 edition, the 1844 Addenda contains entries that Webster himself worked on before his death in 1843. This Dictionaries selection contains the entries unique to the 1844 Addenda as well as 1841 Addenda entries that Webster augmented, collated, deleted, revised, or shortened, with the assistance of his son-in-law Chauncey Goodrich, husband ofJulia Frances Webster. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by Wm. W. Ellsworth and Henry White, Executors of Noah Webster, deceased, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Connecticut. ADDENDA. A. A-BAT-TOIR', n. [Fr.] A building for the slaughtering of cattle. A-BER'DE-VINE, n. The European siskin; the Carduelis spinus, a small green and yellow finch. Dictionaries:Journal oftheDictionary Society ofNorth America 30 (2009), 22-94 24Cynthia L. Hallen and Dallin J. Bailey A-CAL-E'PHAN, or AC-A-LE'PHE, n. [Gr. a?a??f?, a nettle.] The class of marine animals comprehending the sea-nettle, jelly-fish, medusas, &c. They are radiate and invertebrate, and have the property, when touched, of irritating the skin. A-CAN'THO-PODE, n. [Gr. ??a????, a spine, and p???, foot.] A spinefooted insect, clavicorn and coleopterous. A-CEPH'A-LA, n. [plur. Gr. a??fa???.] A class of molluscous animals, comprehending those which have no head; as the oyster and muscle. Bell. A-CEPH'A-LOUS, a. 1 . In botany, applied to ovaries, the style of which springs from their base, instead of their apex. 2.In anatomy, applied to a fetus having no head. AC-E-TIM'E-TRY, n. The act of ascertaining the strength of the acetic acid or vinegar. Ure. ACE-TONE, n. A new chimical name for the pyro-acetic acid. Ure. ACH-RO'MA-TISM, n. [Gr. a priv. and ???µa, color.] L[1844] The destruction ofthe primary colors, which accompany the image of an object seen through a prism or lens. Brande. 2. [1841] The state of being achromatic. Brewster. A-COL'O-GY, n. [Gr. a??? and ?????.] The doctrine of remedies, or the materia medica. A-CRTTA, or A-CRTTES, n. The lowest division of animals in which there is no distinct discernible nervous system, and no separate alimentary canal, as the sponges, polypus, &c. AC-RO-PO'DI-UM, n. [Gr. ????? and p???.] In zoology, the upper surface of the whole foot. Brande. AC-U-PUNC-TUR-A'TION, n. [See ACUPUNCTURE] ?-DACTYLE, n. [Gr. a, priv. and d??t????, a digit.] In zoology, a locomotive extremity without digits. Brande. A-DI-APH'OR-ITES, n. [See ADIAPHORISTS. ] ADJECTIVE-COLOR, n. [Adjective color.] A color which requires to be fixed by some base or mordant, to give it permanence. AE'O-LUS, n. [???-LUS.] The god of the winds. AE-O'LI-AN, a. [iE-O'LI-AN] Pertaining to Aolus. A-ER-O-DY-NAM'ICS, n. [Gr. a?? and d??aµ??.] The science which treats of the motion of the air, and of the mechanical effects of air in motion. Brande. A'ER-O-PHYTE, n. [Gr. a?? and f?t??, a plant.] A plant that lives exclusively in air, in distinction from a hydrophyte. 1844 Addenda to ADEL25 AES-THET'ICS, or ES-THET'ICS, ?. [íES-THET'ICS; Gr. a?s??t????] In the fine arts, that science which derives the first principles in all arts from the effect which certain combinations have on the mind, as connected with nature and right reason. It is intimately related to sentiment . Brande. AES-TI-VA'TION, n. [iES-TI-VA'TION. See ESTIVATION.] A-E-THE-OG'A-MOUS, a. [Gr. a????, unusual, and ??µ??, marriage.] A word intended to express the unusual mode of propagation among the cryptogamic plants, on...