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- Initial - a. - Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
- Initial - a. - Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
- Initial - n. - The first letter of a word or a name.
- Initial - v. t. - To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
- Initialed - imp. & p. p. - of Initial
- Initialing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Initial
- Initially - adv. - In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.
- Rubric - n. - A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.
- Differentiation - n. - The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
- Augment - n. - A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
- Initial - a. - Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
- Initial - v. t. - To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
- Asper - n. - The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.
- Acrophony - n. - The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
- Glide - n. - A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
- Elison - n. - The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
- Initial - a. - Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
- Thorn - n. - The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
- Symbol - n. - An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
- Penny - n. - An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
- Embryonal - a. - Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
- Ae - - A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.
- Chancre - n. - A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
- Complaint - n. - A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
- Initially - adv. - In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.
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- H4257 מַחֲלַת - 4257 מַחֲלַת - מַחֲלַת - - machălath - makh-al-ath' - from חָלָה; sickness; 'Machalath', probably the title (initial word) of a popular song; Mahalath. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G4747 στοιχεῖον - 4747 στοιχεῖον - ΣΤΟΙΧΕῖΟΝ - - stoicheîon - stoy-khi'-on - neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of στοιχέω; something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively):--element, principle, rudiment. - Noun Neuter - greek