Noting a single individual, but less emphatic than one; the indefinite article, put before nouns or adjs. in the sing. beginning with a vowel or the sound of a vowel- as, an egg, an honourable man.
It was an all- day matter. in "".
It was an all- day matter.
The lady saw an opening and went in. Alexander Irvine in "My Lady of the Chimney Corner".
The lady saw an opening and went in.
The Hebrews had been feared when he was an infant. G. A. Chadwick in "The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus".
The Hebrews had been feared when he was an infant.
You'll be an artist? Payne Erskine in "The Eye of Dread".
You'll be an artist?
In bot., the body borne by the placenta of a plant which gradually changes into a seed; the seed contained in the ovary. ...