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Pinacoid
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a plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
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sebesten
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The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
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attrition
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The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
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cholagogue
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Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
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engender
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To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
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oppilative
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Obstructive.
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Opiparous
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sumptuous.
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marcidity
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The state or quality of being withered or lean.
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Camously
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awry.
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gavelock
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A spear or dart.
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Amontillado
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a dry kind of cherry, of a light color.
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Punicial
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of a bright red or purple color.
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subduplicate
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Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios.
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euplastic
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Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person.
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megalocyte
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A large, flattened red blood cell corpuscle having no nucleus, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anæmia.
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trenchmore
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A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
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Phalanstery
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an association or community organized on the plan of fourier. see fourierism.
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Eupatorium
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a genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.
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Imbricated
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bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
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oleraceous
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Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent.
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pycnogonida
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A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.
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Dentelli
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modillions.
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tripudiate
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To dance.
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Erostrate
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without a beak.
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lherzolite
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An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
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wrymouth
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Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.
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melanure
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A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).
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asperate
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To make rough or uneven.
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mantology
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The act or art of divination.
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Submonish
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to suggest; to prompt.
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Synteresis
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prophylaxis.
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februation
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Purification; a sacrifice.
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husbandly
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Frugal; thrifty.
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metaplasm
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A change in the letters or syllables of a word.
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Sunsquall
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any large jellyfish.
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uintatherium
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An extinct genus of large Eocene ungulates allied to Dinoceras. This name is sometimes used for nearly all the known species of the group. See Dinoceras.
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unordinate
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Disorderly; irregular; inordinate.
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Conarium
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the pineal gland.
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scarious
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Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
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Formidolose
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very much afraid.
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Prunella
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angina, or angina pectoris.
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Suretyship
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cautionry
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eglomerate
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To unwind, as a thread from a ball.
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procambium
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The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.
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Quodlibetical
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not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.
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Cicurate
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to tame.
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Phanerite
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evident; visible.
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exorbitate
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To go out of the track; to deviate.
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acinaceous
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Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
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Furacity
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addictedness to theft; thievishness.
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bowsprit
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A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
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Bezonian
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a low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
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theopathy
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Capacity for religious affections or worship.
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eucairite
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A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.
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electrine
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Belonging to, or made of, amber.
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tapinage
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A lurking or skulking.
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speiskobalt
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Smaltite.
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leptocercous
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Having a long slender tail.
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True-penny
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an honest fellow.
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Exhibitioner
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one who has a pension or allowance granted for support.
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Ablaqueate
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to lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
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Hamulose
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bearing a small hook at the end.
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Exhibitioner
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one who has a pension or allowance granted for support.
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Ablaqueate
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to lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
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Hamulose
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bearing a small hook at the end.
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pratique
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Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
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allantoid
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A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
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graining
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A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dobule, and dace.
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Paralogize
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to reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises.
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Enterobius
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a genus of nematode worms.
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Chemosis
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inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea.
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coarctation
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Confinement to a narrow space.
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lucubrate
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To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.
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Dermacentor
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a genus comprising vectors of important diseases of man and animals.
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Top-draining
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the act or practice of drining the surface of land.
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Cornicular
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a secretary or clerk.
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Mineralogy.
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oryctognosy
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fulminate
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To cause to explode.
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Catallactics
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the science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.
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Asteriscus
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the smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.
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cancelier
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To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.
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tarsorrhaphy
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An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.
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wapinschaw
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An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
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nitrobacter
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A genus of rod-shaped soil bacteria.
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pterygopodium
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A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.
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abovesaid
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Mentioned or recited before.
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scaphander
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The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
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colliquament
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The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
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trumpery
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Worthless or deceptive in character.
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camarilla
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The private audience chamber of a king.
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Hebetation
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the act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
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Hogscore
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a distance line drawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
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speculatory
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Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.
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jarosite
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An ocher-yellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.
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typhlitis
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Inflammation of the cæcum.
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apostille
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A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation.
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crinigerous
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Bearing hair; hairy.
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supparasitation
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The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
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Facundious
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eloquement; full of words.
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Poculent
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fit for drink.
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disceptator
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One who arbitrates or decides.
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antistrophon
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An argument retorted on an opponent.
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Muckender
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handkerchief.
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triphane
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Spodumene.
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reconvention
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A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
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Waybread
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the common dooryard plantain (plantago major).
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Reserate
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to unlock; to open.
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Foryelde
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to repay; to requite.
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pileworm
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The teredo.
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lippitude
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Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.
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coincide
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To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
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ultramarine
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A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
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Introvenient
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coming in together; entering; commingling.
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metacism
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A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
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aleurone
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An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (“protein granules”) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
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synallaxine
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Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
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anaglyph
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Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
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Chopchurch
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an exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
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Squaterole
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the black-bellied plover.
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Runcation
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a weeding
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apophthegm
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A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.
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Bombycinous
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silken; made of silk.
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doggedness
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Sullenness; moroseness.
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apodictically
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So as to be evident beyond contradiction.
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jaggedness
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something irregular like a bump on or crack in a smooth surface.
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subulated
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Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
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erinaceidae
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a natural family including the true hedgehogs.
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distribute
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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
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microcline
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A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.
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thaumaturgus
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a miracle worker; -- a title given by the roman catholics to some saints.
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Scomfish
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to suffocate or stifle; to smother.
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pineweed
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A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
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Bumblepuppy
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the old game of nineholes.
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Philomene
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the nightingale.
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insecution
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A following after; close pursuit.
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Armozine
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a thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
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Tremella
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a genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.
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peristerite
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A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.
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reticule
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A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.
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tracheocele
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Goiter.
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schizognathous
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Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
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cataplasm
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A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice.
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ullmannite
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A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.
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Vessignon
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a soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
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sprechery
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Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.
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Larvated
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masked; clothed as with a mask.
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black belt
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a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot.
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anodonta
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a genus of thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
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isatropic
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine, and isomeric with cinnamic acid.
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Paludose
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growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
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egremoin
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Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria).
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salebrosity
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Roughness or ruggedness.
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delicate
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Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
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Unawares
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without design or preparation; suddenly; without premeditation, unexpectedly.
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Procrusteanize
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to stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
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threpsology
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The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
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Penuriousness.
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chincherie
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alder-liefest
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Most beloved.
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Plangent
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beating; dashing, as a wave.
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Pastinaca
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a genus comprising the parsnips.
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Plangent
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beating; dashing, as a wave.
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aceldama
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The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.
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Nidering
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infamous; dastardly.
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anamorphism
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A distorted image.
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Subsultory
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bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
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High-hoe
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the european green woodpecker or yaffle.
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Solleret
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a flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediæval armor.
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Melanian
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one of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
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anteposition
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The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
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latibulize
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To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.
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Humbuggery
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the practice of imposition.
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Epicedial
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elegiac; funereal.
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Macilent
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lean; thin.
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longanimity
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Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
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exortive
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Rising; relating to the east.
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banstickle
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A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
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cockamaroo
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The Russian variety of bagatelle.
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impetrate
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To obtain by request or entreaty.
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Stromatic
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miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
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Skunkball
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the surf duck.
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leptology
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A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
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annotine
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A bird one year old, or that has once molted.
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Fidicinal
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of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
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entranced
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filled with wonder and delight.
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in and in
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Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
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exhaustion
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The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
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witenagemote
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A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.
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insectation
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The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution.
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amentiferous
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Bearing catkins.
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demythologization
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the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms.
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exsolution
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Relaxation.
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Manitrunk
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the anterior segment of the thorax in insects. see insect.
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hisingerite
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A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
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chalybeate
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Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
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downthrow
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The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
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Deprehension
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a catching; discovery.
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vulpinite
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A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
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symposium
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A drinking together; a merry feast.
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cumulose
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Full of heaps.
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roughings
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Rowen.
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convolute
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Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.
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anaplerotic
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Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
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accentor
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One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
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hypostatize
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To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
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oppletion
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The act of filling up, or the state of being filled up; fullness.
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Coprophagan
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a kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
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efferous
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Like a wild beast; fierce.
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snakehead
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A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
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trochoid
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Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
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tetrahedrite
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A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.
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brandenburg
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A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.
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Irritate
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to render null and void.
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merchandiser
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A trader.
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Comessation
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a reveling; a rioting.
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posology
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The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.
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stereobate
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The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.
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Esurient
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one who is hungry or greedy.
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Actinost
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one of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
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allerion
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Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
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protactic
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Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
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Involucre
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a whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
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hagioscope
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An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.
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chouicha
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The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
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Barranca
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a ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.
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pseudology
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Falsehood of speech.
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Diriment
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absolute.
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resurrect
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To take from the grave; to disinter.
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Indagate
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to seek or search out.
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Neurospast
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a puppet.
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facundious
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Eloquement; full of words.
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Chiragrical
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having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
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epinicion
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A song of triumph.
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exhibitioner
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One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.
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freakish
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Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
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Eikonogen
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the sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, c10h5(oh)(nh2)so3na used as a developer.
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jangling
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Idle babbling; vain disputation.
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Suffragan
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an assistant.
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practico
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A guide.
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Fruticulose
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like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
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centrarchid
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any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
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fardingdeal
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The fourth part of an acre of land.
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marmatite
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A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.
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commonplace
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An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
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Delitescent
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lying hid; concealed.
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antiptosis
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The putting of one case for another.
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chelidon
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The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
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antiptosis
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The putting of one case for another.
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chelidon
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The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
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Merulidan
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a bird of the thrush family.
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arthropomata
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One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda.
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reorient
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Rising again.
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acanthus
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A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
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disinure
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To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.
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quintole
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A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
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Pulvinar
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a prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
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adjusted
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accommodated to certain requirements
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Investigable
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unsearchable; inscrutable.
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Indagate
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to seek or search out.
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Infantry
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a body of children.
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Autostylic
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having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the amphibia.
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crazedness
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A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
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emphyteusis
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A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.
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Rounceval
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a giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat.
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Eggement
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instigation; incitement.
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Broadcast
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to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely
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incicurable
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Untamable.
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callophis
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a genus of Asian coral snakes.
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plagiary
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Kidnaping.
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subluxation
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an incomplete or partial dislocation.
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Lucrific
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producing profit; gainful.
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Migniardise
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delicate fondling.
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cirsocele
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The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
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venantes
|
The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
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phlogopite
|
A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.
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basicerite
|
The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.
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Agrostography
|
a description of the grasses.
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grindlet
|
A small drain.
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Heartsome
|
merry; cheerful; lively.
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Crossjack
|
the lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
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Accosted
|
supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
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measelry
|
Leprosy.
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Procrusteanize
|
to stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
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decertation
|
Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
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halter-sack
|
A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
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Assapanic
|
the american flying squirrel (pteromys volucella).
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grimaced
|
Distorted; crabbed.
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Antanagoge
|
a figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
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Pederero
|
a term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.
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cromorna
|
a certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
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querimony
|
A complaint or complaining.
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immarcescible
|
Unfading; lasting.
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Profligate
|
overthrown; beaten; conquered.
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transgress
|
To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
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quinovic
|
Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
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Latitudinarian
|
not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
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incomprehensible
|
Not capable of being contained within limits.
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neoterize
|
To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.
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carbamic
|
Pertaining to an acid so called.
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Shanghai
|
a large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
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Trochilic
|
of or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.
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vambrace
|
The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
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traverse
|
To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
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semidouble
|
Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.
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Merrythought
|
the forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. see furculum.
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Supercrescent
|
growing on some other growing thing.
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bloodulf
|
The European bullfinch.
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dactyliology
|
That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving.
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Gobbetly
|
in pieces.
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Vindicate
|
to lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
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oryzopsis
|
A genus of grasses incluiding rice grass.
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viticulose
|
Having long and slender trailing stems.
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hamulose
|
Bearing a small hook at the end.
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oppilate
|
To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.
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Genethliatic
|
one who calculates nativities.
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transiliency
|
A leap across or from one thing to another.
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paritory
|
Pellitory.
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salmagundi
|
A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
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statuminate
|
To prop or support.
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anthropophuism
|
Human nature.
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cynanche
|
Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
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|
Chorometry
|
the art of surveying a region or district.
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tractitious
|
Treating of; handling.
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Secundate
|
to make prosperous.
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Accismus
|
affected refusal; coyness.
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Poor-john
|
a small european fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.
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gauffering
|
A mode of plaiting or fluting.
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phalanstery
|
An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
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Garganey
|
a small european duck (anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
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epistilbite
|
A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
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ascophyllum
|
a genus of brown algae distinguished by compressed or inflated branchlets along the axis.
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indifferent
|
Not making a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
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Do-nothingness
|
inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
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umquhile
|
Some time ago; formerly.
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|
bargecourse
|
A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.
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woodness
|
Anger; madness; insanity; rage.
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Propugnation
|
means of defense; defense.
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Shiver-spar
|
a variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
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preciosity
|
Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century.
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Platetrope
|
one of a pair of a paired organs.
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sinapism
|
A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.
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|
lardacein
|
A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.
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|
ceratopteris
|
a genus of water ferns.
|
|
Wait-a-bit
|
any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing,
|
|
Barbiton
|
an ancient greek instrument resembling a lyre.
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underground
|
Beneath the surface of the earth.
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|
alienate
|
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
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Oryctognosy
|
mineralogy.
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anthemwise
|
Alternately.
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prolonge
|
A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
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|
Antibacchius
|
a foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).
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Insession
|
the act of sitting, as in a tub or bath.
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Semidiapason
|
an imperfect octave.
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pernancy
|
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
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Traducible
|
capable of being derived or propagated.
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|
Complicant
|
overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.
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Coruscate
|
to glitter in flashes; to flash.
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dejecture
|
That which is voided; excrements.
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zopilote
|
The urubu, or American black vulture.
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Obturate
|
to stop or close, as an opening;
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Apparaillyng
|
preparation.
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combinate
|
United; joined; betrothed.
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Platanist
|
the soosoo.
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Thalassian
|
any sea tortoise.
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|
Calcarated
|
having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
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imbecilitate
|
To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
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sciotheric
|
Of or pertaining to a sundial.
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chrysophrys
|
a genus of fishes consisting of the australian snapper.
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|
Cimeliarch
|
a superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
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|
Peirastic
|
fitted for trial or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.
|
|
chrysosplenium
|
a genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers.
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glomuliferous
|
Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
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Cassinette
|
a cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
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epistome
|
The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea.
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litherly
|
Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
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sharpling
|
A stickleback.
|
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appanage
|
The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
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Clupeoid
|
of or pertaining to the herring family.
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capercally
|
A species of black Old World grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods and horse of the wood.
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Grangerite
|
one who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.
|
|
Spheniscan
|
any species of penguin.
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flocculate
|
Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
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vouchsafe
|
To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
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allochroic
|
Changeable in color.
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ephialtes
|
The nightmare.
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Severality
|
each particular taken singly; distinction.
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|
promenade
|
A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
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|
Mutchkin
|
a liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint.
|
|
gosainthan
|
A mountain in Tibet, 26,287 feet high.
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foryelde
|
To repay; to requite.
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Ingravidate
|
to impregnate.
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|
Exoptable
|
very desirable.
|
|
arisarum
|
a genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.
|
|
acrophony
|
The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
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|
Saxicolous
|
growing on rocks.
|
|
knobstick
|
One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.
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|
glauconite
|
The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.
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accustom
|
To be wont.
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Pleonaste
|
a black variety of spinel.
|
|
Licitation
|
the act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.
|
|
Harridan
|
a worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
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|
Ichthidin
|
a substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.
|
|
Sybaritism
|
luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
|
|
orismology
|
That department of natural history which treats of technical terms; the science of defining technical terms.
|
|
Psaltery
|
a stringed instrument of music used by the hebrews, the form of which is not known.
|
|
cacochymical
|
Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
|
|
palinurus
|
An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
|
|
frostweed
|
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
|
|
carbazol
|
A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
|
|
stridulous
|
Making a shrill, creaking sound.
|
|
canister
|
A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
|
|
adeption
|
An obtaining; attainment.
|
|
Muticous
|
without a point or pointed process; blunt.
|
|
Abreuvoir
|
the joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
|
|
Hyemation
|
the passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
|
|
Exortive
|
rising; relating to the east.
|
|
rigolette
|
A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.
|
|
maculature
|
Blotting paper.
|
|
Cockamaroo
|
the russian variety of bagatelle.
|
|
Saccharilla
|
a kind of muslin.
|
|
ambulatory
|
A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
|
|
jarosite
|
An ocher-yellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.
|
|
ulodendron
|
A genus of fossil trees.
|
|
verriculate
|
Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
|
|
transumptive
|
Taking from one to another; metaphorical.
|
|
Famulate
|
to serve.
|
|
medicine
|
The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
|
|
profligate
|
To drive away; to overcome.
|
|
sitheman
|
A mower.
|
|
conclude
|
To shut up; to inclose.
|
|
Tambreet
|
the duck mole.
|
|
carucate
|
A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
|
|
geocronite
|
A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.
|
|
Opisthotic
|
the inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.
|
|
indifferent
|
To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.
|
|
radicular
|
Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.
|
|
Dimication
|
a fight; contest.
|
|
Originary
|
causing existence; productive.
|
|
Dimication
|
a fight; contest.
|
|
Originary
|
causing existence; productive.
|
|
Fettling
|
a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
|
|
Traiteur
|
the keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
|
|
Hebdomadary
|
consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.
|
|
synclastic
|
Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.
|
|
tennantite
|
A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
|
|
galliwasp
|
A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.
|
|
Margaritaceous
|
pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
|
|
Archipterygium
|
the primitive form of fin, like that of ceratodus.
|
|
scathful
|
Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.
|
|
clerihew
|
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.
|
|
Peduncle
|
the stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
|
|
Platanist
|
the soosoo.
|
|
Leniment
|
an assuasive.
|
|
consound
|
A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.
|
|
Swoopstake
|
altogether; indiscriminately.
|
|
Mulierose
|
fond of woman.
|
|
pyromalic
|
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called maleic acid.
|
|
pullicate
|
A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
|
|
saxicoline
|
Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.
|
|
tachylyte
|
A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
|
|
anthology
|
A discourse on flowers.
|
|
Prestable
|
payable.
|
|
hallucinate
|
To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
|
|
hallucinate
|
To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
|
|
hallucinate
|
To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
|
|
Tintamar
|
a hideous or confused noise; an uproar.
|
|
cachunde
|
A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
|
|
agonistical
|
Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
|
|
numenius
|
A genus of birds comprising certain of the curlews.
|
|
potestative
|
Authoritative.
|
|
suffrutescent
|
Slightly woody at the base.
|
|
brookweed
|
A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
|
|
Tethydan
|
a tunicate.
|
|
brabbler
|
A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
|
|
polygala
|
A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
|
|
phosphene
|
A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image.
|
|
induplicate
|
Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation.
|
|
aristarchy
|
Severely criticism.
|
|
Favoredness
|
appearance.
|
|
stilbite
|
A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.
|
|
Tentiginous
|
stiff; stretched; strained.
|
|
goosewing
|
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
|
|
Capitule
|
a summary.
|
|
Incensant
|
a modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.
|
|
Ametabolian
|
of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.
|
|
undistinctive
|
Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.
|
|
cacomixl
|
A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.
|
|
Pucelage
|
virginity.
|
|
Frumenty
|
food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
|
|
Gauffering
|
a mode of plaiting or fluting.
|
|
mossbunker
|
The menhaded.
|
|
prolonge
|
A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
|
|
Venatical
|
of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
|
|
Antiloquist
|
a contradicter.
|
|
misaffected
|
Ill disposed.
|
|
resolutive
|
Serving to dissolve or relax.
|
|
Epithumetical
|
pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.
|
|
radiolite
|
A hippurite.
|
|
couching
|
The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
|
|
cullionly
|
Mean; base.
|
|
epicaridan
|
An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.
|
|
famulist
|
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
|
|
Tabescent
|
withering, or wasting away.
|
|
pedarian
|
One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.
|
|
sanguinary
|
The yarrow.
|
|
pregnantly
|
Unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.
|
|
reserate
|
To unlock; to open.
|
|
Apple-squire
|
a pimp; a kept gallant.
|
|
Hottentotism
|
a term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
|
|
Stonecray
|
a distemper in hawks.
|
|
Rhetoricate
|
to play the orator.
|
|
Abderian
|
given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
|
|
pseudorhabdite
|
One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
|
|
ingeminate
|
To redouble or repeat; to reiterate.
|
|
gibbsite
|
A hydrate of alumina.
|
|
Clinquant
|
tinsel; dutch gold.
|
|
Nerfling
|
the id.
|
|
Spagyrical
|
chemical; alchemical.
|
|
bheestie
|
A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.
|
|
Pancratium
|
an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
|
|
impassible
|
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation.
|
|
bombycinous
|
Silken; made of silk.
|
|
evacuate
|
To let blood
|
|
pragmatic
|
One skilled in affairs.
|
|
Petitionarily
|
by way of begging the question; by an assumption.
|
|
imbrication
|
An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
|
|
mutilate
|
A cetacean, or a sirenian.
|
|
importune
|
To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
|
|
Flummery
|
a light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
|
|
Discubitory
|
leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
|
|
Bordereau
|
a note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
|
|
Eteostic
|
a kind of chronogram.
|
|
Shaftment
|
a measure of about six inches.
|
|
Tombester
|
a female dancer.
|
|
Chiliastic
|
millenarian.
|
|
Sarrasine
|
a portcullis, or herse.
|
|
desidious
|
Idle; lazy.
|
|
hottonia
|
A genus of aquatic herbs.
|
|
harderian
|
A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
|
|
Euphotide
|
a rock occurring in the alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.
|
|
Ludicrous
|
adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
|
|
hit-or-miss
|
performed without care or close attention; slipshod; careless; -- of the manner of performing a task. Opposite of careful, conscientious or methodical.
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questuary
|
Studious of profit.
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Cipherhood
|
nothingness.
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Hystricine
|
like or pertaining to the porcupines.
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Coinquinate
|
to pollute.
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assession
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A sitting beside or near.
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Orthodromy
|
the act or art of sailing on a great circle.
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Batardeau
|
a cofferdam.
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bandicoot
|
A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
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polyscope
|
A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass.
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delimitate
|
to determine the essential quality of.
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flamboyer
|
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.
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purposeful
|
Important; material.
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melanterite
|
A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.
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herapathite
|
The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
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Xeraphim
|
an old money of account in bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.
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Liturate
|
having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
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Caprella
|
a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.
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cackling
|
The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
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canderos
|
An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
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chaffery
|
Traffic; bargaining.
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rixation
|
A brawl or quarrel.
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Inkhornism
|
pedantry.
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Muticous
|
without a point or pointed process; blunt.
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spurling
|
A tern.
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Boundedness
|
the quality of being finite.
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Conscionably
|
reasonably; justly.
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Actinotrocha
|
a peculiar larval form of phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.
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amentiferous
|
Bearing catkins.
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coturnix
|
A genus of birds comprising the Old World quail.
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proletaneous
|
Having a numerous offspring.
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cerastes
|
A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.
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cribellum
|
A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
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Backwardly
|
reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
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Repertitious
|
found; gained by finding.
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Occasive
|
of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.
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tennantite
|
A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
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Coticular
|
pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
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Tantamount
|
equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
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sempervive
|
The houseleek.
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engrailment
|
The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.
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hackbolt
|
The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
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Decussatively
|
crosswise; in the form of an x.
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hellanodic
|
A judge or umpire in games or combats.
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portfire
|
A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
|
|
preoccupate
|
To anticipate; to take before.
|
|
Verecund
|
bashful; modest.
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|
Peritomous
|
cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.
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|
Dartrous
|
relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
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|
Singultous
|
relating to, or affected with, hiccough.
|
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amassette
|
An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.
|
|
personal
|
A movable; a chattel.
|
|
devastavit
|
Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
|
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Pompholyx
|
impure zinc oxide.
|
|
saussurite
|
A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.
|
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puppyism
|
Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.
|
|
Debauched
|
dissolute; dissipated.
|
|
hyssopus
|
A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
|
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attorney
|
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
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resentingly
|
With deep sense or strong perception.
|
|
arctisca
|
A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.
|
|
synedral
|
Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.
|
|
Evenhand
|
equality.
|
|
astipulate
|
To assent.
|
|
Cibarious
|
pertaining to food; edible.
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|
Missificate
|
to perform mass.
|
|
pineweed
|
A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
|
|
corselet
|
Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
|
|
transume
|
To change; to convert.
|
|
newmarket
|
A long, closely fitting cloak.
|
|
Biscutella
|
a genus off eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.
|
|
hanselines
|
A sort of breeches.
|
|
Sportulary
|
subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
|
|
protrude
|
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
|
|
allowable
|
Praiseworthy; laudable.
|
|
cholecystis
|
The gall bladder.
|
|
belswagger
|
A lewd man; also, a bully.
|
|
nutation
|
The act of nodding.
|
|
brooklime
|
A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana.
|
|
Amanuensis
|
a person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
|
|
Prothalamium
|
a song in celebration of a marriage.
|
|
Littress
|
a smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.
|
|
Achlamydeous
|
naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.
|
|
muscivora-forficata
|
A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U. S. and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings; the scissortailed flycatcher.
|
|
Crosspatch
|
an ill-natured person.
|
|
salebrous
|
Rough; rugged.
|
|
mattowacca
|
An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
|
|
exsufflation
|
A blast from beneath.
|
|
Sassanage
|
stones left after sifting.
|
|
archimandrite
|
A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.
|
|
variscite
|
An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.
|
|
cassonade
|
Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
|
|
gentianaceae
|
A natural family of chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.
|
|
Antestature
|
a small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.
|
|
Causally
|
the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.
|
|
Inchoate
|
to begin.
|
|
Coulisse
|
a fluting in a sword blade.
|
|
Rat-tail
|
an excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
|
|
Boniform
|
sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
|
|
polypodium
|
A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.
|
|
sternbergite
|
A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.
|
|
Incolumity
|
safety; security.
|
|
monoclinous
|
Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
|
|
Cardiidae
|
a natural family of somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.
|
|
Secundate
|
to make prosperous.
|
|
blazing-star
|
Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
|
|
yoncopin
|
A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).
|
|
dimidiate
|
Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.
|
|
Cachucha
|
an andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.
|
|
Rhonchisonant
|
making a snorting noise; snorting.
|
|
colluctancy
|
A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
|
|
bryology
|
That part of botany which relates to mosses.
|
|
Seldshewn
|
rarely shown or exhibited.
|
|
decomposed
|
Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
|
|
Allogeneous
|
different in nature or kind.
|
|
Siphonoglyphe
|
a gonidium.
|
|
Armozine
|
a thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
|
|
passingly
|
Exceedingly.
|
|
Coddymoddy
|
a gull in the plumage of its first year.
|
|
creasing
|
A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.
|
|
Light-minded
|
unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
|
|
Coinquination
|
defilement.
|
|
Procerity
|
height of stature; tallness.
|
|
trabeculate
|
Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
|
|
antispast
|
A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
|
|
Frumentaceous
|
made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
|
|
precipient
|
Commanding; directing.
|
|
camarasaurus
|
A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.
|
|
cats-paw
|
A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.
|
|
Acrobates
|
a genus of mammals.
|
|
Perstringe
|
to touch; to graze; to glance on.
|
|
heteronomous
|
Subject to the law of another.
|
|
Cunctative
|
slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
|
|
riptowel
|
A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.
|
|
clamjamphrie
|
Low, worthless people; the rabble.
|
|
parashah
|
A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
|
|
Spitchcock
|
an eel split and broiled.
|
|
Arctotis
|
a genus of herbs and subshrubs: african daisy.
|
|
chivaree
|
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.
|
|
agriology
|
Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
|
|
Fistular
|
hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.
|
|
clavellated
|
Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
|
|
demiculverin
|
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
|
|
Frampoid
|
peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.
|
|
Fidejussion
|
the act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
|
|
Litraneter
|
an instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.
|
|
geochelone
|
A genus of giant tortoises.
|
|
gestation
|
The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
|
|
Genethliatic
|
one who calculates nativities.
|
|
Moliminous
|
of great bulk or consequence; very important.
|
|
humectant
|
Diluent.
|
|
requietory
|
A sepulcher.
|
|
erythroxylon
|
A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
|
|
trochoid
|
Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
|
|
Barbotine
|
a paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
|
|
Colophony
|
rosin.
|
|
eremacausis
|
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
|
|
surroyal
|
One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
|
|
whitetop
|
Fiorin.
|
|
Amanuensis
|
a person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
|
|
Insessorial
|
pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.
|
|
commination
|
A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
|
|
misallege
|
To state erroneously.
|
|
Desecate
|
to cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
|
|
Interbastation
|
patchwork.
|
|
maudeline
|
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
|
|
Blowpoint
|
a child's game.
|
|
Ustulate
|
blackened as if burned.
|
|
Rodomontade
|
vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
|
|
illecebration
|
Allurement.
|
|
femalist
|
A gallant.
|
|
overweening
|
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
|
|
toxophilite
|
A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
|
|
correption
|
Chiding; reproof; reproach.
|
|
pseudorhabdite
|
One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
|
|
sarculation
|
A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.
|
|
vesiculata
|
The campanularian medusæ.
|
|
Trucidation
|
the act of killing.
|
|
saxicolous
|
Growing on rocks.
|
|
Deintevous
|
rare; excellent; costly.
|
|
Execrative
|
cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
|
|
evigilation
|
A waking up or awakening.
|
|
Revalescent
|
growing well; recovering strength.
|
|
Stratonic
|
of or pertaining to an army.
|
|
sauseflem
|
Having a red, pimpled face.
|
|
Paralipomenon
|
a title given in the douay bible to the books of chronicles.
|
|
Vallancy
|
a large wig that shades the face.
|
|
tentaculite
|
Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
|
|
arisarum
|
A genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.
|
|
sembling
|
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
|
|
Assurgency
|
act of rising.
|
|
chawdron
|
Entrails.
|
|
crumenal
|
A purse.
|
|
Silverback
|
the knot.
|
|
Sinciput
|
the fore part of the head.
|
|
allantoid
|
A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
|
|
Surseance
|
peace; quiet.
|
|
Sorehead
|
one who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.
|
|
syndyasmian
|
Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
|
|
brachytypous
|
Of a short form.
|
|
roborate
|
To give strength or support to; to confirm.
|
|
gnathonical
|
Flattering; deceitful.
|
|
nazarite
|
A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.
|
|
organoscopy
|
Phrenology.
|
|
aphasmidia
|
One of two subgroups of Nematoda used in some classification systems.
|
|
pandiculation
|
A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
|
|
affabrous
|
Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.
|
|
Bullfice
|
a kind of fungus. see puffball.
|
|
Volatile
|
a winged animal; wild fowl; game.
|
|
peristerion
|
The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).
|
|
Syphering
|
the lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
|
|
atlantes
|
Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
|
|
Novercal
|
of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.
|
|
Trilling
|
one of tree children born at the same birth.
|
|
melanian
|
One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
|
|
potently
|
With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.
|
|
parkeria
|
A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
|
|
Allusive
|
figurative; symbolical.
|
|
homilite
|
A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.
|
|
improperation
|
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.
|
|
Siserary
|
a hard blow.
|
|
comfortable
|
Strong; vigorous; valiant.
|
|
diallage
|
A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
|
|
Beneficiate
|
to reduce (ores).
|
|
Archonts
|
the group including man alone.
|
|
Delassation
|
fatigue.
|
|
rhyolite
|
A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.
|
|
calopogon
|
A genus of terrestrial orchids of North America.
|
|
malcolmia
|
A genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan.
|
|
acharnement
|
Savage fierceness; ferocity.
|
|
Commorant
|
ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
|
|
atacamite
|
An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.
|
|
frustraneous
|
Vain; useless; unprofitable.
|
|
amphibolous
|
Ambiguous; doubtful.
|
|
cacostomia
|
Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.
|
|
prolification
|
The generation of young.
|
|
leucoxene
|
A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
|
|
Exestuate
|
to be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
|
|
hockherb
|
The mallow.
|
|
ariolation
|
A soothsaying; a foretelling.
|
|
flavescent
|
Turning yellow; yellowish.
|
|
perfricate
|
To rub over.
|
|
irremediably
|
In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.
|
|
Petromyzont
|
a lamprey.
|
|
Specialty
|
particularity.
|
|
acroteleutic
|
The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.
|
|
protosomite
|
One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
|
|
Scarious
|
thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
|
|
recollect
|
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
|
|
blubbery
|
Swollen; protuberant.
|
|
underaction
|
Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
|
|
Nostocaceae
|
a natural family of blue-green algae.
|
|
dicacity
|
Pertness; sauciness.
|
|
ratiocination
|
The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
|
|
neckweed
|
An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
|
|
andreaea
|
A genus of brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
|
|
dicacity
|
Pertness; sauciness.
|
|
Purprise
|
a close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.
|
|
brachycatalectic
|
A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
|
|
flibbergib
|
A sycophant.
|
|
Curialistic
|
pertaining to a court.
|
|
Obnoxious
|
subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
|
|
Decussatively
|
crosswise; in the form of an x.
|
|
Inapathy
|
sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.
|
|
meteorism
|
Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.
|
|
oragious
|
Stormy.
|
|
Sinciput
|
the fore part of the head.
|
|
Flavicomous
|
having yellow hair.
|
|
arceuthobium
|
A genus of chiefly American plants parasitic on conifers.
|
|
cyclamen
|
A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
|
|
Embonpoint
|
plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
|
|
ekebergite
|
A variety of scapolite.
|
|
Catagmatic
|
having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
|
|
Tombester
|
a female dancer.
|
|
eutectic
|
Of maximum fusibility; -- said of an alloy or mixture which has the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.
|
|
loggerheads
|
The knapweed.
|
|
euonymus
|
A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.
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bundobust
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System; discipline.
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Loculament
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the cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
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sheep-headed
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Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
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emphractic
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Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.
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felicitousness
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A pleasing and appropriate manner or style, especially of expression.
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Acromion
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the outer extremity of the shoulder blade.
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Assemble
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to liken; to compare.
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metatheria
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A subclass of pouched animals.
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rhabdite
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A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
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zoetrope
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An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
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Suggillation
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a livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.
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Complement
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to supply a lack; to supplement.
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Readdress
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to address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
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Trumpery
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deceit; fraud.
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tanistry
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In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
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snapdragon
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Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
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Ephemeris
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a diary; a journal.
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Suppress
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to overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
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Malcolmia
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a genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the mediterranean to afghanistan.
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meticulous
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Timid; fearful.
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cassiterite
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Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.
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turlupin
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One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.
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Energical
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in a state of action; acting; operating.
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Angusticlave
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a narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.
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oblation
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The act of offering, or of making an offering.
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leucomaine
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An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
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Uppricked
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upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.
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Dopplerite
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a brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
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Parasynaxis
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an unlawful meeting.
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trumpery
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Worthless or deceptive in character.
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Decertation
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contest for mastery; contention; strife.
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Suffraginous
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of or pertaining to the hock of a beast.
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Protomerite
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the second segment of one of the gregarinæ.
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designator
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An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
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acroamatical
|
Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.
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Bunji-bunji
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an australian timber tree (flindersia schottiana) whose bark yields a poison.
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Infucate
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to stain; to paint; to daub.
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Amphibia
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one of the classes of vertebrates.
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Decrepitate
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to crackle, as salt in roasting.
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eloignate
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To remove.
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urinator
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One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
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factorize
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To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.
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Conculcate
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to tread or trample under foot.
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trimerous
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Having the parts in threes.
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abderian
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Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
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Knighthead
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a bollard timber. see under bollard.
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Supercrescent
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growing on some other growing thing.
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tambourine
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A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.
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Selcouth
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rarely known; unusual; strange.
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phocenic
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Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.
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multicarinate
|
Many-keeled.
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crippling
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Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
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halter-sack
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A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
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Inoculate
|
to bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
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wainscot
|
Oaken timber or boarding.
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parfleche
|
A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.
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antrustion
|
A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises
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ampelite
|
An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
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contignation
|
The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
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basilicon
|
An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
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miniature
|
Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
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galactin
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An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.
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villanelle
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A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
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Quiritation
|
a crying for help.
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Xenotime
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a native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
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Temulent
|
intoxicated; drunken.
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anfracture
|
A mazy winding.
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contubernial
|
Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.
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countertime
|
The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
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phacolite
|
A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.
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velleity
|
The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
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fresh-new
|
Unpracticed.
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Thalassian
|
any sea tortoise.
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cerebral
|
One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.
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Whitehead
|
a form of self-propelling torpedo.
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Anastomus
|
openbills.
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foreward
|
The van; the front.
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Ditation
|
the act of making rich; enrichment.
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disservice
|
Injury; mischief.
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watertath
|
A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
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Runghead
|
the upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
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Faburden
|
a species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
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Puerperous
|
bearing children.
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retinalite
|
A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
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horneophyton
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A genus of Devonian fossil plants considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; it is similar to genus Rhynia but smaller.
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platetrope
|
One of a pair of a paired organs.
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Loculous
|
divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
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Apotelesm
|
the result or issue.
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Gaspereau
|
the alewife.
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entertain
|
To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
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dissweeten
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To deprive of sweetness.
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Wrawness
|
peevishness; ill temper; anger.
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Cultrated
|
sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
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encolure
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The neck of horse.
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dispense
|
To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
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libethenite
|
A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.
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Eikonogen
|
the sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, c10h5(oh)(nh2)so3na used as a developer.
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vouchsafe
|
To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
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collitigant
|
Disputing or wrangling.
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antithesis
|
An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, “The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself.” “He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen.”
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Ossifrage
|
the lammergeir.
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Surculate
|
to purne; to trim.
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smegmatic
|
Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.
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hollowly
|
Insincerely; deceitfully.
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Instaurate
|
to renew or renovate.
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Languish
|
to cause to droop or pine.
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Ferrandine
|
a stuff made of silk and wool.
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defecate
|
To become clear, pure, or free.
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epithema
|
A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
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tachhydrite
|
A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
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prosphysis
|
A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.
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prostitute
|
Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
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ecphoneme
|
A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.
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Intervert
|
to turn to another course or use.
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lombardeer
|
A pawnbroker.
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conviciate
|
To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.
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perthite
|
A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.
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liturate
|
Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
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actinolite
|
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
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Barracan
|
a thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the levant.
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Whirlicote
|
an open car or chariot.
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Pulverine
|
ashes of barilla.
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arianrod
|
A goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.
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imposthume
|
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
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Stannary
|
of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.
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scepterellate
|
Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.
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Pernicious
|
quick; swift (to burn).
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Officinal
|
used in a shop, or belonging to it.
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Sarabaite
|
one of certain vagrant or heretical oriental monks in the early church.
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demantoid
|
A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
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Rodomontade
|
to boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
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Libertine
|
a manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
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Anthropopathite
|
one who ascribes human feelings to deity.
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premices
|
First fruits.
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herakline
|
A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.
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exantlate
|
To exhaust or wear out.
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postfurca
|
One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
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colleague
|
To unite or associate with another or with others.
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Psalterium
|
the third stomach of ruminants. see manyplies.
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Ruptuary
|
one not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
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prosopolepsy
|
Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.
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yearnings
|
The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.
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spodumene
|
A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occurring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of alumina and lithia. See Hiddenite.
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liparite
|
A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.
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yearnings
|
The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.
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spodumene
|
A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occurring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of alumina and lithia. See Hiddenite.
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liparite
|
A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.
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implicated
|
Culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.
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Merocele
|
hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia.
|
|
Quodlibetarian
|
one who discusses any subject at pleasure.
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Baignoire
|
a box of the lowest tier in a theater.
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Clubbish
|
rude; clownish.
|
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attorney
|
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
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Parulidae
|
a natural family of new world warblers.
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vadantes
|
An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
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Quartering
|
a station.
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picrolite
|
A fibrous variety of serpentine.
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ribroast
|
To beat soundly.
|
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trisagion
|
An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.
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ithyphallic
|
Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
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Agastache
|
giant hyssop; mexican hyssop.
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overprompt
|
Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate.
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Nuncupative
|
publicly or solemnly declaratory.
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Feoffment
|
the grant of a feud or fee.
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Sightful
|
easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.
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carolitic
|
Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.
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aglaonema
|
A genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
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Abreaction
|
the purging of emotional tensions. see catharsis, below.
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saltimbanco
|
A mountebank; a quack.
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discriminal
|
In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
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oxycrate
|
A Mixture of water and vinegar.
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Proditor
|
a traitor.
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clinquant
|
Tinsel; Dutch gold.
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stunning
|
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
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Intemerated
|
pure; undefiled.
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Jungermanniales
|
a large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.
|
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canistel
|
A tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.
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eumolpus
|
A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.
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pococurantism
|
Carelessness; apathy; indifference.
|
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Paramitome
|
the fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.
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trochite
|
A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
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farcilite
|
Pudding stone.
|
|
seecatch
|
A full-grown male fur seal.
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Solidary
|
having community of interests and responsibilities.
|
|
sepiolite
|
Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.
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Chalybeate
|
any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
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trochlea
|
A pulley.
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Contrite
|
thoroughly bruised or broken.
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Pernicious
|
quick; swift (to burn).
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crotaphytus
|
A genus of lizards of the family Iguanidae, including the collared lizards.
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salebrous
|
Rough; rugged.
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|
prothesis
|
A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
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peculate
|
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
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ampelite
|
An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
|
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condignly
|
According to merit.
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monstrous
|
Exceedingly; very; very much.
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Bigaroon
|
the large white-heart cherry.
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chiliastic
|
Millenarian.
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Acrotomous
|
having a cleavage parallel with the base.
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quinible
|
An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.
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Pissabed
|
a name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
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Exoptable
|
very desirable.
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Capreoline
|
of or pertaining to the roebuck.
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Cautionry
|
suretyship.
|
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Athermancy
|
inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.
|
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paraschematic
|
Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
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procatarctic
|
Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
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bloodulf
|
The European bullfinch.
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Procinct
|
a state of complete readiness for action.
|
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antitypy
|
Opposition or resistance of matter to force.
|
|
binnacle
|
A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
|
|
diversory
|
A wayside inn.
|
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abutilon
|
A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
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Splatterdash
|
uproar.
|
|
Geloscopy
|
divination by means of laughter.
|
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paronymous
|
Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.
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Arctation
|
constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.
|
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fahlunite
|
A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.
|
|
glomuliferous
|
Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
|
|
swinepipe
|
The European redwing.
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|
Arietation
|
the act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.
|
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Carolitic
|
adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.
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Necromantic
|
conjuration.
|
|
calocedrus
|
A genus of tall evergreens of West North America and East Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus.
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Passible
|
susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
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delation
|
Conveyance.
|
|
roadster
|
A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
|
|
aleurone
|
An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (“protein granules”) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
|
|
Parapegm
|
an engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.
|
|
Pompelmous
|
a shaddock, esp. one of large size.
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adiaphory
|
Indifference.
|
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cassonade
|
Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
|
|
Indusial
|
of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvæ of certain insects.
|
|
merocele
|
Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .
|
|
eucharis
|
A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.
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Abodance
|
an omen; a portending.
|
|
balderdash
|
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
|
|
meerschaum
|
A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.
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tetricity
|
Crabbedness; perverseness.
|
|
rabdology
|
The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones.
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Colonical
|
of or pertaining to husbandmen.
|
|
Acceptilation
|
gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
|
|
cane cutter
|
A type of rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) inhabiting southeastern U.S. swamps and lowlands; -- called also swamp rabbit.
|
|
calamine
|
A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.
|
|
Gentilitious
|
peculiar to a people; national.
|
|
knaveship
|
A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
|
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intended
|
Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
|
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ceratodus
|
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.
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Allicient
|
that attracts; attracting.
|
|
Spiroylous
|
pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.
|
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trumpery
|
Worthless or deceptive in character.
|
|
Ordonnance
|
the disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
|
|
Reprobate
|
one morally abandoned and lost.
|
|
Practico
|
a guide.
|
|
limature
|
The act of filing.
|
|
Coralline
|
a submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
|
|
Jobation
|
a scolding; a hand, tedious reproof.
|
|
pediculus
|
A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
|
|
succubous
|
Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
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convellent
|
Tending to tear or pull up.
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benedict
|
Having mild and salubrious qualities.
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Staffman
|
a workman employed in silk throwing.
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alutaceous
|
Leathery.
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florence
|
An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
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Essonite
|
cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. see garnet.
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|
gold-of-pleasure
|
An annual European false flax (Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.
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Aurelian
|
an amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
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Whitterick
|
the curlew.
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Beauseant
|
the black and white standard of the knights templars.
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tachylyte
|
A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
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Biscutella
|
a genus off eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.
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Assimulate
|
to feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
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bignoniaceous
|
Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower (also called trumpet creeper and trumpet vine) is an example.
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Glossina
|
a blood-sucking african fly that transmits sleeping sickness etc.; the tsetse fly.
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Baisemains
|
respects; compliments.
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personate
|
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
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Metaplasm
|
a change in the letters or syllables of a word.
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Arenicolite
|
an ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks.
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beardown
|
Devoting full strength and concentrated attention to.
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scythewhet
|
Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.
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Subpodophyllous
|
situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.
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paronychia
|
A whitlow, or felon{3}.
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bartizan
|
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
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unwroken
|
Not revenged; unavenged.
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inexcusably
|
With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.
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Phreatic
|
subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
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Quickhatch
|
the wolverine.
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Father-lasher
|
a european marine fish (cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
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Assythment
|
indemnification for injury; satisfaction.
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Ailuropodidae
|
in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas.
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ensemble
|
The whole; all the parts taken together.
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Kolkwitzia
|
a chinese genus having only one species, the beauty bush.
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Callowness
|
having a lack of experience of life.
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spheniscan
|
Any species of penguin.
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Comitiva
|
a body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in italy and sicily.
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Ozocerite
|
a waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.
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Suggillation
|
a livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.
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Fascinous
|
caused or acting by witchcraft.
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Dermopterygii
|
a group of fishlike animals including the marsipobranchiata and leptocardia.
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|
Quiescent
|
a silent letter.
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|
Cussedness
|
disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy.
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|
harderian
|
A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
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defalcate
|
To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
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garreting
|
Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
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|
Toxophilite
|
a lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
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innitency
|
A leaning; pressure; weight.
|
|
doublure
|
The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like.
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insociable
|
Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
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Recreant
|
crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
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compagination
|
Union of parts; structure.
|
|
rantipole
|
Wild; roving; rakish.
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acrospire
|
To put forth the first sprout.
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knaveship
|
A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
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acrospire
|
To put forth the first sprout.
|
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Kamptulicon
|
a kind of elastic floor cloth, made of india rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
|
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Catapuce
|
spurge.
|
|
Cony-catch
|
to deceive; to cheat; to trick.
|
|
carnallite
|
A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
|
|
quasimodo
|
The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
|
|
Hamesucken
|
the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
|
|
lambs-quarters
|
A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family, introduced into N. America, and sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.
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reviction
|
Return to life.
|
|
Hydrargyrum
|
quicksilver; mercury.
|
|
dominique
|
An American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
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|
Interdict
|
a prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
|
|
dissimile
|
Comparison or illustration by contraries.
|
|
calamite
|
A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.
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|
Trumpery
|
deceit; fraud.
|
|
teeswater
|
A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.
|
|
Assument
|
a patch; an addition; a piece put on.
|
|
schreibersite
|
A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.
|
|
Nundinary
|
of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day.
|
|
phocenic
|
Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.
|
|
rattleweed
|
Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
|
|
Skirlcock
|
the missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.
|
|
Eglomerate
|
to unwind, as a thread from a ball.
|
|
carminative
|
Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.
|
|
boulevard
|
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
|
|
sacalait
|
A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.
|
|
Chievance
|
an unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
|
|
Spatiate
|
to rove; to ramble.
|
|
Exinanition
|
an emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
|
|
gammoning
|
The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.
|
|
waterwork
|
Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
|
|
suffrutescent
|
Slightly woody at the base.
|
|
cathodic
|
A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.
|
|
hepatization
|
Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
|
|
Gramarye
|
necromancy; magic.
|
|
Interminate
|
to menace; to threaten.
|
|
slapping
|
Very large; monstrous; big.
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|
alutaceous
|
Leathery.
|
|
tentative
|
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
|
|
monopteral
|
Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
|
|
lepadidae
|
A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.
|
|
sculpture
|
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
|
|
Reluctate
|
to struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
|
|
Insitiency
|
freedom from thirst.
|
|
Knoppern
|
a kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.
|
|
Divellicate
|
was to pull in pieces.
|
|
precoetanean
|
One contemporary with, but older than, another.
|
|
exantlation
|
Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.
|
|
Adunation
|
a uniting; union.
|
|
Optimate
|
of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.
|
|
Anapophysis
|
an accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.
|
|
marmolite
|
A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.
|
|
Pancarte
|
a royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
|
|
Wishtonwish
|
was the prairie dog.
|
|
Consarcination
|
a patching together; patchwork.
|
|
tripinnate
|
Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
|
|
counterbalance
|
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
|
|
perofskite
|
A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals.
|
|
bombycinous
|
Silken; made of silk.
|
|
Latescence
|
a slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.
|
|
adscriptive
|
Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
|
|
paronychia
|
A whitlow, or felon{3}.
|
|
paroxytone
|
A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
|
|
knuckled
|
Jointed.
|
|
refaction
|
Recompense; atonement; retribution.
|
|
amanuensis
|
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
|
|
Increpation
|
a chiding; rebuke; reproof.
|
|
incapable
|
One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
|
|
Spondulics
|
money.
|
|
indented
|
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
|
|
oscitant
|
Yawning; gaping.
|
|
garishness
|
Tasteless showiness.
|
|
footcloth
|
Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.
|
|
Phyllite
|
a mineral related to ottrelite.
|
|
plenarty
|
The state of a benefice when occupied.
|
|
minionize
|
To flavor.
|
|
Whitehead
|
a form of self-propelling torpedo.
|
|
Leptology
|
a minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
|
|
carbonado
|
A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.
|
|
synedral
|
Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.
|
|
histrionism
|
Theatrical representation; acting; affectation.
|
|
disslanderous
|
Slanderous.
|
|
Crebritude
|
frequency.
|
|
Stromatic
|
miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
|
|
precaution
|
To warn or caution beforehand.
|
|
sheeprack
|
The starling.
|
|
brotulidae
|
A natural family of chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae.
|
|
hauerite
|
Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.
|
|
blastogenesis
|
Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
|
|
Epulosity
|
a feasting to excess.
|
|
Mantelet
|
a short cloak formerly worn by knights.
|
|
cornemuse
|
A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
|
|
rebiting
|
The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.
|
|
withamite
|
A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.
|
|
volupere
|
A woman's cap.
|
|
Conviciate
|
to utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.
|
|
Troching
|
one of the small branches of a stag's antler.
|
|
petulcous
|
Wanton; frisky; lustful.
|
|
Causally
|
the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.
|
|
Proemptosis
|
the addition of a day to the lunar calendar.
|
|
pettychaps
|
Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
|
|
Daintrel
|
adelicacy.
|
|
Mesostate
|
a product of metabolic action.
|
|
characterized
|
Stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.
|
|
conduplicate
|
Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.
|
|
patellula
|
A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
|
|
discriminous
|
Hazardous; dangerous.
|
|
Colombier
|
a large size of paper for drawings. see under paper.
|
|
Transume
|
to change; to convert.
|
|
synpelmous
|
Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.
|
|
prestable
|
Payable.
|
|
Sarculation
|
a weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.
|
|
Subtiliate
|
to make thin or rare.
|
|
Pedregal
|
a lava field.
|
|
Ampliate
|
having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.
|
|
shendship
|
Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace.
|
|
Lambrequin
|
a kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
|
|
astacura
|
The family including the crayfish.
|
|
Focillate
|
to nourish.
|
|
onchorynchus
|
A genus of fishes including the sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; and coho salmon.
|
|
tribology
|
The study of the effects of friction on parts of machinery moving in contact with each other, and of methods, such as lubrication, to counteract negative effects such as wear.
|
|
cleading
|
A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
|
|
Placentious
|
pleasing; amiable.
|
|
Amyelous
|
wanting the spinal cord.
|
|
Exanthesis
|
an eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
|
|
ingemination
|
Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
|
|
Submonish
|
to suggest; to prompt.
|
|
Calamistration
|
the act or process of curling the hair.
|
|
inoculate
|
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
|
|
Squaloid
|
like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.
|
|
imbroccata
|
A hit or thrust.
|
|
Commorancy
|
a dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.
|
|
Pentecoster
|
an officer in the spartan army commanding fifty men.
|
|
Blandish
|
to flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
|
|
cibarious
|
Pertaining to food; edible.
|
|
pinpatch
|
The common English periwinkle.
|
|
making-up
|
The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
|
|
overthwart
|
Across; crosswise; transversely.
|
|
stibiconite
|
A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.
|
|
Periclitate
|
endanger.
|
|
Barbarea
|
a genus of biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress.
|
|
Exantlate
|
to exhaust or wear out.
|
|
descensory
|
A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
|
|
cephalocercal
|
Relating to the long axis of the body.
|
|
halter-sack
|
A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
|
|
Morigeration
|
obsequiousness; obedience.
|
|
emphyteusis
|
A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.
|
|
Sciotheric
|
of or pertaining to a sundial.
|
|
mesostate
|
A product of metabolic action.
|
|
cleavelandite
|
A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
|
|
cadaster
|
An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property; a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
|
|
meroistic
|
Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
|
|
ruberythrinic
|
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
|
|
belonite
|
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
|
|
antiicteric
|
Good against jaundice.
|
|
dielectric
|
Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor, separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.
|
|
Deprecatory
|
tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
|
|
aglaonema
|
A genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
|
|
ocellated
|
Resembling an eye.
|
|
perchant
|
A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
|
|
ptenoglossa
|
A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.
|
|
Fructuary
|
one who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
|
|
Collitigant
|
disputing or wrangling.
|
|
gismondite
|
A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.
|
|
Warnstore
|
to furnish.
|
|
caladium
|
A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
|
|
Platetrope
|
one of a pair of a paired organs.
|
|
adjuvant
|
A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
|
|
petuntze
|
Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.
|
|
Metaphrast
|
a literal translator.
|
|
Petrosilex
|
felsite.
|
|
solidary
|
Having community of interests and responsibilities.
|
|
fetisely
|
Neatly; gracefully; properly.
|
|
epitrochlea
|
A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.
|
|
Amphigene
|
leucite.
|
|
erythrocebus
|
A genus of consisting of patas.
|
|
paronychia
|
A whitlow, or felon{3}.
|
|
unhouseled
|
Not having received the sacrament.
|
|
palmarium
|
One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
|
|
Oryctography
|
description of fossils.
|
|
crown-imperial
|
A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
|
|
Pompholyx
|
impure zinc oxide.
|
|
rheophore
|
A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
|
|
Conscionably
|
reasonably; justly.
|
|
quadrille
|
A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
|
|
Merrythought
|
the forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. see furculum.
|
|
teratical
|
Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.
|
|
bicolligate
|
Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.
|
|
pinionist
|
Any winged creature.
|
|
brachycatalectic
|
A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
|
|
gazogene
|
A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale.
|
|
cinningly
|
Sleightly.
|
|
curiousness
|
Carefulness; painstaking.
|
|
Anemophilous
|
pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc.
|
|
ceratobranchial
|
Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.
|
|
Ptysmagogue
|
a medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
|
|
Cassonade
|
raw sugar; sugar not refined.
|
|
Catapuce
|
spurge.
|
|
wake-robin
|
Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
|
|
constate
|
To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
|
|
plectile
|
Woven; plaited.
|
|
laumontite
|
A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.
|
|
disjoint
|
To fall in pieces.
|
|
Swordtail
|
the limulus.
|
|
Energize
|
to use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
|
|
Causerie
|
informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
|
|
incocted
|
Raw; indigestible.
|
|
peculium
|
The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
|
|
Battologize
|
to keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
|
|
incedingly
|
Majestically.
|
|
Inseparate
|
not separate; together; united.
|
|
arctotis
|
A genus of herbs and subshrubs: African daisy.
|
|
Dialytic
|
having the quality of unloosing or separating.
|
|
Apparatus
|
things provided as means to some end.
|
|
Peristerion
|
the herb vervain (verbena officinalis).
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|
Glandage
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a feeding on nuts or mast.
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trebucket
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A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
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Gelastic
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pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
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graveolent
|
Having a rank smell.
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phenicopter
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A flamingo.
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survenue
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A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on.
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Exacinate
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to remove the kernel form.
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Pampiniform
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in the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
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Arrastre
|
a rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.
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lygodium
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A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
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mystacal
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Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.
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Yllanraton
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the agouara.
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anagallis
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A genus of chiefly Old World herbs.
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Rosinweed
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the compass plant. see under compass.
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Melicerous
|
consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.
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diervilla
|
Small genus of low deciduous shrubs; the bush honeysuckles.
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pseudorhabdite
|
One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
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quiddler
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One who wastes his energy about trifles.
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Caprifole
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the woodbine or honeysuckle.
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epimeron
|
In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
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bletting
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A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
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Coloboma
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a defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.
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sockdolager
|
That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.
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Desitive
|
final; serving to complete; conclusive.
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pernancy
|
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
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stratotic
|
Warlike; military.
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Metabasis
|
a transition from one subject to another.
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Thermodin
|
a white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.
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Omphalopsychite
|
a name of the hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.
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Bissextile
|
pertaining to leap year.
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Velitation
|
a dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
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phantasmatography
|
A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.
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Cassation
|
the act of annulling.
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hexicology
|
The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
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sciscitation
|
The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
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Steinkirk
|
a kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.
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Exercent
|
practicing; professional.
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pasilaly
|
A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.
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prefloration
|
Æstivation.
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Metastasis
|
a spiritual change, as during baptism.
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trophosperm
|
The placenta.
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humbuggery
|
The practice of imposition.
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Ecphonema
|
a breaking out with some interjectional particle.
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Caudicula
|
a slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
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presumingly
|
Confidently; arrogantly.
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withamite
|
A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.
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Archonts
|
the group including man alone.
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Pancratium
|
an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
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skiffling
|
Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
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interpose
|
To be or come between.
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munificate
|
To enrich.
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hatchettite
|
Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
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metaphrastical
|
Close, or literal.
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autostylic
|
Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.
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intonate
|
To thunder.
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Neocomian
|
of or pertaining to the lower greensand.
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scapolite
|
A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
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recreant
|
One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
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chalazion
|
A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.
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Teleozoic
|
having tissued composed of cells.
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Exantlate
|
to exhaust or wear out.
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persolve
|
To pay wholly, or fully.
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Complicant
|
overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.
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catallacta
|
A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
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corylopsis
|
Small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.
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famulist
|
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
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trimerous
|
Having the parts in threes.
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Halieutics
|
a treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.
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Stramazoun
|
a direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
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Wishtonwish
|
the prairie dog.
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sportulary
|
Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
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gaylussite
|
A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
|
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Coruscate
|
to glitter in flashes; to flash.
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|
ennation
|
The ninth segment in insects.
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Crangonidae
|
shrimps.
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suberous
|
Having a corky texture.
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Rubricate
|
marked with red.
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Efflagitate
|
to ask urgently.
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expletive
|
Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
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swingeing
|
Huge; very large.
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polymnite
|
A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so disposed as to represent rivers, marshes, etc.
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Undigenous
|
generated by water.
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maltese cross
|
A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.
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warkloom
|
A tool; an implement.
|
|
orthology
|
The right description of things.
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|
Dispense
|
to compensate; to make up; to make amends.
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|
Paragram
|
a pun.
|
|
flummery
|
A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
|
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velleity
|
The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
|
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Coromandel
|
the west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the bay of bengal.
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Delenifical
|
assuaging pain.
|
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flagitate
|
To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
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spiroylous
|
Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.
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Menopome
|
the hellbender.
|
|
levorotation
|
Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
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|
Crotchet
|
to play music in measured time.
|
|
columbiad
|
A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.
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|
epistilbite
|
A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
|
|
knee-crooking
|
Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
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Phreatic
|
subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
|
|
Manoscopy
|
the science of the determination of the density of vapors and gases.
|
|
Dragoman
|
an interpreter; -- so called in the levant and other parts of the east.
|
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ribroast
|
To beat soundly.
|
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conversant
|
Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
|
|
Hair-salt
|
a variety of native epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
|
|
promptuary
|
Of or pertaining to preparation.
|
|
wretchless
|
Reckless; hence, disregarded.
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|
Snattock
|
a chip; a slice.
|
|
hoveling
|
A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
|
|
Disjoint
|
difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
|
|
departure
|
Division; separation; putting away.
|
|
Favoredness
|
appearance.
|
|
frequence
|
A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
|
|
concupiscent
|
Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.
|
|
saporific
|
Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.
|
|
effrenation
|
Unbridled license; unruliness.
|
|
Incoacted
|
not compelled; unconstrained.
|
|
Antiphysical
|
relieving flatulence; carminative.
|
|
pediculation
|
Phthiriasis.
|
|
Huckaback
|
a kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
|
|
Chaptrel
|
an impost.
|
|
ceratodus
|
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.
|
|
befogged
|
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.
|
|
empirically
|
By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
|
|
Emboguing
|
the mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
|
|
calender
|
To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
|
|
Cycadofilicales
|
an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the devonian: seed ferns.
|
|
ruptuary
|
One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
|
|
Blackpoll
|
a warbler of the united states (dendroica striata).
|
|
pessulus
|
A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
|
|
Siserary
|
a hard blow.
|
|
anastaltic
|
Styptic.
|
|
edingtonite
|
A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
|
|
Subaction
|
the act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
|
|
Procession
|
to ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.
|
|
caponiere
|
A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
|
|
demilune
|
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
|
|
Glabrous
|
smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
|
|
Bullfice
|
a kind of fungus. see puffball.
|
|
avoidance
|
The act of annulling; annulment.
|
|
incubous
|
Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.
|
|
spattling-poppy
|
A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.
|
|
bulldoze
|
To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
|
|
foreclose
|
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
|
|
tysonite
|
A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.
|
|
Atticize
|
to side with the athenians.
|
|
Urticate
|
to sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
|
|
Heckimal
|
the european blue titmouse (parus cœruleus).
|
|
armozine
|
A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
|
|
discomplexion
|
To change the complexion or hue of.
|
|
peasweep
|
The pewit, or lapwing.
|
|
gieseckite
|
A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.
|
|
redargue
|
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
|
|
arietation
|
The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.
|
|
Knoppern
|
a kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.
|
|
Colonical
|
Colonical
|
|
protactic
|
Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
|
|
Biggonnet
|
a cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.
|
|
cadaster
|
An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property; a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
|
|
Agueweed
|
a gentian of east north america having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
|
|
epagogic
|
Inductive.
|
|
hidrotic
|
Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.
|
|
tectology
|
A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.
|
|
allision
|
The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
|
|
Accension
|
the act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
|
|
Insitiency
|
freedom from thirst.
|
|
Roquelaure
|
a cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
|
|
dialogite
|
Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.
|
|
focillate
|
To nourish.
|
|
Transcur
|
to run or rove to and fro.
|
|
tinternell
|
A certain old dance.
|
|
Outrider
|
a summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
|
|
distract
|
Separated; drawn asunder.
|
|
Lambative
|
a medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
|
|
sutteeism
|
The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
|
|
ceraunoscope
|
An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
|
|
Ecphasis
|
an explicit declaration.
|
|
Kindliness
|
natural inclination; natural course.
|
|
Marcescent
|
withering without falling off; fading; decaying.
|
|
Feuterer
|
a dog keeper.
|
|
butterbump
|
The European bittern.
|
|
Auchenium
|
the part of the neck nearest the back.
|
|
heavy-laden
|
Burdened by cares.
|
|
anthropomorphite
|
One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity.
|
|
emphyteusis
|
A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.
|
|
gavelkind
|
A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
|
|
Fomalhaut
|
a star of the first magnitude, in the constellation piscis australis, or southern fish.
|
|
Tethydan
|
a tunicate.
|
|
pompelmous
|
A shaddock, esp. one of large size.
|
|
pissabed
|
A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
|
|
Brancard
|
a litter on which a person may be carried.
|
|
matfelon
|
The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
|
|
eleusine
|
A genus of annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
|
|
Prodition
|
disclosure; treachery; treason.
|
|
proceleusmatic
|
A foot consisting of four short syllables.
|
|
Extruction
|
a building up; construction.
|
|
bockland
|
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
|
|
Frenzy-free
|
having passions unrestrained by reason.
|
|
protomerite
|
The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.
|
|
bayadere
|
A female dancer in the East Indies.
|
|
Estaminet
|
a café, or room in a café, in which smoking is allowed.
|
|
Bluff-headed
|
built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
|
|
catamite
|
A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
|
|
partheniad
|
A poem in honor of a virgin.
|
|
Trutination
|
the act of weighing.
|
|
Muticous
|
without a point or pointed process; blunt.
|
|
follicle
|
A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
|
|
rhadamanthus
|
One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.
|
|
presidiary
|
A guard.
|
|
brochantite
|
A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
|
|
Hornwrack
|
a bryozoan of the genus flustra.
|
|
mammonism
|
Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
|
|
Dedecorous
|
disgraceful; unbecoming.
|
|
amphigene
|
Leucite.
|
|
Proctucha
|
a division of turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.
|
|
copenhagen
|
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.
|
|
insolence
|
The quality of being unusual or novel.
|
|
Embonpoint
|
plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
|
|
Cathedrated
|
relating to the chair or office of a teacher.
|
|
Triquetrum
|
one of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. see cuneiform (b).
|
|
Minorite
|
a franciscan friar.
|
|
gibbsite
|
A hydrate of alumina.
|
|
insuccation
|
The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
|
|
dopplerite
|
A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
|
|
gieseckite
|
A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.
|
|
clapperboard
|
A device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together.
|
|
Diabaterial
|
passing over the borders.
|
|
quartering
|
Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
|
|
triclinic
|
Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.
|
|
Tachydidaxy
|
a short or rapid method of instructing.
|
|
Pseudotinea
|
the bee moth, or wax moth (galleria).
|
|
Orthomorphic
|
having the right form.
|
|
delitigation
|
Chiding; brawl.
|
|
Munificate
|
to enrich.
|
|
Chevisance
|
achievement; deed; performance.
|
|
emerited
|
Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.
|
|
Ledgment
|
a string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
|
|
Procerite
|
the segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of crustacea.
|
|
Voussoir
|
one of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
|
|
incorporate
|
To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with.
|
|
gold-of-pleasure
|
An annual European false flax (Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.
|
|
Bluestocking
|
a literary lady; a female pedant.
|
|
Leiotrichous
|
having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
|
|
Eteostic
|
a kind of chronogram.
|
|
frustraneous
|
Vain; useless; unprofitable.
|
|
pyromorphite
|
Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.
|
|
hypodermic
|
Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.
|
|
downweed
|
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
|
|
Vadantes
|
an extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
|
|
ditroite
|
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elæolite, and sodalite.
|
|
utterance
|
The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.
|
|
Illaqueate
|
to insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.
|
|
Runcinate
|
pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
|
|
prescribe
|
To give directions; to dictate.
|
|
Ravening
|
eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
|
|
Schediasm
|
cursory writing on a loose sheet.
|
|
Olibanum
|
the fragrant gum resin of various species of boswellia; oriental frankincense.
|
|
Ceratopteris
|
a genus of water ferns.
|
|
tentative
|
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
|
|
fettling
|
A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
|
|
peridium
|
The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.
|
|
cephalaspis
|
A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.
|
|
Ultroneous
|
spontaneous; voluntary.
|
|
Psellism
|
indistinct pronunciation; stammering.
|
|
blendwater
|
A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.
|
|
Inconcoction
|
the state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity.
|
|
syncategorematic
|
Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.
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Acridotheres
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a genus of birds comprising the mynas.
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misfashion
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To form wrongly.
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axiology
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The study of values and value judgments.
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corsepresent
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An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
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Ratiocination
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the process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
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ragguled
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Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
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agraphia
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The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
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mazarine
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A forcemeat entrée.
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Exercent
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practicing; professional.
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bloedite
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A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.
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stag-evil
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A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.
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Snattock
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a chip; a slice.
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High-hoe
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the european green woodpecker or yaffle.
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siderated
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Planet-struck; blasted.
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strathspey
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A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
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Circumstant
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standing or placed around; surrounding.
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bee balm
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A perennial herb (Monarda fistulosa) of North America.
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quemeful
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Kindly; merciful.
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Light-minded
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unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
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Despisingly
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contemptuously.
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ten-pounder
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A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
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biconjugate
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Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
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Galericulate
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covered as with a hat or cap.
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faldistory
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The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.
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amoneste
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To admonish.
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melampode
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The black hellebore.
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garreted
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Protected by turrets.
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woolhead
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The buffel duck.
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websterite
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A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
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meniscus
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A crescent.
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provexity
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Great advance in age.
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decussative
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Intersecting at acute angles.
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frumentarious
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Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
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arctiidae
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A family comprising the tiger moths.
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sugescent
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Of or pertaining to sucking.
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irrorate
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Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand.
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elasmosaurus
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An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.
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Subdolous
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sly; crafty; cunning; artful.
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Coddymoddy
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a gull in the plumage of its first year.
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facinorous
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Atrociously wicked.
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muscivora-forficata
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A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U. S. and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings; the scissortailed flycatcher.
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hebetate
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Obtuse; dull.
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arianrod
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A goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.
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mammonism
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Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
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dolichotis
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A genus of rodents including the maras.
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Filander
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a species of kangaroo (macropus brunii), inhabiting new guinea.
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bottomry
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A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
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malacolite
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A variety of pyroxene.
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enfeloned
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Rendered fierce or frantic.
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smegmatic
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Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.
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torbernite
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A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.
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hanselines
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A sort of breeches.
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Alabastrum
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a flower bud.
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jeremiade
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A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.
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leonurus
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A genus of stout Old World herbs having cut-lobed leaves and flowers in whorls.
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ditionary
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Under rule; subject; tributary.
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procinct
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A state of complete readiness for action.
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Hemimorphic
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having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.
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osmazome
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A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.
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transisthmian
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Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.
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sarcology
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That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.
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vesiculata
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The campanularian medusæ.
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ectrotic
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Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
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quadriga
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A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
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asterias
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A genus of echinoderms.
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buttonweed
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The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
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esparcet
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The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.
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platanist
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The soosoo.
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epichorial
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In or of the country.
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Exestuate
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to be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
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Bundobust
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system; discipline.
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Metamorphose
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to change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
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chalybite
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Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
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hazelwort
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The asarabacca.
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cauponize
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To sell wine or victuals.
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schediasm
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Cursory writing on a loose sheet.
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making-up
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The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
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Abodance
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an omen; a portending.
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obequitate
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To ride about.
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Lymphated
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frightened into madness; raving.
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Stupration
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violation of chastity by force; rape.
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Hystricine
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like or pertaining to the porcupines.
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Long-tongue
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the wryneck.
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thoroughwax
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An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.
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Sherardize
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to subject to the process of vapor galvanizing (which see, below).
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macowanites
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A stout-stemmed genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely.
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Cassideous
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helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
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matter-of-fact
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Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
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brazenly
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In a bold, impudent manner.
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gelastic
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Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
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Thetical
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laid down; absolute or positive, as a law.
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effascination
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A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.
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phosphene
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A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image.
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Crocodility
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a caption or sophistical mode of arguing.
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cornicular
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A secretary or clerk.
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pruritus
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Itching.
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calliphoridae
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A natural family comprising the blowflies.
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esurient
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Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.
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lechanorales
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A category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia.
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subhumerate
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To place the shoulders under; to bear.
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Nauscopy
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the power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.
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Passement
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lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
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cosening
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Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
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amphiscians
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The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
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deintevous
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Rare; excellent; costly.
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Breakstone
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any of various plants of the genus saxifraga.
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lafayette
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The dollar fish.
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postfurca
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One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
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Philathea
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an international, interdenominational organization of bible classes of young women.
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mustelus
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A genus of sharks including certain of the smooth dogfishes.
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Thymiatechny
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the art of employing perfumes in medicine.
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fahlunite
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A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.
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Mangonize
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to furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.
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margaritaceous
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Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
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weigelia
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A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.
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sarcolemma
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The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
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adiaphorist
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One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.
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Ramagious
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wild; not tame.
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Contabescent
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wasting away gradually.
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malabar kino
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The reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus, used in medicine and tanning etc
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absistence
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A standing aloof.
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mattamore
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A subterranean repository for wheat.
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cosening
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Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
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Cockshead
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a leguminous herb (onobrychis caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.
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Mystacal
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of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.
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Thylacine
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the zebra wolf. see under wolf.
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Sodality
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a fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.
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morigerate
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Obedient.
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trinitrophenol
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Picric acid.
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testicardines
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A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
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Beneficiate
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to reduce (ores).
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Muckerer
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a miser; a niggard.
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sheepbiter
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One who practices petty thefts.
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trochilus
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A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
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odocoileus
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A genus of North American deer.
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agrimony
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A genus of plants of the Rose family.
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fourrier
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A harbinger.
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Diopside
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a crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
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pendence
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Slope; inclination.
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animadversion
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The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
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Diallage
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a dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
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sylvanite
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A telluride of gold and silver, (Au, Ag)Te2, of a steel gray, silver white, or brass yellow. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. H., 1.5-2. Sp.gr., 7.9-8.3.
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Self-one
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secret.
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Ingeminate
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to redouble or repeat; to reiterate.
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vindicate
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To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
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Futility
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the quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
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initiate
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Unpracticed; untried; new.
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creasing
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A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.
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cynarrhodium
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A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
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roscoelite
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A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
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Saxicolous
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growing on rocks.
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antiphysical
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Relieving flatulence; carminative.
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anconeus
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A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
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duplexer
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A device which switches electronic circuitry so that a radio antenna can function as either a transmitting or receiving antenna.
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bicrural
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Having two legs.
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vagissate
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To caper or frolic.
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hypethral
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Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building.
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fessitude
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Weariness.
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oreography
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The science of mountains; orography.
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daubreelite
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A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
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clipping
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The act of embracing.
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Limenitis
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a genus comprising mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars.
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phillipsite
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A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.
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Botryose
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having the form of a cluster of grapes.
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Dactylopterous
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having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
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Chopping
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stout or plump; large.
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Ossifrage
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the lammergeir.
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