Funtrivia Hard Vocab

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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

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The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.

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phlogopite

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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

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The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

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Agrostography

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a description of the grasses.

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grindlet

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A small drain.

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Heartsome

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merry; cheerful; lively.

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Crossjack

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the lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

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Accosted

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supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

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measelry

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Leprosy.

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Procrusteanize

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to stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

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decertation

Back 283

Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

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halter-sack

Back 284

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.

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Assapanic

Back 285

the american flying squirrel (pteromys volucella).

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grimaced

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Distorted; crabbed.

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Antanagoge

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a figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

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Pederero

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a term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.

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cromorna

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a certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

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querimony

Back 290

A complaint or complaining.

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immarcescible

Back 291

Unfading; lasting.

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Profligate

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overthrown; beaten; conquered.

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transgress

Back 293

To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

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quinovic

Back 294

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.

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Latitudinarian

Back 295

not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

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incomprehensible

Back 296

Not capable of being contained within limits.

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neoterize

Back 297

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.

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carbamic

Back 298

Pertaining to an acid so called.

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Shanghai

Back 299

a large and tall breed of domestic fowl.

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Trochilic

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of or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

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vambrace

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The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

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traverse

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To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

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semidouble

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Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.

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Merrythought

Back 304

the forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. see furculum.

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Supercrescent

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growing on some other growing thing.

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bloodulf

Back 306

The European bullfinch.

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dactyliology

Back 307

That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving.

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Gobbetly

Back 308

in pieces.

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Vindicate

Back 309

to lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

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oryzopsis

Back 310

A genus of grasses incluiding rice grass.

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viticulose

Back 311

Having long and slender trailing stems.

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hamulose

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Bearing a small hook at the end.

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oppilate

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To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.

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Genethliatic

Back 314

one who calculates nativities.

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transiliency

Back 315

A leap across or from one thing to another.

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paritory

Back 316

Pellitory.

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salmagundi

Back 317

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.

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statuminate

Back 318

To prop or support.

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anthropophuism

Back 319

Human nature.

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cynanche

Back 320

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

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Chorometry

Back 321

the art of surveying a region or district.

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tractitious

Back 322

Treating of; handling.

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Secundate

Back 323

to make prosperous.

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Accismus

Back 324

affected refusal; coyness.

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Poor-john

Back 325

a small european fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.

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gauffering

Back 326

A mode of plaiting or fluting.

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phalanstery

Back 327

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.

Front 328

Garganey

Back 328

a small european duck (anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

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epistilbite

Back 329

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

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ascophyllum

Back 330

a genus of brown algae distinguished by compressed or inflated branchlets along the axis.

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indifferent

Back 331

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

Back 332

inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.

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umquhile

Back 333

Some time ago; formerly.

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bargecourse

Back 334

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.

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woodness

Back 335

Anger; madness; insanity; rage.

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Propugnation

Back 336

means of defense; defense.

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Shiver-spar

Back 337

a variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

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preciosity

Back 338

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

Back 339

one of a pair of a paired organs.

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sinapism

Back 340

A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.

Front 341

lardacein

Back 341

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

Back 342

a genus of water ferns.

Front 343

Wait-a-bit

Back 343

any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing,

Front 344

Barbiton

Back 344

an ancient greek instrument resembling a lyre.

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underground

Back 345

Beneath the surface of the earth.

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alienate

Back 346

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

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Oryctognosy

Back 347

mineralogy.

Front 348

anthemwise

Back 348

Alternately.

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prolonge

Back 349

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.

Front 350

Antibacchius

Back 350

a foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).

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Insession

Back 351

the act of sitting, as in a tub or bath.

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Semidiapason

Back 352

an imperfect octave.

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pernancy

Back 353

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.

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Traducible

Back 354

capable of being derived or propagated.

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Complicant

Back 355

overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

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Coruscate

Back 356

to glitter in flashes; to flash.

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dejecture

Back 357

That which is voided; excrements.

Front 358

zopilote

Back 358

The urubu, or American black vulture.

Front 359

Obturate

Back 359

to stop or close, as an opening;

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Apparaillyng

Back 360

preparation.

Front 361

combinate

Back 361

United; joined; betrothed.

Front 362

Platanist

Back 362

the soosoo.

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Thalassian

Back 363

any sea tortoise.

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Calcarated

Back 364

having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.

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imbecilitate

Back 365

To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.

Front 366

sciotheric

Back 366

Of or pertaining to a sundial.

Front 367

chrysophrys

Back 367

a genus of fishes consisting of the australian snapper.

Front 368

Cimeliarch

Back 368

a superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.

Front 369

Peirastic

Back 369

fitted for trial or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.

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chrysosplenium

Back 370

a genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers.

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glomuliferous

Back 371

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Front 372

Cassinette

Back 372

a cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

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epistome

Back 373

The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea.

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litherly

Back 374

Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.

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sharpling

Back 375

A stickleback.

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appanage

Back 376

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

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Clupeoid

Back 377

of or pertaining to the herring family.

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capercally

Back 378

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.

Front 379

Grangerite

Back 379

one who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

Front 380

Spheniscan

Back 380

any species of penguin.

Front 381

flocculate

Back 381

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

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vouchsafe

Back 382

To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.

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allochroic

Back 383

Changeable in color.

Front 384

ephialtes

Back 384

The nightmare.

Front 385

Severality

Back 385

each particular taken singly; distinction.

Front 386

promenade

Back 386

A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.

Front 387

Mutchkin

Back 387

a liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint.

Front 388

gosainthan

Back 388

A mountain in Tibet, 26,287 feet high.

Front 389

foryelde

Back 389

To repay; to requite.

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Ingravidate

Back 390

to impregnate.

Front 391

Exoptable

Back 391

very desirable.

Front 392

arisarum

Back 392

a genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.

Front 393

acrophony

Back 393

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

Front 394

Saxicolous

Back 394

growing on rocks.

Front 395

knobstick

Back 395

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.

Front 396

glauconite

Back 396

The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

Front 397

accustom

Back 397

To be wont.

Front 398

Pleonaste

Back 398

a black variety of spinel.

Front 399

Licitation

Back 399

the act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.

Front 400

Harridan

Back 400

a worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

Front 401

Ichthidin

Back 401

a substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

Front 402

Sybaritism

Back 402

luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.

Front 403

orismology

Back 403

That department of natural history which treats of technical terms; the science of defining technical terms.

Front 404

Psaltery

Back 404

a stringed instrument of music used by the hebrews, the form of which is not known.

Front 405

cacochymical

Back 405

Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.

Front 406

palinurus

Back 406

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

Front 407

frostweed

Back 407

An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

Front 408

carbazol

Back 408

A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

Front 409

stridulous

Back 409

Making a shrill, creaking sound.

Front 410

canister

Back 410

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

Front 411

adeption

Back 411

An obtaining; attainment.

Front 412

Muticous

Back 412

without a point or pointed process; blunt.

Front 413

Abreuvoir

Back 413

the joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.

Front 414

Hyemation

Back 414

the passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.

Front 415

Exortive

Back 415

rising; relating to the east.

Front 416

rigolette

Back 416

A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.

Front 417

maculature

Back 417

Blotting paper.

Front 418

Cockamaroo

Back 418

the russian variety of bagatelle.

Front 419

Saccharilla

Back 419

a kind of muslin.

Front 420

ambulatory

Back 420

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Front 421

jarosite

Back 421

An ocher-yellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

Front 422

ulodendron

Back 422

A genus of fossil trees.

Front 423

verriculate

Back 423

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

Front 424

transumptive

Back 424

Taking from one to another; metaphorical.

Front 425

Famulate

Back 425

to serve.

Front 426

medicine

Back 426

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

Front 427

profligate

Back 427

To drive away; to overcome.

Front 428

sitheman

Back 428

A mower.

Front 429

conclude

Back 429

To shut up; to inclose.

Front 430

Tambreet

Back 430

the duck mole.

Front 431

carucate

Back 431

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.

Front 432

geocronite

Back 432

A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.

Front 433

Opisthotic

Back 433

the inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

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indifferent

Back 434

To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably.

Front 435

radicular

Back 435

Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.

Front 436

Dimication

Back 436

a fight; contest.

Front 437

Originary

Back 437

causing existence; productive.

Front 438

Dimication

Back 438

a fight; contest.

Front 439

Originary

Back 439

causing existence; productive.

Front 440

Fettling

Back 440

a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.

Front 441

Traiteur

Back 441

the keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.

Front 442

Hebdomadary

Back 442

consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

Front 443

synclastic

Back 443

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.

Front 444

tennantite

Back 444

A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.

Front 445

galliwasp

Back 445

A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

Front 446

Margaritaceous

Back 446

pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

Front 447

Archipterygium

Back 447

the primitive form of fin, like that of ceratodus.

Front 448

scathful

Back 448

Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.

Front 449

clerihew

Back 449

a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.

Front 450

Peduncle

Back 450

the stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

Front 451

Platanist

Back 451

the soosoo.

Front 452

Leniment

Back 452

an assuasive.

Front 453

consound

Back 453

A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

Front 454

Swoopstake

Back 454

altogether; indiscriminately.

Front 455

Mulierose

Back 455

fond of woman.

Front 456

pyromalic

Back 456

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called maleic acid.

Front 457

pullicate

Back 457

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Front 458

saxicoline

Back 458

Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Front 459

tachylyte

Back 459

A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

Front 460

anthology

Back 460

A discourse on flowers.

Front 461

Prestable

Back 461

payable.

Front 462

hallucinate

Back 462

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

Front 463

hallucinate

Back 463

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

Front 464

hallucinate

Back 464

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

Front 465

Tintamar

Back 465

a hideous or confused noise; an uproar.

Front 466

cachunde

Back 466

A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

Front 467

agonistical

Back 467

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.

Front 468

numenius

Back 468

A genus of birds comprising certain of the curlews.

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potestative

Back 469

Authoritative.

Front 470

suffrutescent

Back 470

Slightly woody at the base.

Front 471

brookweed

Back 471

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

Front 472

Tethydan

Back 472

a tunicate.

Front 473

brabbler

Back 473

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

Front 474

polygala

Back 474

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

Front 475

phosphene

Back 475

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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induplicate

Back 476

Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation.

Front 477

aristarchy

Back 477

Severely criticism.

Front 478

Favoredness

Back 478

appearance.

Front 479

stilbite

Back 479

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.

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Tentiginous

Back 480

stiff; stretched; strained.

Front 481

goosewing

Back 481

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.

Front 482

Capitule

Back 482

a summary.

Front 483

Incensant

Back 483

a modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Front 484

Ametabolian

Back 484

of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Front 485

undistinctive

Back 485

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.

Front 486

cacomixl

Back 486

A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.

Front 487

Pucelage

Back 487

virginity.

Front 488

Frumenty

Back 488

food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.

Front 489

Gauffering

Back 489

a mode of plaiting or fluting.

Front 490

mossbunker

Back 490

The menhaded.

Front 491

prolonge

Back 491

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.

Front 492

Venatical

Back 492

of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.

Front 493

Antiloquist

Back 493

a contradicter.

Front 494

misaffected

Back 494

Ill disposed.

Front 495

resolutive

Back 495

Serving to dissolve or relax.

Front 496

Epithumetical

Back 496

pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.

Front 497

radiolite

Back 497

A hippurite.

Front 498

couching

Back 498

The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Front 499

cullionly

Back 499

Mean; base.

Front 500

epicaridan

Back 500

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

Front 501

famulist

Back 501

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

Front 502

Tabescent

Back 502

withering, or wasting away.

Front 503

pedarian

Back 503

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.

Front 504

sanguinary

Back 504

The yarrow.

Front 505

pregnantly

Back 505

Unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.

Front 506

reserate

Back 506

To unlock; to open.

Front 507

Apple-squire

Back 507

a pimp; a kept gallant.

Front 508

Hottentotism

Back 508

a term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.

Front 509

Stonecray

Back 509

a distemper in hawks.

Front 510

Rhetoricate

Back 510

to play the orator.

Front 511

Abderian

Back 511

given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

Front 512

pseudorhabdite

Back 512

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

Front 513

ingeminate

Back 513

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate.

Front 514

gibbsite

Back 514

A hydrate of alumina.

Front 515

Clinquant

Back 515

tinsel; dutch gold.

Front 516

Nerfling

Back 516

the id.

Front 517

Spagyrical

Back 517

chemical; alchemical.

Front 518

bheestie

Back 518

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.

Front 519

Pancratium

Back 519

an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Front 520

impassible

Back 520

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.

Front 521

bombycinous

Back 521

Silken; made of silk.

Front 522

evacuate

Back 522

To let blood

Front 523

pragmatic

Back 523

One skilled in affairs.

Front 524

Petitionarily

Back 524

by way of begging the question; by an assumption.

Front 525

imbrication

Back 525

An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

Front 526

mutilate

Back 526

A cetacean, or a sirenian.

Front 527

importune

Back 527

To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.

Front 528

Flummery

Back 528

a light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

Front 529

Discubitory

Back 529

leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.

Front 530

Bordereau

Back 530

a note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

Front 531

Eteostic

Back 531

a kind of chronogram.

Front 532

Shaftment

Back 532

a measure of about six inches.

Front 533

Tombester

Back 533

a female dancer.

Front 534

Chiliastic

Back 534

millenarian.

Front 535

Sarrasine

Back 535

a portcullis, or herse.

Front 536

desidious

Back 536

Idle; lazy.

Front 537

hottonia

Back 537

A genus of aquatic herbs.

Front 538

harderian

Back 538

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.

Front 539

Euphotide

Back 539

a rock occurring in the alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.

Front 540

Ludicrous

Back 540

adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.

Front 541

hit-or-miss

Back 541

performed without care or close attention; slipshod; careless; -- of the manner of performing a task. Opposite of careful, conscientious or methodical.

Front 542

questuary

Back 542

Studious of profit.

Front 543

Cipherhood

Back 543

nothingness.

Front 544

Hystricine

Back 544

like or pertaining to the porcupines.

Front 545

Coinquinate

Back 545

to pollute.

Front 546

assession

Back 546

A sitting beside or near.

Front 547

Orthodromy

Back 547

the act or art of sailing on a great circle.

Front 548

Batardeau

Back 548

a cofferdam.

Front 549

bandicoot

Back 549

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

Front 550

polyscope

Back 550

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass.

Front 551

delimitate

Back 551

to determine the essential quality of.

Front 552

flamboyer

Back 552

A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.

Front 553

purposeful

Back 553

Important; material.

Front 554

melanterite

Back 554

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.

Front 555

herapathite

Back 555

The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.

Front 556

Xeraphim

Back 556

an old money of account in bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.

Front 557

Liturate

Back 557

having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.

Front 558

Caprella

Back 558

a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.

Front 559

cackling

Back 559

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

Front 560

canderos

Back 560

An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.

Front 561

chaffery

Back 561

Traffic; bargaining.

Front 562

rixation

Back 562

A brawl or quarrel.

Front 563

Inkhornism

Back 563

pedantry.

Front 564

Muticous

Back 564

without a point or pointed process; blunt.

Front 565

spurling

Back 565

A tern.

Front 566

Boundedness

Back 566

the quality of being finite.

Front 567

Conscionably

Back 567

reasonably; justly.

Front 568

Actinotrocha

Back 568

a peculiar larval form of phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

Front 569

amentiferous

Back 569

Bearing catkins.

Front 570

coturnix

Back 570

A genus of birds comprising the Old World quail.

Front 571

proletaneous

Back 571

Having a numerous offspring.

Front 572

cerastes

Back 572

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

Front 573

cribellum

Back 573

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

Front 574

Backwardly

Back 574

reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Front 575

Repertitious

Back 575

found; gained by finding.

Front 576

Occasive

Back 576

of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.

Front 577

tennantite

Back 577

A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.

Front 578

Coticular

Back 578

pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

Front 579

Tantamount

Back 579

equivalent in value, signification, or effect.

Front 580

sempervive

Back 580

The houseleek.

Front 581

engrailment

Back 581

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.

Front 582

hackbolt

Back 582

The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Front 583

Decussatively

Back 583

crosswise; in the form of an x.

Front 584

hellanodic

Back 584

A judge or umpire in games or combats.

Front 585

portfire

Back 585

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.

Front 586

preoccupate

Back 586

To anticipate; to take before.

Front 587

Verecund

Back 587

bashful; modest.

Front 588

Peritomous

Back 588

cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

Front 589

Dartrous

Back 589

relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.

Front 590

Singultous

Back 590

relating to, or affected with, hiccough.

Front 591

amassette

Back 591

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

Front 592

personal

Back 592

A movable; a chattel.

Front 593

devastavit

Back 593

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

Front 594

Pompholyx

Back 594

impure zinc oxide.

Front 595

saussurite

Back 595

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.

Front 596

puppyism

Back 596

Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.

Front 597

Debauched

Back 597

dissolute; dissipated.

Front 598

hyssopus

Back 598

A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.

Front 599

attorney

Back 599

To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

Front 600

resentingly

Back 600

With deep sense or strong perception.

Front 601

arctisca

Back 601

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

Front 602

synedral

Back 602

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

Front 603

Evenhand

Back 603

equality.

Front 604

astipulate

Back 604

To assent.

Front 605

Cibarious

Back 605

pertaining to food; edible.

Front 606

Missificate

Back 606

to perform mass.

Front 607

pineweed

Back 607

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

Front 608

corselet

Back 608

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.

Front 609

transume

Back 609

To change; to convert.

Front 610

newmarket

Back 610

A long, closely fitting cloak.

Front 611

Biscutella

Back 611

a genus off eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.

Front 612

hanselines

Back 612

A sort of breeches.

Front 613

Sportulary

Back 613

subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.

Front 614

protrude

Back 614

To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

Front 615

allowable

Back 615

Praiseworthy; laudable.

Front 616

cholecystis

Back 616

The gall bladder.

Front 617

belswagger

Back 617

A lewd man; also, a bully.

Front 618

nutation

Back 618

The act of nodding.

Front 619

brooklime

Back 619

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana.

Front 620

Amanuensis

Back 620

a person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

Front 621

Prothalamium

Back 621

a song in celebration of a marriage.

Front 622

Littress

Back 622

a smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.

Front 623

Achlamydeous

Back 623

naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

Front 624

muscivora-forficata

Back 624

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.

Front 625

Crosspatch

Back 625

an ill-natured person.

Front 626

salebrous

Back 626

Rough; rugged.

Front 627

mattowacca

Back 627

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.

Front 628

exsufflation

Back 628

A blast from beneath.

Front 629

Sassanage

Back 629

stones left after sifting.

Front 630

archimandrite

Back 630

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

Front 631

variscite

Back 631

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

Front 632

cassonade

Back 632

Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

Front 633

gentianaceae

Back 633

A natural family of chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.

Front 634

Antestature

Back 634

a small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

Front 635

Causally

Back 635

the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.

Front 636

Inchoate

Back 636

to begin.

Front 637

Coulisse

Back 637

a fluting in a sword blade.

Front 638

Rat-tail

Back 638

an excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Front 639

Boniform

Back 639

sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

Front 640

polypodium

Back 640

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.

Front 641

sternbergite

Back 641

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.

Front 642

Incolumity

Back 642

safety; security.

Front 643

monoclinous

Back 643

Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

Front 644

Cardiidae

Back 644

a natural family of somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.

Front 645

Secundate

Back 645

to make prosperous.

Front 646

blazing-star

Back 646

Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.

Front 647

yoncopin

Back 647

A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

Front 648

dimidiate

Back 648

Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.

Front 649

Cachucha

Back 649

an andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

Front 650

Rhonchisonant

Back 650

making a snorting noise; snorting.

Front 651

colluctancy

Back 651

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.

Front 652

bryology

Back 652

That part of botany which relates to mosses.

Front 653

Seldshewn

Back 653

rarely shown or exhibited.

Front 654

decomposed

Back 654

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Front 655

Allogeneous

Back 655

different in nature or kind.

Front 656

Siphonoglyphe

Back 656

a gonidium.

Front 657

Armozine

Back 657

a thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.

Front 658

passingly

Back 658

Exceedingly.

Front 659

Coddymoddy

Back 659

a gull in the plumage of its first year.

Front 660

creasing

Back 660

A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

Front 661

Light-minded

Back 661

unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.

Front 662

Coinquination

Back 662

defilement.

Front 663

Procerity

Back 663

height of stature; tallness.

Front 664

trabeculate

Back 664

Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.

Front 665

antispast

Back 665

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).

Front 666

Frumentaceous

Back 666

made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Front 667

precipient

Back 667

Commanding; directing.

Front 668

camarasaurus

Back 668

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

Front 669

cats-paw

Back 669

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

Front 670

Acrobates

Back 670

a genus of mammals.

Front 671

Perstringe

Back 671

to touch; to graze; to glance on.

Front 672

heteronomous

Back 672

Subject to the law of another.

Front 673

Cunctative

Back 673

slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

Front 674

riptowel

Back 674

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.

Front 675

clamjamphrie

Back 675

Low, worthless people; the rabble.

Front 676

parashah

Back 676

A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

Front 677

Spitchcock

Back 677

an eel split and broiled.

Front 678

Arctotis

Back 678

a genus of herbs and subshrubs: african daisy.

Front 679

chivaree

Back 679

A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.

Front 680

agriology

Back 680

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

Front 681

Fistular

Back 681

hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.

Front 682

clavellated

Back 682

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.

Front 683

demiculverin

Back 683

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

Front 684

Frampoid

Back 684

peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.

Front 685

Fidejussion

Back 685

the act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.

Front 686

Litraneter

Back 686

an instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

Front 687

geochelone

Back 687

A genus of giant tortoises.

Front 688

gestation

Back 688

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

Front 689

Genethliatic

Back 689

one who calculates nativities.

Front 690

Moliminous

Back 690

of great bulk or consequence; very important.

Front 691

humectant

Back 691

Diluent.

Front 692

requietory

Back 692

A sepulcher.

Front 693

erythroxylon

Back 693

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

Front 694

trochoid

Back 694

Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

Front 695

Barbotine

Back 695

a paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Front 696

Colophony

Back 696

rosin.

Front 697

eremacausis

Back 697

A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

Front 698

surroyal

Back 698

One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

Front 699

whitetop

Back 699

Fiorin.

Front 700

Amanuensis

Back 700

a person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

Front 701

Insessorial

Back 701

pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

Front 702

commination

Back 702

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Front 703

misallege

Back 703

To state erroneously.

Front 704

Desecate

Back 704

to cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

Front 705

Interbastation

Back 705

patchwork.

Front 706

maudeline

Back 706

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Front 707

Blowpoint

Back 707

a child's game.

Front 708

Ustulate

Back 708

blackened as if burned.

Front 709

Rodomontade

Back 709

vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.

Front 710

illecebration

Back 710

Allurement.

Front 711

femalist

Back 711

A gallant.

Front 712

overweening

Back 712

Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.

Front 713

toxophilite

Back 713

A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

Front 714

correption

Back 714

Chiding; reproof; reproach.

Front 715

pseudorhabdite

Back 715

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

Front 716

sarculation

Back 716

A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

Front 717

vesiculata

Back 717

The campanularian medusæ.

Front 718

Trucidation

Back 718

the act of killing.

Front 719

saxicolous

Back 719

Growing on rocks.

Front 720

Deintevous

Back 720

rare; excellent; costly.

Front 721

Execrative

Back 721

cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.

Front 722

evigilation

Back 722

A waking up or awakening.

Front 723

Revalescent

Back 723

growing well; recovering strength.

Front 724

Stratonic

Back 724

of or pertaining to an army.

Front 725

sauseflem

Back 725

Having a red, pimpled face.

Front 726

Paralipomenon

Back 726

a title given in the douay bible to the books of chronicles.

Front 727

Vallancy

Back 727

a large wig that shades the face.

Front 728

tentaculite

Back 728

Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

Front 729

arisarum

Back 729

A genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.

Front 730

sembling

Back 730

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

Front 731

Assurgency

Back 731

act of rising.

Front 732

chawdron

Back 732

Entrails.

Front 733

crumenal

Back 733

A purse.

Front 734

Silverback

Back 734

the knot.

Front 735

Sinciput

Back 735

the fore part of the head.

Front 736

allantoid

Back 736

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Front 737

Surseance

Back 737

peace; quiet.

Front 738

Sorehead

Back 738

one who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.

Front 739

syndyasmian

Back 739

Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.

Front 740

brachytypous

Back 740

Of a short form.

Front 741

roborate

Back 741

To give strength or support to; to confirm.

Front 742

gnathonical

Back 742

Flattering; deceitful.

Front 743

nazarite

Back 743

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.

Front 744

organoscopy

Back 744

Phrenology.

Front 745

aphasmidia

Back 745

One of two subgroups of Nematoda used in some classification systems.

Front 746

pandiculation

Back 746

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

Front 747

affabrous

Back 747

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.

Front 748

Bullfice

Back 748

a kind of fungus. see puffball.

Front 749

Volatile

Back 749

a winged animal; wild fowl; game.

Front 750

peristerion

Back 750

The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).

Front 751

Syphering

Back 751

the lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.

Front 752

atlantes

Back 752

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

Front 753

Novercal

Back 753

of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.

Front 754

Trilling

Back 754

one of tree children born at the same birth.

Front 755

melanian

Back 755

One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

Front 756

potently

Back 756

With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.

Front 757

parkeria

Back 757

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.

Front 758

Allusive

Back 758

figurative; symbolical.

Front 759

homilite

Back 759

A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

Front 760

improperation

Back 760

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.

Front 761

Siserary

Back 761

a hard blow.

Front 762

comfortable

Back 762

Strong; vigorous; valiant.

Front 763

diallage

Back 763

A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.

Front 764

Beneficiate

Back 764

to reduce (ores).

Front 765

Archonts

Back 765

the group including man alone.

Front 766

Delassation

Back 766

fatigue.

Front 767

rhyolite

Back 767

A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.

Front 768

calopogon

Back 768

A genus of terrestrial orchids of North America.

Front 769

malcolmia

Back 769

A genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan.

Front 770

acharnement

Back 770

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

Front 771

Commorant

Back 771

ordinarily residing; inhabiting.

Front 772

atacamite

Back 772

An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

Front 773

frustraneous

Back 773

Vain; useless; unprofitable.

Front 774

amphibolous

Back 774

Ambiguous; doubtful.

Front 775

cacostomia

Back 775

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

Front 776

prolification

Back 776

The generation of young.

Front 777

leucoxene

Back 777

A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.

Front 778

Exestuate

Back 778

to be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.

Front 779

hockherb

Back 779

The mallow.

Front 780

ariolation

Back 780

A soothsaying; a foretelling.

Front 781

flavescent

Back 781

Turning yellow; yellowish.

Front 782

perfricate

Back 782

To rub over.

Front 783

irremediably

Back 783

In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.

Front 784

Petromyzont

Back 784

a lamprey.

Front 785

Specialty

Back 785

particularity.

Front 786

acroteleutic

Back 786

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

Front 787

protosomite

Back 787

One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.

Front 788

Scarious

Back 788

thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

Front 789

recollect

Back 789

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Front 790

blubbery

Back 790

Swollen; protuberant.

Front 791

underaction

Back 791

Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.

Front 792

Nostocaceae

Back 792

a natural family of blue-green algae.

Front 793

dicacity

Back 793

Pertness; sauciness.

Front 794

ratiocination

Back 794

The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.

Front 795

neckweed

Back 795

An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.

Front 796

andreaea

Back 796

A genus of brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.

Front 797

dicacity

Back 797

Pertness; sauciness.

Front 798

Purprise

Back 798

a close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

Front 799

brachycatalectic

Back 799

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

Front 800

flibbergib

Back 800

A sycophant.

Front 801

Curialistic

Back 801

pertaining to a court.

Front 802

Obnoxious

Back 802

subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.

Front 803

Decussatively

Back 803

crosswise; in the form of an x.

Front 804

Inapathy

Back 804

sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.

Front 805

meteorism

Back 805

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

Front 806

oragious

Back 806

Stormy.

Front 807

Sinciput

Back 807

the fore part of the head.

Front 808

Flavicomous

Back 808

having yellow hair.

Front 809

arceuthobium

Back 809

A genus of chiefly American plants parasitic on conifers.

Front 810

cyclamen

Back 810

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.

Front 811

Embonpoint

Back 811

plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Front 812

ekebergite

Back 812

A variety of scapolite.

Front 813

Catagmatic

Back 813

having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

Front 814

Tombester

Back 814

a female dancer.

Front 815

eutectic

Back 815

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.

Front 816

loggerheads

Back 816

The knapweed.

Front 817

euonymus

Back 817

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

Front 818

bundobust

Back 818

System; discipline.

Front 819

Loculament

Back 819

the cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

Front 820

sheep-headed

Back 820

Silly; simple-minded; stupid.

Front 821

emphractic

Back 821

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

Front 822

felicitousness

Back 822

A pleasing and appropriate manner or style, especially of expression.

Front 823

Acromion

Back 823

the outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

Front 824

Assemble

Back 824

to liken; to compare.

Front 825

metatheria

Back 825

A subclass of pouched animals.

Front 826

rhabdite

Back 826

A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

Front 827

zoetrope

Back 827

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.

Front 828

Suggillation

Back 828

a livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

Front 829

Complement

Back 829

to supply a lack; to supplement.

Front 830

Readdress

Back 830

to address a second time; -- often used reflexively.

Front 831

Trumpery

Back 831

deceit; fraud.

Front 832

tanistry

Back 832

In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

Front 833

snapdragon

Back 833

Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.

Front 834

Ephemeris

Back 834

a diary; a journal.

Front 835

Suppress

Back 835

to overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

Front 836

Malcolmia

Back 836

a genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the mediterranean to afghanistan.

Front 837

meticulous

Back 837

Timid; fearful.

Front 838

cassiterite

Back 838

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.

Front 839

turlupin

Back 839

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

Front 840

Energical

Back 840

in a state of action; acting; operating.

Front 841

Angusticlave

Back 841

a narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

Front 842

oblation

Back 842

The act of offering, or of making an offering.

Front 843

leucomaine

Back 843

An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.

Front 844

Uppricked

Back 844

upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.

Front 845

Dopplerite

Back 845

a brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Front 846

Parasynaxis

Back 846

an unlawful meeting.

Front 847

trumpery

Back 847

Worthless or deceptive in character.

Front 848

Decertation

Back 848

contest for mastery; contention; strife.

Front 849

Suffraginous

Back 849

of or pertaining to the hock of a beast.

Front 850

Protomerite

Back 850

the second segment of one of the gregarinæ.

Front 851

designator

Back 851

An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

Front 852

acroamatical

Back 852

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.

Front 853

Bunji-bunji

Back 853

an australian timber tree (flindersia schottiana) whose bark yields a poison.

Front 854

Infucate

Back 854

to stain; to paint; to daub.

Front 855

Amphibia

Back 855

one of the classes of vertebrates.

Front 856

Decrepitate

Back 856

to crackle, as salt in roasting.

Front 857

eloignate

Back 857

To remove.

Front 858

urinator

Back 858

One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.

Front 859

factorize

Back 859

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.

Front 860

Conculcate

Back 860

to tread or trample under foot.

Front 861

trimerous

Back 861

Having the parts in threes.

Front 862

abderian

Back 862

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

Front 863

Knighthead

Back 863

a bollard timber. see under bollard.

Front 864

Supercrescent

Back 864

growing on some other growing thing.

Front 865

tambourine

Back 865

A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.

Front 866

Selcouth

Back 866

rarely known; unusual; strange.

Front 867

phocenic

Back 867

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.

Front 868

multicarinate

Back 868

Many-keeled.

Front 869

crippling

Back 869

Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Front 870

halter-sack

Back 870

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.

Front 871

Inoculate

Back 871

to bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

Front 872

wainscot

Back 872

Oaken timber or boarding.

Front 873

parfleche

Back 873

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.

Front 874

antrustion

Back 874

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises

Front 875

ampelite

Back 875

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Front 876

contignation

Back 876

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.

Front 877

basilicon

Back 877

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

Front 878

miniature

Back 878

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

Front 879

galactin

Back 879

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.

Front 880

villanelle

Back 880

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.

Front 881

Quiritation

Back 881

a crying for help.

Front 882

Xenotime

Back 882

a native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

Front 883

Temulent

Back 883

intoxicated; drunken.

Front 884

anfracture

Back 884

A mazy winding.

Front 885

contubernial

Back 885

Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

Front 886

countertime

Back 886

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.

Front 887

phacolite

Back 887

A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.

Front 888

velleity

Back 888

The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

Front 889

fresh-new

Back 889

Unpracticed.

Front 890

Thalassian

Back 890

any sea tortoise.

Front 891

cerebral

Back 891

One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.

Front 892

Whitehead

Back 892

a form of self-propelling torpedo.

Front 893

Anastomus

Back 893

openbills.

Front 894

foreward

Back 894

The van; the front.

Front 895

Ditation

Back 895

the act of making rich; enrichment.

Front 896

disservice

Back 896

Injury; mischief.

Front 897

watertath

Back 897

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Front 898

Runghead

Back 898

the upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Front 899

Faburden

Back 899

a species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

Front 900

Puerperous

Back 900

bearing children.

Front 901

retinalite

Back 901

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

Front 902

horneophyton

Back 902

A genus of Devonian fossil plants considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; it is similar to genus Rhynia but smaller.

Front 903

platetrope

Back 903

One of a pair of a paired organs.

Front 904

Loculous

Back 904

divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Front 905

Apotelesm

Back 905

the result or issue.

Front 906

Gaspereau

Back 906

the alewife.

Front 907

entertain

Back 907

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

Front 908

dissweeten

Back 908

To deprive of sweetness.

Front 909

Wrawness

Back 909

peevishness; ill temper; anger.

Front 910

Cultrated

Back 910

sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Front 911

encolure

Back 911

The neck of horse.

Front 912

dispense

Back 912

To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Front 913

libethenite

Back 913

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

Front 914

Eikonogen

Back 914

the sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, c10h5(oh)(nh2)so3na used as a developer.

Front 915

vouchsafe

Back 915

To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.

Front 916

collitigant

Back 916

Disputing or wrangling.

Front 917

antithesis

Back 917

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.”

Front 918

Ossifrage

Back 918

the lammergeir.

Front 919

Surculate

Back 919

to purne; to trim.

Front 920

smegmatic

Back 920

Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

Front 921

hollowly

Back 921

Insincerely; deceitfully.

Front 922

Instaurate

Back 922

to renew or renovate.

Front 923

Languish

Back 923

to cause to droop or pine.

Front 924

Ferrandine

Back 924

a stuff made of silk and wool.

Front 925

defecate

Back 925

To become clear, pure, or free.

Front 926

epithema

Back 926

A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Front 927

tachhydrite

Back 927

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.

Front 928

prosphysis

Back 928

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.

Front 929

prostitute

Back 929

Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.

Front 930

ecphoneme

Back 930

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.

Front 931

Intervert

Back 931

to turn to another course or use.

Front 932

lombardeer

Back 932

A pawnbroker.

Front 933

conviciate

Back 933

To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.

Front 934

perthite

Back 934

A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.

Front 935

liturate

Back 935

Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.

Front 936

actinolite

Back 936

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Front 937

Barracan

Back 937

a thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the levant.

Front 938

Whirlicote

Back 938

an open car or chariot.

Front 939

Pulverine

Back 939

ashes of barilla.

Front 940

arianrod

Back 940

A goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.

Front 941

imposthume

Back 941

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

Front 942

Stannary

Back 942

of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.

Front 943

scepterellate

Back 943

Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.

Front 944

Pernicious

Back 944

quick; swift (to burn).

Front 945

Officinal

Back 945

used in a shop, or belonging to it.

Front 946

Sarabaite

Back 946

one of certain vagrant or heretical oriental monks in the early church.

Front 947

demantoid

Back 947

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.

Front 948

Rodomontade

Back 948

to boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.

Front 949

Libertine

Back 949

a manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

Front 950

Anthropopathite

Back 950

one who ascribes human feelings to deity.

Front 951

premices

Back 951

First fruits.

Front 952

herakline

Back 952

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

Front 953

exantlate

Back 953

To exhaust or wear out.

Front 954

postfurca

Back 954

One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.

Front 955

colleague

Back 955

To unite or associate with another or with others.

Front 956

Psalterium

Back 956

the third stomach of ruminants. see manyplies.

Front 957

Ruptuary

Back 957

one not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.

Front 958

prosopolepsy

Back 958

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.

Front 959

yearnings

Back 959

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

Front 960

spodumene

Back 960

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.

Front 961

liparite

Back 961

A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

Front 962

yearnings

Back 962

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

Front 963

spodumene

Back 963

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.

Front 964

liparite

Back 964

A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

Front 965

implicated

Back 965

Culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.

Front 966

Merocele

Back 966

hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia.

Front 967

Quodlibetarian

Back 967

one who discusses any subject at pleasure.

Front 968

Baignoire

Back 968

a box of the lowest tier in a theater.

Front 969

Clubbish

Back 969

rude; clownish.

Front 970

attorney

Back 970

To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

Front 971

Parulidae

Back 971

a natural family of new world warblers.

Front 972

vadantes

Back 972

An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

Front 973

Quartering

Back 973

a station.

Front 974

picrolite

Back 974

A fibrous variety of serpentine.

Front 975

ribroast

Back 975

To beat soundly.

Front 976

trisagion

Back 976

An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.

Front 977

ithyphallic

Back 977

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.

Front 978

Agastache

Back 978

giant hyssop; mexican hyssop.

Front 979

overprompt

Back 979

Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate.

Front 980

Nuncupative

Back 980

publicly or solemnly declaratory.

Front 981

Feoffment

Back 981

the grant of a feud or fee.

Front 982

Sightful

Back 982

easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

Front 983

carolitic

Back 983

Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

Front 984

aglaonema

Back 984

A genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.

Front 985

Abreaction

Back 985

the purging of emotional tensions. see catharsis, below.

Front 986

saltimbanco

Back 986

A mountebank; a quack.

Front 987

discriminal

Back 987

In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.

Front 988

oxycrate

Back 988

A Mixture of water and vinegar.

Front 989

Proditor

Back 989

a traitor.

Front 990

clinquant

Back 990

Tinsel; Dutch gold.

Front 991

stunning

Back 991

Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

Front 992

Intemerated

Back 992

pure; undefiled.

Front 993

Jungermanniales

Back 993

a large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.

Front 994

canistel

Back 994

A tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.

Front 995

eumolpus

Back 995

A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.

Front 996

pococurantism

Back 996

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Front 997

Paramitome

Back 997

the fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.

Front 998

trochite

Back 998

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

Front 999

farcilite

Back 999

Pudding stone.

Front 1000

seecatch

Back 1000

A full-grown male fur seal.

Front 1001

Solidary

Back 1001

having community of interests and responsibilities.

Front 1002

sepiolite

Back 1002

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

Front 1003

Chalybeate

Back 1003

any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.

Front 1004

trochlea

Back 1004

A pulley.

Front 1005

Contrite

Back 1005

thoroughly bruised or broken.

Front 1006

Pernicious

Back 1006

quick; swift (to burn).

Front 1007

crotaphytus

Back 1007

A genus of lizards of the family Iguanidae, including the collared lizards.

Front 1008

salebrous

Back 1008

Rough; rugged.

Front 1009

prothesis

Back 1009

A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

Front 1010

peculate

Back 1010

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

Front 1011

ampelite

Back 1011

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Front 1012

condignly

Back 1012

According to merit.

Front 1013

monstrous

Back 1013

Exceedingly; very; very much.

Front 1014

Bigaroon

Back 1014

the large white-heart cherry.

Front 1015

chiliastic

Back 1015

Millenarian.

Front 1016

Acrotomous

Back 1016

having a cleavage parallel with the base.

Front 1017

quinible

Back 1017

An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.

Front 1018

Pissabed

Back 1018

a name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

Front 1019

Exoptable

Back 1019

very desirable.

Front 1020

Capreoline

Back 1020

of or pertaining to the roebuck.

Front 1021

Cautionry

Back 1021

suretyship.

Front 1022

Athermancy

Back 1022

inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.

Front 1023

paraschematic

Back 1023

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.

Front 1024

procatarctic

Back 1024

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.

Front 1025

bloodulf

Back 1025

The European bullfinch.

Front 1026

Procinct

Back 1026

a state of complete readiness for action.

Front 1027

antitypy

Back 1027

Opposition or resistance of matter to force.

Front 1028

binnacle

Back 1028

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

Front 1029

diversory

Back 1029

A wayside inn.

Front 1030

abutilon

Back 1030

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

Front 1031

Splatterdash

Back 1031

uproar.

Front 1032

Geloscopy

Back 1032

divination by means of laughter.

Front 1033

paronymous

Back 1033

Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.

Front 1034

Arctation

Back 1034

constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

Front 1035

fahlunite

Back 1035

A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.

Front 1036

glomuliferous

Back 1036

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Front 1037

swinepipe

Back 1037

The European redwing.

Front 1038

Arietation

Back 1038

the act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.

Front 1039

Carolitic

Back 1039

adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

Front 1040

Necromantic

Back 1040

conjuration.

Front 1041

calocedrus

Back 1041

A genus of tall evergreens of West North America and East Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus.

Front 1042

Passible

Back 1042

susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.

Front 1043

delation

Back 1043

Conveyance.

Front 1044

roadster

Back 1044

A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

Front 1045

aleurone

Back 1045

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (“protein granules”) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

Front 1046

Parapegm

Back 1046

an engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

Front 1047

Pompelmous

Back 1047

a shaddock, esp. one of large size.

Front 1048

adiaphory

Back 1048

Indifference.

Front 1049

cassonade

Back 1049

Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

Front 1050

Indusial

Back 1050

of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvæ of certain insects.

Front 1051

merocele

Back 1051

Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .

Front 1052

eucharis

Back 1052

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

Front 1053

Abodance

Back 1053

an omen; a portending.

Front 1054

balderdash

Back 1054

To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Front 1055

meerschaum

Back 1055

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.

Front 1056

tetricity

Back 1056

Crabbedness; perverseness.

Front 1057

rabdology

Back 1057

The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones.

Front 1058

Colonical

Back 1058

of or pertaining to husbandmen.

Front 1059

Acceptilation

Back 1059

gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Front 1060

cane cutter

Back 1060

A type of rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) inhabiting southeastern U.S. swamps and lowlands; -- called also swamp rabbit.

Front 1061

calamine

Back 1061

A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

Front 1062

Gentilitious

Back 1062

peculiar to a people; national.

Front 1063

knaveship

Back 1063

A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.

Front 1064

intended

Back 1064

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

Front 1065

ceratodus

Back 1065

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.

Front 1066

Allicient

Back 1066

that attracts; attracting.

Front 1067

Spiroylous

Back 1067

pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.

Front 1068

trumpery

Back 1068

Worthless or deceptive in character.

Front 1069

Ordonnance

Back 1069

the disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.

Front 1070

Reprobate

Back 1070

one morally abandoned and lost.

Front 1071

Practico

Back 1071

a guide.

Front 1072

limature

Back 1072

The act of filing.

Front 1073

Coralline

Back 1073

a submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.

Front 1074

Jobation

Back 1074

a scolding; a hand, tedious reproof.

Front 1075

pediculus

Back 1075

A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.

Front 1076

succubous

Back 1076

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.

Front 1077

convellent

Back 1077

Tending to tear or pull up.

Front 1078

benedict

Back 1078

Having mild and salubrious qualities.

Front 1079

Staffman

Back 1079

a workman employed in silk throwing.

Front 1080

alutaceous

Back 1080

Leathery.

Front 1081

florence

Back 1081

An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.

Front 1082

Essonite

Back 1082

cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. see garnet.

Front 1083

gold-of-pleasure

Back 1083

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.

Front 1084

Aurelian

Back 1084

an amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

Front 1085

Whitterick

Back 1085

the curlew.

Front 1086

Beauseant

Back 1086

the black and white standard of the knights templars.

Front 1087

tachylyte

Back 1087

A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

Front 1088

Biscutella

Back 1088

a genus off eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.

Front 1089

Assimulate

Back 1089

to feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.

Front 1090

bignoniaceous

Back 1090

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower (also called trumpet creeper and trumpet vine) is an example.

Front 1091

Glossina

Back 1091

a blood-sucking african fly that transmits sleeping sickness etc.; the tsetse fly.

Front 1092

Baisemains

Back 1092

respects; compliments.

Front 1093

personate

Back 1093

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Front 1094

Metaplasm

Back 1094

a change in the letters or syllables of a word.

Front 1095

Arenicolite

Back 1095

an ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks.

Front 1096

beardown

Back 1096

Devoting full strength and concentrated attention to.

Front 1097

scythewhet

Back 1097

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.

Front 1098

Subpodophyllous

Back 1098

situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.

Front 1099

paronychia

Back 1099

A whitlow, or felon{3}.

Front 1100

bartizan

Back 1100

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

Front 1101

unwroken

Back 1101

Not revenged; unavenged.

Front 1102

inexcusably

Back 1102

With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.

Front 1103

Phreatic

Back 1103

subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.

Front 1104

Quickhatch

Back 1104

the wolverine.

Front 1105

Father-lasher

Back 1105

a european marine fish (cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

Front 1106

Assythment

Back 1106

indemnification for injury; satisfaction.

Front 1107

Ailuropodidae

Back 1107

in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas.

Front 1108

ensemble

Back 1108

The whole; all the parts taken together.

Front 1109

Kolkwitzia

Back 1109

a chinese genus having only one species, the beauty bush.

Front 1110

Callowness

Back 1110

having a lack of experience of life.

Front 1111

spheniscan

Back 1111

Any species of penguin.

Front 1112

Comitiva

Back 1112

a body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in italy and sicily.

Front 1113

Ozocerite

Back 1113

a waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.

Front 1114

Suggillation

Back 1114

a livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

Front 1115

Fascinous

Back 1115

caused or acting by witchcraft.

Front 1116

Dermopterygii

Back 1116

a group of fishlike animals including the marsipobranchiata and leptocardia.

Front 1117

Quiescent

Back 1117

a silent letter.

Front 1118

Cussedness

Back 1118

disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy.

Front 1119

harderian

Back 1119

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.

Front 1120

defalcate

Back 1120

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.

Front 1121

garreting

Back 1121

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Front 1122

Toxophilite

Back 1122

a lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

Front 1123

innitency

Back 1123

A leaning; pressure; weight.

Front 1124

doublure

Back 1124

The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like.

Front 1125

insociable

Back 1125

Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.

Front 1126

Recreant

Back 1126

crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

Front 1127

compagination

Back 1127

Union of parts; structure.

Front 1128

rantipole

Back 1128

Wild; roving; rakish.

Front 1129

acrospire

Back 1129

To put forth the first sprout.

Front 1130

knaveship

Back 1130

A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.

Front 1131

acrospire

Back 1131

To put forth the first sprout.

Front 1132

Kamptulicon

Back 1132

a kind of elastic floor cloth, made of india rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

Front 1133

Catapuce

Back 1133

spurge.

Front 1134

Cony-catch

Back 1134

to deceive; to cheat; to trick.

Front 1135

carnallite

Back 1135

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

Front 1136

quasimodo

Back 1136

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Front 1137

Hamesucken

Back 1137

the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.

Front 1138

lambs-quarters

Back 1138

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.

Front 1139

reviction

Back 1139

Return to life.

Front 1140

Hydrargyrum

Back 1140

quicksilver; mercury.

Front 1141

dominique

Back 1141

An American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

Front 1142

Interdict

Back 1142

a prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

Front 1143

dissimile

Back 1143

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Front 1144

calamite

Back 1144

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.

Front 1145

Trumpery

Back 1145

deceit; fraud.

Front 1146

teeswater

Back 1146

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.

Front 1147

Assument

Back 1147

a patch; an addition; a piece put on.

Front 1148

schreibersite

Back 1148

A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.

Front 1149

Nundinary

Back 1149

of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day.

Front 1150

phocenic

Back 1150

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.

Front 1151

rattleweed

Back 1151

Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

Front 1152

Skirlcock

Back 1152

the missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.

Front 1153

Eglomerate

Back 1153

to unwind, as a thread from a ball.

Front 1154

carminative

Back 1154

Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.

Front 1155

boulevard

Back 1155

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

Front 1156

sacalait

Back 1156

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

Front 1157

Chievance

Back 1157

an unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.

Front 1158

Spatiate

Back 1158

to rove; to ramble.

Front 1159

Exinanition

Back 1159

an emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

Front 1160

gammoning

Back 1160

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.

Front 1161

waterwork

Back 1161

Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

Front 1162

suffrutescent

Back 1162

Slightly woody at the base.

Front 1163

cathodic

Back 1163

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

Front 1164

hepatization

Back 1164

Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.

Front 1165

Gramarye

Back 1165

necromancy; magic.

Front 1166

Interminate

Back 1166

to menace; to threaten.

Front 1167

slapping

Back 1167

Very large; monstrous; big.

Front 1168

alutaceous

Back 1168

Leathery.

Front 1169

tentative

Back 1169

An essay; a trial; an experiment.

Front 1170

monopteral

Back 1170

Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

Front 1171

lepadidae

Back 1171

A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.

Front 1172

sculpture

Back 1172

To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

Front 1173

Reluctate

Back 1173

to struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.

Front 1174

Insitiency

Back 1174

freedom from thirst.

Front 1175

Knoppern

Back 1175

a kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

Front 1176

Divellicate

Back 1176

was to pull in pieces.

Front 1177

precoetanean

Back 1177

One contemporary with, but older than, another.

Front 1178

exantlation

Back 1178

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

Front 1179

Adunation

Back 1179

a uniting; union.

Front 1180

Optimate

Back 1180

of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.

Front 1181

Anapophysis

Back 1181

an accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

Front 1182

marmolite

Back 1182

A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.

Front 1183

Pancarte

Back 1183

a royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

Front 1184

Wishtonwish

Back 1184

was the prairie dog.

Front 1185

Consarcination

Back 1185

a patching together; patchwork.

Front 1186

tripinnate

Back 1186

Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

Front 1187

counterbalance

Back 1187

A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another

Front 1188

perofskite

Back 1188

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals.

Front 1189

bombycinous

Back 1189

Silken; made of silk.

Front 1190

Latescence

Back 1190

a slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.

Front 1191

adscriptive

Back 1191

Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.

Front 1192

paronychia

Back 1192

A whitlow, or felon{3}.

Front 1193

paroxytone

Back 1193

A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Front 1194

knuckled

Back 1194

Jointed.

Front 1195

refaction

Back 1195

Recompense; atonement; retribution.

Front 1196

amanuensis

Back 1196

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

Front 1197

Increpation

Back 1197

a chiding; rebuke; reproof.

Front 1198

incapable

Back 1198

One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

Front 1199

Spondulics

Back 1199

money.

Front 1200

indented

Back 1200

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

Front 1201

oscitant

Back 1201

Yawning; gaping.

Front 1202

garishness

Back 1202

Tasteless showiness.

Front 1203

footcloth

Back 1203

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.

Front 1204

Phyllite

Back 1204

a mineral related to ottrelite.

Front 1205

plenarty

Back 1205

The state of a benefice when occupied.

Front 1206

minionize

Back 1206

To flavor.

Front 1207

Whitehead

Back 1207

a form of self-propelling torpedo.

Front 1208

Leptology

Back 1208

a minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.

Front 1209

carbonado

Back 1209

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.

Front 1210

synedral

Back 1210

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

Front 1211

histrionism

Back 1211

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation.

Front 1212

disslanderous

Back 1212

Slanderous.

Front 1213

Crebritude

Back 1213

frequency.

Front 1214

Stromatic

Back 1214

miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.

Front 1215

precaution

Back 1215

To warn or caution beforehand.

Front 1216

sheeprack

Back 1216

The starling.

Front 1217

brotulidae

Back 1217

A natural family of chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae.

Front 1218

hauerite

Back 1218

Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

Front 1219

blastogenesis

Back 1219

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

Front 1220

Epulosity

Back 1220

a feasting to excess.

Front 1221

Mantelet

Back 1221

a short cloak formerly worn by knights.

Front 1222

cornemuse

Back 1222

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.

Front 1223

rebiting

Back 1223

The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.

Front 1224

withamite

Back 1224

A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

Front 1225

volupere

Back 1225

A woman's cap.

Front 1226

Conviciate

Back 1226

to utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.

Front 1227

Troching

Back 1227

one of the small branches of a stag's antler.

Front 1228

petulcous

Back 1228

Wanton; frisky; lustful.

Front 1229

Causally

Back 1229

the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.

Front 1230

Proemptosis

Back 1230

the addition of a day to the lunar calendar.

Front 1231

pettychaps

Back 1231

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).

Front 1232

Daintrel

Back 1232

adelicacy.

Front 1233

Mesostate

Back 1233

a product of metabolic action.

Front 1234

characterized

Back 1234

Stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Front 1235

conduplicate

Back 1235

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

Front 1236

patellula

Back 1236

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Front 1237

discriminous

Back 1237

Hazardous; dangerous.

Front 1238

Colombier

Back 1238

a large size of paper for drawings. see under paper.

Front 1239

Transume

Back 1239

to change; to convert.

Front 1240

synpelmous

Back 1240

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

Front 1241

prestable

Back 1241

Payable.

Front 1242

Sarculation

Back 1242

a weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

Front 1243

Subtiliate

Back 1243

to make thin or rare.

Front 1244

Pedregal

Back 1244

a lava field.

Front 1245

Ampliate

Back 1245

having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

Front 1246

shendship

Back 1246

Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace.

Front 1247

Lambrequin

Back 1247

a kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

Front 1248

astacura

Back 1248

The family including the crayfish.

Front 1249

Focillate

Back 1249

to nourish.

Front 1250

onchorynchus

Back 1250

A genus of fishes including the sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; and coho salmon.

Front 1251

tribology

Back 1251

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.

Front 1252

cleading

Back 1252

A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

Front 1253

Placentious

Back 1253

pleasing; amiable.

Front 1254

Amyelous

Back 1254

wanting the spinal cord.

Front 1255

Exanthesis

Back 1255

an eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Front 1256

ingemination

Back 1256

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.

Front 1257

Submonish

Back 1257

to suggest; to prompt.

Front 1258

Calamistration

Back 1258

the act or process of curling the hair.

Front 1259

inoculate

Back 1259

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

Front 1260

Squaloid

Back 1260

like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Front 1261

imbroccata

Back 1261

A hit or thrust.

Front 1262

Commorancy

Back 1262

a dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.

Front 1263

Pentecoster

Back 1263

an officer in the spartan army commanding fifty men.

Front 1264

Blandish

Back 1264

to flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

Front 1265

cibarious

Back 1265

Pertaining to food; edible.

Front 1266

pinpatch

Back 1266

The common English periwinkle.

Front 1267

making-up

Back 1267

The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.

Front 1268

overthwart

Back 1268

Across; crosswise; transversely.

Front 1269

stibiconite

Back 1269

A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.

Front 1270

Periclitate

Back 1270

endanger.

Front 1271

Barbarea

Back 1271

a genus of biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress.

Front 1272

Exantlate

Back 1272

to exhaust or wear out.

Front 1273

descensory

Back 1273

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

Front 1274

cephalocercal

Back 1274

Relating to the long axis of the body.

Front 1275

halter-sack

Back 1275

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.

Front 1276

Morigeration

Back 1276

obsequiousness; obedience.

Front 1277

emphyteusis

Back 1277

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.

Front 1278

Sciotheric

Back 1278

of or pertaining to a sundial.

Front 1279

mesostate

Back 1279

A product of metabolic action.

Front 1280

cleavelandite

Back 1280

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

Front 1281

cadaster

Back 1281

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.

Front 1282

meroistic

Back 1282

Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.

Front 1283

ruberythrinic

Back 1283

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

Front 1284

belonite

Back 1284

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

Front 1285

antiicteric

Back 1285

Good against jaundice.

Front 1286

dielectric

Back 1286

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.

Front 1287

Deprecatory

Back 1287

tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

Front 1288

aglaonema

Back 1288

A genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.

Front 1289

ocellated

Back 1289

Resembling an eye.

Front 1290

perchant

Back 1290

A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

Front 1291

ptenoglossa

Back 1291

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Front 1292

Fructuary

Back 1292

one who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.

Front 1293

Collitigant

Back 1293

disputing or wrangling.

Front 1294

gismondite

Back 1294

A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.

Front 1295

Warnstore

Back 1295

to furnish.

Front 1296

caladium

Back 1296

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.

Front 1297

Platetrope

Back 1297

one of a pair of a paired organs.

Front 1298

adjuvant

Back 1298

A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.

Front 1299

petuntze

Back 1299

Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

Front 1300

Metaphrast

Back 1300

a literal translator.

Front 1301

Petrosilex

Back 1301

felsite.

Front 1302

solidary

Back 1302

Having community of interests and responsibilities.

Front 1303

fetisely

Back 1303

Neatly; gracefully; properly.

Front 1304

epitrochlea

Back 1304

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

Front 1305

Amphigene

Back 1305

leucite.

Front 1306

erythrocebus

Back 1306

A genus of consisting of patas.

Front 1307

paronychia

Back 1307

A whitlow, or felon{3}.

Front 1308

unhouseled

Back 1308

Not having received the sacrament.

Front 1309

palmarium

Back 1309

One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Front 1310

Oryctography

Back 1310

description of fossils.

Front 1311

crown-imperial

Back 1311

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.

Front 1312

Pompholyx

Back 1312

impure zinc oxide.

Front 1313

rheophore

Back 1313

A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.

Front 1314

Conscionably

Back 1314

reasonably; justly.

Front 1315

quadrille

Back 1315

A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.

Front 1316

Merrythought

Back 1316

the forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. see furculum.

Front 1317

teratical

Back 1317

Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.

Front 1318

bicolligate

Back 1318

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

Front 1319

pinionist

Back 1319

Any winged creature.

Front 1320

brachycatalectic

Back 1320

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

Front 1321

gazogene

Back 1321

A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale.

Front 1322

cinningly

Back 1322

Sleightly.

Front 1323

curiousness

Back 1323

Carefulness; painstaking.

Front 1324

Anemophilous

Back 1324

pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc.

Front 1325

ceratobranchial

Back 1325

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.

Front 1326

Ptysmagogue

Back 1326

a medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

Front 1327

Cassonade

Back 1327

raw sugar; sugar not refined.

Front 1328

Catapuce

Back 1328

spurge.

Front 1329

wake-robin

Back 1329

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

Front 1330

constate

Back 1330

To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

Front 1331

plectile

Back 1331

Woven; plaited.

Front 1332

laumontite

Back 1332

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.

Front 1333

disjoint

Back 1333

To fall in pieces.

Front 1334

Swordtail

Back 1334

the limulus.

Front 1335

Energize

Back 1335

to use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

Front 1336

Causerie

Back 1336

informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.

Front 1337

incocted

Back 1337

Raw; indigestible.

Front 1338

peculium

Back 1338

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.

Front 1339

Battologize

Back 1339

to keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.

Front 1340

incedingly

Back 1340

Majestically.

Front 1341

Inseparate

Back 1341

not separate; together; united.

Front 1342

arctotis

Back 1342

A genus of herbs and subshrubs: African daisy.

Front 1343

Dialytic

Back 1343

having the quality of unloosing or separating.

Front 1344

Apparatus

Back 1344

things provided as means to some end.

Front 1345

Peristerion

Back 1345

the herb vervain (verbena officinalis).

Front 1346

Glandage

Back 1346

a feeding on nuts or mast.

Front 1347

trebucket

Back 1347

A cucking stool; a tumbrel.

Front 1348

Gelastic

Back 1348

pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

Front 1349

graveolent

Back 1349

Having a rank smell.

Front 1350

phenicopter

Back 1350

A flamingo.

Front 1351

survenue

Back 1351

A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on.

Front 1352

Exacinate

Back 1352

to remove the kernel form.

Front 1353

Pampiniform

Back 1353

in the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Front 1354

Arrastre

Back 1354

a rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

Front 1355

lygodium

Back 1355

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

Front 1356

mystacal

Back 1356

Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.

Front 1357

Yllanraton

Back 1357

the agouara.

Front 1358

anagallis

Back 1358

A genus of chiefly Old World herbs.

Front 1359

Rosinweed

Back 1359

the compass plant. see under compass.

Front 1360

Melicerous

Back 1360

consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.

Front 1361

diervilla

Back 1361

Small genus of low deciduous shrubs; the bush honeysuckles.

Front 1362

pseudorhabdite

Back 1362

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

Front 1363

quiddler

Back 1363

One who wastes his energy about trifles.

Front 1364

Caprifole

Back 1364

the woodbine or honeysuckle.

Front 1365

epimeron

Back 1365

In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.

Front 1366

bletting

Back 1366

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.

Front 1367

Coloboma

Back 1367

a defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

Front 1368

sockdolager

Back 1368

That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.

Front 1369

Desitive

Back 1369

final; serving to complete; conclusive.

Front 1370

pernancy

Back 1370

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.

Front 1371

stratotic

Back 1371

Warlike; military.

Front 1372

Metabasis

Back 1372

a transition from one subject to another.

Front 1373

Thermodin

Back 1373

a white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.

Front 1374

Omphalopsychite

Back 1374

a name of the hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.

Front 1375

Bissextile

Back 1375

pertaining to leap year.

Front 1376

Velitation

Back 1376

a dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.

Front 1377

phantasmatography

Back 1377

A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

Front 1378

Cassation

Back 1378

the act of annulling.

Front 1379

hexicology

Back 1379

The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.

Front 1380

sciscitation

Back 1380

The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.

Front 1381

Steinkirk

Back 1381

a kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.

Front 1382

Exercent

Back 1382

practicing; professional.

Front 1383

pasilaly

Back 1383

A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

Front 1384

prefloration

Back 1384

Æstivation.

Front 1385

Metastasis

Back 1385

a spiritual change, as during baptism.

Front 1386

trophosperm

Back 1386

The placenta.

Front 1387

humbuggery

Back 1387

The practice of imposition.

Front 1388

Ecphonema

Back 1388

a breaking out with some interjectional particle.

Front 1389

Caudicula

Back 1389

a slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

Front 1390

presumingly

Back 1390

Confidently; arrogantly.

Front 1391

withamite

Back 1391

A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

Front 1392

Archonts

Back 1392

the group including man alone.

Front 1393

Pancratium

Back 1393

an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Front 1394

skiffling

Back 1394

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

Front 1395

interpose

Back 1395

To be or come between.

Front 1396

munificate

Back 1396

To enrich.

Front 1397

hatchettite

Back 1397

Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.

Front 1398

metaphrastical

Back 1398

Close, or literal.

Front 1399

autostylic

Back 1399

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

Front 1400

intonate

Back 1400

To thunder.

Front 1401

Neocomian

Back 1401

of or pertaining to the lower greensand.

Front 1402

scapolite

Back 1402

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

Front 1403

recreant

Back 1403

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.

Front 1404

chalazion

Back 1404

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

Front 1405

Teleozoic

Back 1405

having tissued composed of cells.

Front 1406

Exantlate

Back 1406

to exhaust or wear out.

Front 1407

persolve

Back 1407

To pay wholly, or fully.

Front 1408

Complicant

Back 1408

overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

Front 1409

catallacta

Back 1409

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.

Front 1410

corylopsis

Back 1410

Small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.

Front 1411

famulist

Back 1411

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

Front 1412

trimerous

Back 1412

Having the parts in threes.

Front 1413

Halieutics

Back 1413

a treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.

Front 1414

Stramazoun

Back 1414

a direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.

Front 1415

Wishtonwish

Back 1415

the prairie dog.

Front 1416

sportulary

Back 1416

Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.

Front 1417

gaylussite

Back 1417

A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

Front 1418

Coruscate

Back 1418

to glitter in flashes; to flash.

Front 1419

ennation

Back 1419

The ninth segment in insects.

Front 1420

Crangonidae

Back 1420

shrimps.

Front 1421

suberous

Back 1421

Having a corky texture.

Front 1422

Rubricate

Back 1422

marked with red.

Front 1423

Efflagitate

Back 1423

to ask urgently.

Front 1424

expletive

Back 1424

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

Front 1425

swingeing

Back 1425

Huge; very large.

Front 1426

polymnite

Back 1426

A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so disposed as to represent rivers, marshes, etc.

Front 1427

Undigenous

Back 1427

generated by water.

Front 1428

maltese cross

Back 1428

A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.

Front 1429

warkloom

Back 1429

A tool; an implement.

Front 1430

orthology

Back 1430

The right description of things.

Front 1431

Dispense

Back 1431

to compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Front 1432

Paragram

Back 1432

a pun.

Front 1433

flummery

Back 1433

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

Front 1434

velleity

Back 1434

The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

Front 1435

Coromandel

Back 1435

the west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the bay of bengal.

Front 1436

Delenifical

Back 1436

assuaging pain.

Front 1437

flagitate

Back 1437

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Front 1438

spiroylous

Back 1438

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.

Front 1439

Menopome

Back 1439

the hellbender.

Front 1440

levorotation

Back 1440

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.

Front 1441

Crotchet

Back 1441

to play music in measured time.

Front 1442

columbiad

Back 1442

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.

Front 1443

epistilbite

Back 1443

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

Front 1444

knee-crooking

Back 1444

Obsequious; fawning; cringing.

Front 1445

Phreatic

Back 1445

subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.

Front 1446

Manoscopy

Back 1446

the science of the determination of the density of vapors and gases.

Front 1447

Dragoman

Back 1447

an interpreter; -- so called in the levant and other parts of the east.

Front 1448

ribroast

Back 1448

To beat soundly.

Front 1449

conversant

Back 1449

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.

Front 1450

Hair-salt

Back 1450

a variety of native epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

Front 1451

promptuary

Back 1451

Of or pertaining to preparation.

Front 1452

wretchless

Back 1452

Reckless; hence, disregarded.

Front 1453

Snattock

Back 1453

a chip; a slice.

Front 1454

hoveling

Back 1454

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.

Front 1455

Disjoint

Back 1455

difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Front 1456

departure

Back 1456

Division; separation; putting away.

Front 1457

Favoredness

Back 1457

appearance.

Front 1458

frequence

Back 1458

A crowd; a throng; a concourse.

Front 1459

concupiscent

Back 1459

Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.

Front 1460

saporific

Back 1460

Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.

Front 1461

effrenation

Back 1461

Unbridled license; unruliness.

Front 1462

Incoacted

Back 1462

not compelled; unconstrained.

Front 1463

Antiphysical

Back 1463

relieving flatulence; carminative.

Front 1464

pediculation

Back 1464

Phthiriasis.

Front 1465

Huckaback

Back 1465

a kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

Front 1466

Chaptrel

Back 1466

an impost.

Front 1467

ceratodus

Back 1467

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.

Front 1468

befogged

Back 1468

Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.

Front 1469

empirically

Back 1469

By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.

Front 1470

Emboguing

Back 1470

the mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.

Front 1471

calender

Back 1471

To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.

Front 1472

Cycadofilicales

Back 1472

an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the devonian: seed ferns.

Front 1473

ruptuary

Back 1473

One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.

Front 1474

Blackpoll

Back 1474

a warbler of the united states (dendroica striata).

Front 1475

pessulus

Back 1475

A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

Front 1476

Siserary

Back 1476

a hard blow.

Front 1477

anastaltic

Back 1477

Styptic.

Front 1478

edingtonite

Back 1478

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

Front 1479

Subaction

Back 1479

the act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.

Front 1480

Procession

Back 1480

to ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.

Front 1481

caponiere

Back 1481

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Front 1482

demilune

Back 1482

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.

Front 1483

Glabrous

Back 1483

smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

Front 1484

Bullfice

Back 1484

a kind of fungus. see puffball.

Front 1485

avoidance

Back 1485

The act of annulling; annulment.

Front 1486

incubous

Back 1486

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.

Front 1487

spattling-poppy

Back 1487

A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

Front 1488

bulldoze

Back 1488

To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

Front 1489

foreclose

Back 1489

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

Front 1490

tysonite

Back 1490

A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

Front 1491

Atticize

Back 1491

to side with the athenians.

Front 1492

Urticate

Back 1492

to sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

Front 1493

Heckimal

Back 1493

the european blue titmouse (parus cœruleus).

Front 1494

armozine

Back 1494

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.

Front 1495

discomplexion

Back 1495

To change the complexion or hue of.

Front 1496

peasweep

Back 1496

The pewit, or lapwing.

Front 1497

gieseckite

Back 1497

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.

Front 1498

redargue

Back 1498

To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.

Front 1499

arietation

Back 1499

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.

Front 1500

Knoppern

Back 1500

a kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

Front 1501

Colonical

Back 1501

Colonical

Front 1502

protactic

Back 1502

Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.

Front 1503

Biggonnet

Back 1503

a cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

Front 1504

cadaster

Back 1504

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.

Front 1505

Agueweed

Back 1505

a gentian of east north america having clusters of bristly blue flowers.

Front 1506

epagogic

Back 1506

Inductive.

Front 1507

hidrotic

Back 1507

Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.

Front 1508

tectology

Back 1508

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.

Front 1509

allision

Back 1509

The act of dashing against, or striking upon.

Front 1510

Accension

Back 1510

the act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

Front 1511

Insitiency

Back 1511

freedom from thirst.

Front 1512

Roquelaure

Back 1512

a cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.

Front 1513

dialogite

Back 1513

Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.

Front 1514

focillate

Back 1514

To nourish.

Front 1515

Transcur

Back 1515

to run or rove to and fro.

Front 1516

tinternell

Back 1516

A certain old dance.

Front 1517

Outrider

Back 1517

a summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.

Front 1518

distract

Back 1518

Separated; drawn asunder.

Front 1519

Lambative

Back 1519

a medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.

Front 1520

sutteeism

Back 1520

The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

Front 1521

ceraunoscope

Back 1521

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.

Front 1522

Ecphasis

Back 1522

an explicit declaration.

Front 1523

Kindliness

Back 1523

natural inclination; natural course.

Front 1524

Marcescent

Back 1524

withering without falling off; fading; decaying.

Front 1525

Feuterer

Back 1525

a dog keeper.

Front 1526

butterbump

Back 1526

The European bittern.

Front 1527

Auchenium

Back 1527

the part of the neck nearest the back.

Front 1528

heavy-laden

Back 1528

Burdened by cares.

Front 1529

anthropomorphite

Back 1529

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity.

Front 1530

emphyteusis

Back 1530

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.

Front 1531

gavelkind

Back 1531

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.

Front 1532

Fomalhaut

Back 1532

a star of the first magnitude, in the constellation piscis australis, or southern fish.

Front 1533

Tethydan

Back 1533

a tunicate.

Front 1534

pompelmous

Back 1534

A shaddock, esp. one of large size.

Front 1535

pissabed

Back 1535

A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

Front 1536

Brancard

Back 1536

a litter on which a person may be carried.

Front 1537

matfelon

Back 1537

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

Front 1538

eleusine

Back 1538

A genus of annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.

Front 1539

Prodition

Back 1539

disclosure; treachery; treason.

Front 1540

proceleusmatic

Back 1540

A foot consisting of four short syllables.

Front 1541

Extruction

Back 1541

a building up; construction.

Front 1542

bockland

Back 1542

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.

Front 1543

Frenzy-free

Back 1543

having passions unrestrained by reason.

Front 1544

protomerite

Back 1544

The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.

Front 1545

bayadere

Back 1545

A female dancer in the East Indies.

Front 1546

Estaminet

Back 1546

a café, or room in a café, in which smoking is allowed.

Front 1547

Bluff-headed

Back 1547

built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Front 1548

catamite

Back 1548

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

Front 1549

partheniad

Back 1549

A poem in honor of a virgin.

Front 1550

Trutination

Back 1550

the act of weighing.

Front 1551

Muticous

Back 1551

without a point or pointed process; blunt.

Front 1552

follicle

Back 1552

A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

Front 1553

rhadamanthus

Back 1553

One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Front 1554

presidiary

Back 1554

A guard.

Front 1555

brochantite

Back 1555

A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

Front 1556

Hornwrack

Back 1556

a bryozoan of the genus flustra.

Front 1557

mammonism

Back 1557

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.

Front 1558

Dedecorous

Back 1558

disgraceful; unbecoming.

Front 1559

amphigene

Back 1559

Leucite.

Front 1560

Proctucha

Back 1560

a division of turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.

Front 1561

copenhagen

Back 1561

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Front 1562

insolence

Back 1562

The quality of being unusual or novel.

Front 1563

Embonpoint

Back 1563

plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Front 1564

Cathedrated

Back 1564

relating to the chair or office of a teacher.

Front 1565

Triquetrum

Back 1565

one of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. see cuneiform (b).

Front 1566

Minorite

Back 1566

a franciscan friar.

Front 1567

gibbsite

Back 1567

A hydrate of alumina.

Front 1568

insuccation

Back 1568

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.

Front 1569

dopplerite

Back 1569

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Front 1570

gieseckite

Back 1570

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.

Front 1571

clapperboard

Back 1571

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.

Front 1572

Diabaterial

Back 1572

passing over the borders.

Front 1573

quartering

Back 1573

Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.

Front 1574

triclinic

Back 1574

Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.

Front 1575

Tachydidaxy

Back 1575

a short or rapid method of instructing.

Front 1576

Pseudotinea

Back 1576

the bee moth, or wax moth (galleria).

Front 1577

Orthomorphic

Back 1577

having the right form.

Front 1578

delitigation

Back 1578

Chiding; brawl.

Front 1579

Munificate

Back 1579

to enrich.

Front 1580

Chevisance

Back 1580

achievement; deed; performance.

Front 1581

emerited

Back 1581

Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.

Front 1582

Ledgment

Back 1582

a string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.

Front 1583

Procerite

Back 1583

the segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of crustacea.

Front 1584

Voussoir

Back 1584

one of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

Front 1585

incorporate

Back 1585

To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with.

Front 1586

gold-of-pleasure

Back 1586

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.

Front 1587

Bluestocking

Back 1587

a literary lady; a female pedant.

Front 1588

Leiotrichous

Back 1588

having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

Front 1589

Eteostic

Back 1589

a kind of chronogram.

Front 1590

frustraneous

Back 1590

Vain; useless; unprofitable.

Front 1591

pyromorphite

Back 1591

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.

Front 1592

hypodermic

Back 1592

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

Front 1593

downweed

Back 1593

Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

Front 1594

Vadantes

Back 1594

an extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

Front 1595

ditroite

Back 1595

An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elæolite, and sodalite.

Front 1596

utterance

Back 1596

The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

Front 1597

Illaqueate

Back 1597

to insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.

Front 1598

Runcinate

Back 1598

pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

Front 1599

prescribe

Back 1599

To give directions; to dictate.

Front 1600

Ravening

Back 1600

eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Front 1601

Schediasm

Back 1601

cursory writing on a loose sheet.

Front 1602

Olibanum

Back 1602

the fragrant gum resin of various species of boswellia; oriental frankincense.

Front 1603

Ceratopteris

Back 1603

a genus of water ferns.

Front 1604

tentative

Back 1604

An essay; a trial; an experiment.

Front 1605

fettling

Back 1605

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.

Front 1606

peridium

Back 1606

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

Front 1607

cephalaspis

Back 1607

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.

Front 1608

Ultroneous

Back 1608

spontaneous; voluntary.

Front 1609

Psellism

Back 1609

indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

Front 1610

blendwater

Back 1610

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.

Front 1611

Inconcoction

Back 1611

the state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity.

Front 1612

syncategorematic

Back 1612

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

Front 1613

Acridotheres

Back 1613

a genus of birds comprising the mynas.

Front 1614

misfashion

Back 1614

To form wrongly.

Front 1615

axiology

Back 1615

The study of values and value judgments.

Front 1616

corsepresent

Back 1616

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.

Front 1617

Ratiocination

Back 1617

the process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.

Front 1618

ragguled

Back 1618

Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

Front 1619

agraphia

Back 1619

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

Front 1620

mazarine

Back 1620

A forcemeat entrée.

Front 1621

Exercent

Back 1621

practicing; professional.

Front 1622

bloedite

Back 1622

A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

Front 1623

stag-evil

Back 1623

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

Front 1624

Snattock

Back 1624

a chip; a slice.

Front 1625

High-hoe

Back 1625

the european green woodpecker or yaffle.

Front 1626

siderated

Back 1626

Planet-struck; blasted.

Front 1627

strathspey

Back 1627

A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.

Front 1628

Circumstant

Back 1628

standing or placed around; surrounding.

Front 1629

bee balm

Back 1629

A perennial herb (Monarda fistulosa) of North America.

Front 1630

quemeful

Back 1630

Kindly; merciful.

Front 1631

Light-minded

Back 1631

unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.

Front 1632

Despisingly

Back 1632

contemptuously.

Front 1633

ten-pounder

Back 1633

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

Front 1634

biconjugate

Back 1634

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.

Front 1635

Galericulate

Back 1635

covered as with a hat or cap.

Front 1636

faldistory

Back 1636

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.

Front 1637

amoneste

Back 1637

To admonish.

Front 1638

melampode

Back 1638

The black hellebore.

Front 1639

garreted

Back 1639

Protected by turrets.

Front 1640

woolhead

Back 1640

The buffel duck.

Front 1641

websterite

Back 1641

A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

Front 1642

meniscus

Back 1642

A crescent.

Front 1643

provexity

Back 1643

Great advance in age.

Front 1644

decussative

Back 1644

Intersecting at acute angles.

Front 1645

frumentarious

Back 1645

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.

Front 1646

arctiidae

Back 1646

A family comprising the tiger moths.

Front 1647

sugescent

Back 1647

Of or pertaining to sucking.

Front 1648

irrorate

Back 1648

Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand.

Front 1649

elasmosaurus

Back 1649

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

Front 1650

Subdolous

Back 1650

sly; crafty; cunning; artful.

Front 1651

Coddymoddy

Back 1651

a gull in the plumage of its first year.

Front 1652

facinorous

Back 1652

Atrociously wicked.

Front 1653

muscivora-forficata

Back 1653

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.

Front 1654

hebetate

Back 1654

Obtuse; dull.

Front 1655

arianrod

Back 1655

A goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.

Front 1656

mammonism

Back 1656

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.

Front 1657

dolichotis

Back 1657

A genus of rodents including the maras.

Front 1658

Filander

Back 1658

a species of kangaroo (macropus brunii), inhabiting new guinea.

Front 1659

bottomry

Back 1659

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.

Front 1660

malacolite

Back 1660

A variety of pyroxene.

Front 1661

enfeloned

Back 1661

Rendered fierce or frantic.

Front 1662

smegmatic

Back 1662

Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

Front 1663

torbernite

Back 1663

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.

Front 1664

hanselines

Back 1664

A sort of breeches.

Front 1665

Alabastrum

Back 1665

a flower bud.

Front 1666

jeremiade

Back 1666

A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.

Front 1667

leonurus

Back 1667

A genus of stout Old World herbs having cut-lobed leaves and flowers in whorls.

Front 1668

ditionary

Back 1668

Under rule; subject; tributary.

Front 1669

procinct

Back 1669

A state of complete readiness for action.

Front 1670

Hemimorphic

Back 1670

having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.

Front 1671

osmazome

Back 1671

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.

Front 1672

transisthmian

Back 1672

Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.

Front 1673

sarcology

Back 1673

That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.

Front 1674

vesiculata

Back 1674

The campanularian medusæ.

Front 1675

ectrotic

Back 1675

Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

Front 1676

quadriga

Back 1676

A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

Front 1677

asterias

Back 1677

A genus of echinoderms.

Front 1678

buttonweed

Back 1678

The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.

Front 1679

esparcet

Back 1679

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

Front 1680

platanist

Back 1680

The soosoo.

Front 1681

epichorial

Back 1681

In or of the country.

Front 1682

Exestuate

Back 1682

to be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.

Front 1683

Bundobust

Back 1683

system; discipline.

Front 1684

Metamorphose

Back 1684

to change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

Front 1685

chalybite

Back 1685

Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.

Front 1686

hazelwort

Back 1686

The asarabacca.

Front 1687

cauponize

Back 1687

To sell wine or victuals.

Front 1688

schediasm

Back 1688

Cursory writing on a loose sheet.

Front 1689

making-up

Back 1689

The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.

Front 1690

Abodance

Back 1690

an omen; a portending.

Front 1691

obequitate

Back 1691

To ride about.

Front 1692

Lymphated

Back 1692

frightened into madness; raving.

Front 1693

Stupration

Back 1693

violation of chastity by force; rape.

Front 1694

Hystricine

Back 1694

like or pertaining to the porcupines.

Front 1695

Long-tongue

Back 1695

the wryneck.

Front 1696

thoroughwax

Back 1696

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.

Front 1697

Sherardize

Back 1697

to subject to the process of vapor galvanizing (which see, below).

Front 1698

macowanites

Back 1698

A stout-stemmed genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely.

Front 1699

Cassideous

Back 1699

helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

Front 1700

matter-of-fact

Back 1700

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

Front 1701

brazenly

Back 1701

In a bold, impudent manner.

Front 1702

gelastic

Back 1702

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

Front 1703

Thetical

Back 1703

laid down; absolute or positive, as a law.

Front 1704

effascination

Back 1704

A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.

Front 1705

phosphene

Back 1705

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.

Front 1706

Crocodility

Back 1706

a caption or sophistical mode of arguing.

Front 1707

cornicular

Back 1707

A secretary or clerk.

Front 1708

pruritus

Back 1708

Itching.

Front 1709

calliphoridae

Back 1709

A natural family comprising the blowflies.

Front 1710

esurient

Back 1710

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.

Front 1711

lechanorales

Back 1711

A category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia.

Front 1712

subhumerate

Back 1712

To place the shoulders under; to bear.

Front 1713

Nauscopy

Back 1713

the power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

Front 1714

Passement

Back 1714

lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.

Front 1715

cosening

Back 1715

Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.

Front 1716

amphiscians

Back 1716

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.

Front 1717

deintevous

Back 1717

Rare; excellent; costly.

Front 1718

Breakstone

Back 1718

any of various plants of the genus saxifraga.

Front 1719

lafayette

Back 1719

The dollar fish.

Front 1720

postfurca

Back 1720

One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.

Front 1721

Philathea

Back 1721

an international, interdenominational organization of bible classes of young women.

Front 1722

mustelus

Back 1722

A genus of sharks including certain of the smooth dogfishes.

Front 1723

Thymiatechny

Back 1723

the art of employing perfumes in medicine.

Front 1724

fahlunite

Back 1724

A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.

Front 1725

Mangonize

Back 1725

to furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.

Front 1726

margaritaceous

Back 1726

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

Front 1727

weigelia

Back 1727

A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.

Front 1728

sarcolemma

Back 1728

The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

Front 1729

adiaphorist

Back 1729

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.

Front 1730

Ramagious

Back 1730

wild; not tame.

Front 1731

Contabescent

Back 1731

wasting away gradually.

Front 1732

malabar kino

Back 1732

The reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus, used in medicine and tanning etc

Front 1733

absistence

Back 1733

A standing aloof.

Front 1734

mattamore

Back 1734

A subterranean repository for wheat.

Front 1735

cosening

Back 1735

Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.

Front 1736

Cockshead

Back 1736

a leguminous herb (onobrychis caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

Front 1737

Mystacal

Back 1737

of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.

Front 1738

Thylacine

Back 1738

the zebra wolf. see under wolf.

Front 1739

Sodality

Back 1739

a fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

Front 1740

morigerate

Back 1740

Obedient.

Front 1741

trinitrophenol

Back 1741

Picric acid.

Front 1742

testicardines

Back 1742

A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

Front 1743

Beneficiate

Back 1743

to reduce (ores).

Front 1744

Muckerer

Back 1744

a miser; a niggard.

Front 1745

sheepbiter

Back 1745

One who practices petty thefts.

Front 1746

trochilus

Back 1746

A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.

Front 1747

odocoileus

Back 1747

A genus of North American deer.

Front 1748

agrimony

Back 1748

A genus of plants of the Rose family.

Front 1749

fourrier

Back 1749

A harbinger.

Front 1750

Diopside

Back 1750

a crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

Front 1751

pendence

Back 1751

Slope; inclination.

Front 1752

animadversion

Back 1752

The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.

Front 1753

Diallage

Back 1753

a dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

Front 1754

sylvanite

Back 1754

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.

Front 1755

Self-one

Back 1755

secret.

Front 1756

Ingeminate

Back 1756

to redouble or repeat; to reiterate.

Front 1757

vindicate

Back 1757

To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

Front 1758

Futility

Back 1758

the quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

Front 1759

initiate

Back 1759

Unpracticed; untried; new.

Front 1760

creasing

Back 1760

A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

Front 1761

cynarrhodium

Back 1761

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

Front 1762

roscoelite

Back 1762

A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.

Front 1763

Saxicolous

Back 1763

growing on rocks.

Front 1764

antiphysical

Back 1764

Relieving flatulence; carminative.

Front 1765

anconeus

Back 1765

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Front 1766

duplexer

Back 1766

A device which switches electronic circuitry so that a radio antenna can function as either a transmitting or receiving antenna.

Front 1767

bicrural

Back 1767

Having two legs.

Front 1768

vagissate

Back 1768

To caper or frolic.

Front 1769

hypethral

Back 1769

Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building.

Front 1770

fessitude

Back 1770

Weariness.

Front 1771

oreography

Back 1771

The science of mountains; orography.

Front 1772

daubreelite

Back 1772

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Front 1773

clipping

Back 1773

The act of embracing.

Front 1774

Limenitis

Back 1774

a genus comprising mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars.

Front 1775

phillipsite

Back 1775

A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.

Front 1776

Botryose

Back 1776

having the form of a cluster of grapes.

Front 1777

Dactylopterous

Back 1777

having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.

Front 1778

Chopping

Back 1778

stout or plump; large.

Front 1779

Ossifrage

Back 1779

the lammergeir.