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• CHARTOMETER
  An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
• INDUMENT
  Plumage; feathers.
• DIDINE
  Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
• CATHODE
  The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray , a
• ORYCTERE
  The aard-vark.
• COLEOPTERA
  An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles
• CARBONIZATION
  The act or process of carbonizing.
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• HOOPOE; HOOPOO
  A European bird of the genus Upupa , having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera. (more info) hop, F. huppe;
• MERILS
  A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.
• TERMINISM
  The doctrine held by the Terminists.
• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• GASTROTROCHA
  A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
• CIRCULET
  A circlet. Spenser.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• READER
  1. One who reads. Specifically: One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• PESTILENTLY
  In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively. "Above all measure pestilently noisome." Dr. H. More.
• SPOROPHORE
  A placenta. That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oöphore.
• CONSANGUINITY
  The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.
• LEPIDOPTERAL; LEPIDOPTEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.
• SETULOSE
  Having small bristles or setæ.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• PRESBYTERIAL
  Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.
• TENOSITIS
  Inflammation of a tendon.
• DOUBLE-HEADED
  Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail , a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.
• DORMANCY
  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
• POSTILLER
  See POSTILER
• PREMIER
  1. First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister. Camden. Swift. 2. Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
• EQUANIMITY
  Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.
• BITLESS
  Not having a bit or bridle.
• UNPEERABLE
  Incapable of having a peer, or equal.
• ETHNOGRAPHICALLY
  In an ethnographical manner.
• SHOTE
  A fish resembling the trout. Garew. 2. Etym:
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• GRUGRU WORM
  The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.
• MODENESE
  Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.
• DEL CREDERE
  An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency
• MUDFISH
  The European loach. The bowfin. The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species . See Lipedosiren. The mud minnow.
• WHIGGISH
  Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
• SAVE
  The herb sage, or salvia. Chaucer.
• CONTEXTURED
  Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. Carlyle.
• INVULNERABILITY
  Quality or state of being invulnerable.
• DILEMMA
  An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. Note: The following are instances of the dilemma. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be
• ELUCIDATOR
  One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
• SCOLYTID
  Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
• FELL
  imp. of Fall.
• HELLESPONTINE
  Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.
• METAVANADATE
  A salt of metavanadic acid.
• SEMSTER
  A seamster.
• TORMENTRESS
  A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• NUCLEOLUS
  A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan. Note: It was termed by Agassiz the entoblast. In the protozoa, where it may be situated on one side of the nucleus, it is sometimes called the endoplastule, and is supposed
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• MANNISH
  1. Resembling a human being in form or nature; human. Chaucer. But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature. Gower. 2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine. Chaucer. A woman impudent and mannish grown.
• MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR
  A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• RACK-RENTER
  1. One who is subjected to playing rack-rent. 2. One who exacts rack-rent.
• LOTTERY
  1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United
• UNDERBOARD
  Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.
• TARDILY
  In a tardy manner; slowly.
• IDEALITY
  The conceptive faculty. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
• OSTEOMANTY
  Divination by means of bones.
• PROFANATION
  1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• ESCHAROTIC
  Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.
• AZOGUE
  Lit.: Quicksilver; hence: pl.
• ANALOGICALNESS
  Quality of being analogical.
• GIBE
  To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift. (more info) Prov. F. giber, equiv. to F. jouer to play, Icel. geipa to talk
• PENFISH
  A squid.
• BLOWPOINT
  A child's game.
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• SCOTAL; SCOTALE
  The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.
• CRESS
  A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium
• THRUMWORT
  A kind of amaranth . Dr. Prior.
• HA-HA
  A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
• BRUSQUE
  Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style. (more info) perh. fr. L. labrusca wild ; or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim,
• ETHNOLOGIC; ETHNOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to ethnology.
• VISITER
  A visitor.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• INTERVISIBLE
  Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.
• BABILLARD
  The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.
• COUNTERFAISANCE
  See COUNTERFESANCE
• LUNATE; LUNATED
  Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.
• BRIDESMAN
  A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
• GEOLOGIZE
  To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist. During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire. Darwin.
• SMOOR
  
• SUBADUNCATE
  Somewhat hooked or curved.
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• IATROMATHEMATICIAN
  One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.
• FRIM
  Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous. "Frim pastures." Drayton.
• HIEROMNEMON
  1. The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. Liddel & Scott. 2. A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Liddel & Scott.
• MINIMUS
  The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes. (more info) 1. A being of the smallest size. Shak.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• WITHERNAM
  A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in
• MUREX
  A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.
• ZEEMAN EFFECT
  The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, first observed in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic
• DISGRUNTLE
  To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.