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A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building

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A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena. 3. A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • FLANK
    1. To border; to touch. Bp. Butler. 2. To be posted on the side.
  • RANGEMENT
    Arrangement. Waterland.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • FLANKER
    Etym: 1. To defend by lateral fortifications. Sir T. Herbert. 2. To attack sideways. Evelyn.
  • EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
    Effective. B. Jonson.
  • EFFECT
    1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
  • LOOKOUT
    1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • HEAVENLY
    1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true." Shak. 2. By the influence or agency of heaven. Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • EFFECTOR
    An effecter. Derham.
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • EFFECTUATE
    To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • ORANGEADE
    A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • CITRANGE
    A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • GRANGER
    1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
  • DERANGED
    Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.

 

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