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Word Meanings - PLATOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things wound round. See Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square. Now, in the United States service, half

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men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things wound round. See Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square. Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

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    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
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    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
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    A nematoid worm.
  • FIREFLY
    Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • FIREARM
    A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
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    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
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    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
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    In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
  • FIRE-FANGED
    Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
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    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
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    Having different shapes or forms.
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    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
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    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
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    Having the form of resin.
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    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
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    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
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    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
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    In the form of scoria.
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  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

 

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