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Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned,

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Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.

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  • MOUNTABLE
    Such as can be mounted.
  • FORMALITY
    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
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • MOUNTING
    1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • DARKEN
    Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • MOUNTAINOUS
    1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
  • MOUNTAINOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being mountainous.
  • SCIOPTIC
    Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned,
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • TURNINGNESS
    The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • TURNING
    The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
  • CAMERADE
    See COMRADE,
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • TURN-SICK
    Giddy. Bacon.
  • READILY
    1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
  • TURNVEREIN
    A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • RE-TURN
    To turn again.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.

 

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