A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from theroasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thencecalled niopo tree.
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Niopo
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Sphene
A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of ayellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium andcalcium; titanite.
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Nonmetal
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with themetals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basicproperties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine arenonmetals.
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Absurd
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposedto manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of commonsense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, anabsurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope.p. 9
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Bepaint
To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.
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Hydraulics
That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats offluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers andcanals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its useas a prime mover, and the like.
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Stridulous
Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne.The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow.Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, inchildren, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, andmarked by crowing or stridulous breathing.
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Ridgeband
The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, andsupports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.Halliwell.
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Toluric
Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomericcrystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives ofglycocoll.
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Inspirable
Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable;respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.
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Boncilate
A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc.,hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
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Centrobaric
Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of findingit. Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose ofmeasuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a lineor surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle thatevery figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about suchan axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by thelength of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes calledtheorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guldinus's properties. SeeBarycentric calculus, under Calculus.
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Quilt
Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirtworn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton,etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outerbed cover.The beds were covered with magnificent quilts. Arbuthnot.
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Minimum
The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in agiven case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant:maximum.
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Gaur
An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of largesize and an untamable disposition. [Spelt also gour.]
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Charterhouse
A well known public school and charitable foundation in thebuilding once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
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Rounceval
Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown atRoncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes. [Obs.]
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Bloody flux
The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge fromthe bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
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Martel de fer
A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the headpointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor.Fairholt.
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Batavian
Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe;or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given toHolland by the French after its conquest in 1795.