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Ketmie
The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated forthe acid of their mucilage. [Written also ketmia.]
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Sleuthhound
A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, abloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]
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Bitterroot
A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but withfleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho,Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains andriver. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.
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Blockhead
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumberin his head. Pope.
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Hanaper
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for thepacking and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an officeof the English court of chancery in which writs relating to thebusiness of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently keptin a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.
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Plattdeutsch
The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, takencollectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.
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Capture
To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, orstratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured. W. Ivring.
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Cachinnation
Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hystericalor maniacal affections.Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W.Scott.
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Chevron
One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broadbands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexterand sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
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Varisse
An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses,different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequentlyinjuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size.Craig.
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Medicine
A physician. [Obs.] Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so calledamong the North American Indians, or in works relating to them.-- Medicine man (among the North American Indians), a person whoprofesses to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate theweather by the arts of magic.-- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversedcharacters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Romanphysicians to stamp the names of their medicines.
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Cointension
The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied torelations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension.Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations inrespect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.
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Macaw
Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteenspecies are known, all of them American. They are large and have avery long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around theeyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and stronglycontrasted.
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Idoneous
Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate. [R.]An ecclesiastical benefice . . . ought to be conferred on an idoneousperson. Ayliffe.
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Adopter
A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one ofwhich admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to anotherreceiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elasticvapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unitetwo vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written alsoadapter.]
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Projectile
A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time offlight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by animpelling force.
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Corrovaline
A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterizedby its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
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Genus
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; aclass more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactlydivided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts ofterms.
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Bivalve
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates orvalves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which isusually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closedby the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the innersurface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. SeeMollusca.