To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; toetherealize.German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe,reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.
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Quackery
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; falsepretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
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Roam
To go from place to place without any certain purpose ordirection; to rove; to wander.He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer.Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak.
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Vingt et un
A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune ofeach player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards thatthe sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near toit.
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Carack
A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards andPortuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.]The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.
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Corndodger
A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a coveringof husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.
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Pitpan
A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of riversand lagoons in Central America. Squier.
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Seriema
A large South American bird (Dicholophus, or Cariama cristata)related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.
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Jibe
To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side ofa vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. SeeGybe.
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Uncrown
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, todiscrown; to dethrone.He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.Shak.
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Tartarize
To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar. [R.]Tartarized antimony (Med. Chem.), tartar emetic.
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Nonconductor
A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey ortransmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or whichtransmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is anonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors ofelectricity.
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Yearling
An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; --applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
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Inhibition
A stopping or checking of an already present action; arestraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestivefluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory centerby the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
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Llama
A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to thecamels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be adomesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as abeast of burden in the Andes.
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Imbitter
To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing;to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life thanshame South.Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
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Twilly
A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of arevolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy orwillying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil,n., 6, and Willy. Tomlinson.
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Flexion
Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension orconjugation; inflection.Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Prospectus
A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording aprospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of anunpublished literary work.
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Trimming
a. from Trim, v.The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort ofa party. Jeffrey.Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers areframed; a header. See Header. Knight.