The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affectionor kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artfulcaresses; cajolery; allurement.Cowering low with blandishment. Milton.Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.
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Blandishment
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Water flannel
A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of aEuropean fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
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Lunatic
A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who haslucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.Shak.
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Antiguggler
A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of abottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment orcausing a gurgling noise.
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Aldebaran
A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye ofTaurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called theHyades.Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia'schair. Spenser.
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Maneless
Having no mane. Maneless lion (Zoöl.), a variety of the lionhaving a short, inconspicuous mane. It inhabits Arabia and adjacentcountries.
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Jacchus
The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name wasalso applied to other species of the same genus.
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Ipecacuanha
The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (CephaëlisIpecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself;also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used asa substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac(Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), thebastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulatedipecac (Richardsonia scabra).
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Polysynthesis
The formation of a word by the combination of several simplewords, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.Latham.
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Carapace
The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise,or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
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Sexagesimal
Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimalfractions or numbers (Arith.
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Muscling
Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.]A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well ascoloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
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Coincident
Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous;concurrent; -- followed by with.Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, andcoincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined man. South.
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Neaped
Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it willnot float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.
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Blue jay
The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura,cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
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Oyster
Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They areusually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallowwater along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth ofrivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the Americanoyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
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Esodic
Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to thespinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.
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Disorient
To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east;to cause to lose one's bearings. [R.] Bp. Warburton.
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Volumetric
Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetricanalysis (Chem.), that system of the quantitative analysis ofsolutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions ofreagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the analysisof gases by volume, as by the eudiometer.
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Reversing
Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of beingreversed. Reversing engine, a steam engine having a reversing gear bymeans of which it can be made to run in either direction at will.-- Reversing gear (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction ofrotation at will.