Same as Syllabication. Rush.Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity offorce. H. Sweet.
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Syllabification
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Bicuspid
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between thecanines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. SeeTooth, n.
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Blouse
A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, wornespecially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of anymaterial, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.
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Menace
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat orthreatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman.The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.
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Handicap
To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general,to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.
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Pagoda
A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerlycurrent in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and ahalf rupees.
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Hippuric
Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuricacid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present inthe urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in humanurine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid andglycocoll.
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Orthoptera
An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers,locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
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Consternation
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, andincapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay.The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attendthe stern reply. Pope.
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Manis
A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangularscales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on aroof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed onants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.
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Sociology
That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution,phenomena, and development of human society; social science. H.Spencer.
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Negligence
The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligenceor care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
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Sabbaton
A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a partof the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
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Triparted
Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- saidof the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.
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Longmynd rocks
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, andstates of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambriansystem; -- so called, because typically developed in the LongmyndHills, Shropshire.
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Offscouring
That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; thatwhich is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.
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Stearolic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetyleneseries, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a whitecrystalline substance, from oleïc acid.
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Homogeny
The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used tosupersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denoteany superinduced correspondence of position and structure in partsembryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy).Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and thewing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart inboth are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisenindependently since the divergence of both groups from auniventricular ancestor.
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Amphigen
An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- appliedby Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. [R.]
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Text hand
A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was thepractice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes ina smaller hand.