A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificiallyfrom certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it isvery different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.
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Dipropargyl
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Three-torque system of control
Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turningmoment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane orairship.
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Hectare
A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares,or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
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Galingale
A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromaticroots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer.Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.
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Philanthropinism
A system of education on so-called natural principles,attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.
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Thermotaxic
Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of temperaturein the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.
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Unhallowed
Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked.In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is eithernecessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
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Mishna
A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations ofScripture, forming the text of the Talmud. [Written also Mischna.]
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Veranda
An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house,forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sidesof the inner court. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
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Abolition
The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; anannulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition ofslavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees,ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.
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Puerco
A hog. Puerco beds (Geol.), a name given to certain stratabelonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in NorthwesternNew Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by theirmammalian remains.
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Merciless
Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animatebeings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant;merciless waves.The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak.
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American protective association
A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions bykeeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.P .A.
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Inchoation
Act of beginning; commencement; inception.The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would belooked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale.It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the mostelaborate finishing. I. Taylor.
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Historiographer
An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed ordesignated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by somegovernments upon historians of distinction.
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Shawl
A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or othertextile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loosecovering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of richshawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is wovenin pieces, which are sewed together.-- Shawl goat (Zoöl.), the Cashmere goat.
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Goniometer
An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles ofcrystals, or the inclination of planes. Contact, or Hand, goniometer,a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab)the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixedpoint, which is the center of the graduated circle or semicircle uponwhich the angle is read off.-- Reflecting goniometer, an instrument for measuring the angles ofcrystals by determining through what angular space the crystal mustbe turned so that two rays reflected from two surfaces successivelyshall have the same direction; -- called also Wollaston's goniometer,from the inventor.
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Oquassa
A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some ofthe lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.
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Ceratobranchia
A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the backpapilliform or branched organs serving as gills.
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Effeminacy
Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness,luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man;womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton.