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1	pyogenic	Producing or generating pus.
2	pummel	Same as Pommel.
3	marine	1. Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine. 2. (Geol.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. [Obs.] -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicants of marines. -- Marine engine (Mech.), a steam engine for propelling a vessel. -- Marine glue. See under Glue. -- Marine insurance, insurance against the perils of the sea, including also risks of fire, piracy, and barratry. -- Marine interest, interest at any rate agreed on for money lent upon respondentia and bottomry bonds. -- Marine law. See under Law. -- Marine league, three geographical miles. -- Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships. Mc Elrath. -- Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard. -- Marine store, a store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a junk shop. [Eng.] 1. A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy. 2. The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine. 3. A picture representing some marine subject. Tell that to the marines, an expression of disbelief, the marines being regarded by sailors as credulous. [Colloq.]
4	fecula	Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
5	overcunning	Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
6	enforcement	1. The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak. 2. A giving force to; a putting in execution. Enforcement of strict military discipline. Palfrey. 3. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied. The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.
7	fuzz	To make drunk. [Obs.] Wood. Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball. To fly off in minute particles.
8	philopena	A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.] Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten.
9	zone	1. A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic] An embroidered zone surrounds her waist. Dryden. Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound. Collins. 2. (Geog.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. Note: The zones are five: the torrid zone, extending from tropic to tropic 46º 56min, or 23º 28min on each side of the equator; two temperate or variable zones, situated between the tropics and the polar circles; and two frigid zones, situated between the polar circles and the poles. Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades. Bancroft. 3. (Math.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.) 4. (Nat. Hist.) (a) A band or stripe extending around a body. (b) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth. 5. (Crystallog.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections. 6. Circuit; circumference. [R.] Milton. Abyssal zone. (Phys. Geog.) See under Abyssal. -- Zone axis (Crystallog.), a straight line passing through the center of a crystal, to which all the planes of a given zone are parallel. To girdle; to encircle. [R.] Keats.
10	oxonate	A salt of oxonic acid.
11	forelock	1. The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head. 2. (Mech.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun. Forelock bolt, a bolt retained by a key, gib, or cotter passing through a slot. -- Forelock hook (Rope Making), a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight. -- To take time, or occasion, by the forelock, to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity. Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Swift. On occasion's forelock watchful wait. Milton.
12	countermure	A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles. To fortify with a wall behind another wall. [R.] Kyd.
13	cullet	Broken glass for remelting. A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).
14	install	1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. 2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president. Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak.
15	dust-point	An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).
16	tabid	Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"idly, adv. -- Tab"idness, n.
17	superconsequence	Remote consequence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
18	excogitation	The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
19	peschito	See Peshito.
20	protuberant	Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Protu"berant*ly, adv.
21	sinistrorsal	Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.
22	pyroxyle	See Pyroxylic, -yl.
23	penknife	A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
24	betrustment	The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [Obs.] Chipman.
25	misdoubtful	Misgiving; hesitating. [Obs.] "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
26	epipteric	Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n. The epipteric bone.
27	polyglottous	Speaking many languages; polyglot. [R.] "The polyglottous tribes of America." Max Müller.
28	juncite	A fossil rush.
29	hesperidene	An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
30	contraindicant	Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.
31	unpen	To release from a pen or from confinement. "If a man unpens another's water." Blackstone.
32	lifesome	Animated; sprightly. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Life"some*ness, n.
33	rong	imp. & p. p. of Ring. Chaucer. Rung (of a ladder). [Obs.] Chaucer.
34	experimentation	The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
35	sensualism	1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. 2. (Philos.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. 3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Krauth-Fleming.
36	debenture stock	The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament. [Eng.]
37	impart	1. To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden. 2. To obtain a share of; to partake of. [R.] Munday. 3. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose. Gentle lady, When I did first impart my love to you. Shak. Syn. -- To share; yield; confer; convey; grant; give; reveal; disclose; discover; divulge. See Communicate. 1. To give a part or share. He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none. Luke iii. 11. 2. To hold a conference or consultation. Blackstone.
38	climatological	Of or pertaining to climatology.
39	meadowwort	The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
40	revise	1. To look at again for the detection of errors; to reëxamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation. 2. (Print.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type. 3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary. The Revised Version of the Bible, a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized. 1. A review; a revision. Boyle. 2. (Print.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
41	mausolean	Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
42	foetus	Same as Fetus.
43	absinthism	The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.
44	ruddle	To raddle or twist. [Obs.] A riddle or sieve. [Obs.] Holland. A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher. To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge. "Their ruddled cheeks." Thackeray. A fair sheep newly ruddled. Lady M. W. Montagu.
45	taws	A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.] [Scot.] Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.
46	gaydiang	A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.
47	zoism	1. Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages. 2. (Biol.) A doctrine, now discarded, that the phenomena of life are due to a peculiar vital principle; the theory of vital force.
48	durene	A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
49	scripturalness	Quality of being scriptural.
50	maikong	A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
51	banshee	A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
52	iciness	The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.
53	championness	A female champion. Fairfax.
54	phonetics	1. The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology. 2. The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.
55	metrist	A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.
56	yachtsman	One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.
57	husky	Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. Dryden. Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
58	astylar	Without columns or pilasters. Weale.
59	baritone	See Barytone. 1. (Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice. 2. (Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. 1. (Mus.) (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. (b) A person having a voice of such range. (c) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused. 2. (Greek Gram.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
60	feodal	Feudal. See Feudal.
61	whichsoever	Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
62	wae	A wave. [Obs.] Spenser.
63	goloshe	See Galoche.
64	anachronic	Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
65	muscoid	Mosslike; resembling moss. A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
66	scath	Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also scathe.] But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak. To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irwing.
67	morphine	A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
68	rake-vein	See Rake, a mineral vein.
69	pyrexial	Of or pertaining to fever; feverish.
70	rupial	Of or pertaining to rupia.
71	intermobility	Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.
72	tribune	1. (Rom. Antiq.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls. Note: The tribunes were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, of whom there were from four to six in each legion. Other officers were also called tribunes; as, tribunes of the treasury, etc. 2. Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
73	rivality	1. Rivalry; competition. [Obs.] 2. Equality, as of right or rank. [Obs.] hak.
74	lawnd	See Laund.
75	manuducent	One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. [Obs.]
76	palped	Having a palpus.
77	apiece	Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.
78	assumpt	To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon. That which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.
79	stentorophonic	Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian. [Obs.] Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican. Derham.
80	punch	A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. -- Punch bowl, a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served. -- Roman punch, a punch frozen and served as an ice. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy. 1. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick. I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. Pepys. 2. One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch. To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow. A thrust or blow. [Colloq.] 1. A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die. 2. (Pile Driving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly. 3. A prop, as for the roof of a mine. Bell punch. See under Bell. -- Belt punch (Mach.), a punch, or punch pliers, for making holes for lacings in the ends of driving belts. -- Punch press. See Punching machine, under Punch, v. i. -- Punch pliers, pliers having a tubular, sharp-edged steel punch attached to one of the jaws, for perforating leather, paper, and the like. To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket. Punching machine, or Punching press, a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; -- called also punch press.
81	catopter	A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. [Obs.]
82	thermotensile	Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.
83	etherin	A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
84	individual	1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities. 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
85	senate	1. An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically: (a) (Anc. Rom.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass. Dr. W. Smith. (b) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. (c) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government. 2. The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. [Eng.] 3. In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. [U. S.] Senate chamber, a room where a senate meets when it transacts business. -- Senate house, a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.
86	circumgyratory	Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.
87	libament	Libation. [Obs.] Holland.
88	patois	A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.
89	yieldable	Disposed to yield or comply. [R.] -- Yield"ableness, n. [R.] Bp. Hall.
90	engrailment	1. The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C. 2. (Her.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.
91	helmeted	Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet- shaped part; galeate.
92	rubify	To redden. [R.] "Waters rubifying." Chaucer.
93	cankeredly	Fretfully; spitefully.
94	brachypinacoid	A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
95	lipochrin	A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.
96	subbrachial	Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
97	bedtick	A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.
98	rulable	That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule. Bacon.
99	mesmerization	The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.
100	repugner	One who repugns.

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