10
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abactor |
[.] ABAC'TOR, n. [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] [.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two. |
135
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ablactate |
[.] ABLAC'TATE, v.t. [L. ablacto; from ab and lac, milk.] to wean from the breast. [Little used.] |
136
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ablactation |
[.] ABLACTA'TION, n. [L. ab and lae, milk. Lacto, to suckle.] [.] 1. In medical authors, the weaning of a child from the breast. [.] 2. Among ancient gardeners, a method of grafting in which the cion was not separated from the parent stock, till it was firmly united ... |
272
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abstract |
[.] ABSTRACT', v.t. [L. abstraho, to draw from or separate; from abs and traho, which is the Eng. draw. See Draw.] [.] 1. To draw from, or to separate; as to abstract an action from its evil effects; to abstract spirit from any substance by distillation; but in this ... |
273
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abstracted |
[.] ABSTRACT'ED, pp. Separated; refined; exalted; abstruse; absent in mind. |
274
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abstractedly |
[.] ABSTRACT'EDLY, adv. In a separate state, or in contemplation only. |
275
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abstractedness |
[.] ABSTRACT'EDNESS, n. the state of being abstracted. |
276
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abstracter |
[.] ABSTRACT'ER, n. One who makes an abstract, or summary. |
277
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abstracting |
[.] ABSTRACT'ING, ppr. Separating, making a summary. |
278
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abstraction |
[.] ABSTRAC'TION, n. [.] 1. The act of separating, or state of being separated. [.] 2. The operation of the mind when occupied by abstract ideas; as when we contemplate some particular part, or property of a complex object, as separate from the rest. Thus, when ... |
279
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abstractitious |
[.] ABSTRACTI'TIOUS particularly from vegetables, without fermentation. |
280
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abstractive |
[.] ABSTRACT'IVE, a. Having the power or quality of abstracting. [.] ABSTRACT'IVE, a. Abstracted, or drawn from other substances, |
281
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abstractly |
[.] AB'STRACTLY, adv. separately; absolutely; in a state or manner unconnected with any thing else; as, matter abstractly considered. |
282
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abstractness |
[.] AB'STRACTNESS, n. A separate state; a state of being in contemplation only, or not connected with any object. |
638
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act |
[.] ACT, v.i. [Gr., Lat. to urge, drive, lead, bring, do, perform, or in general to move, to exert force.] [.] 1. To exert power; as, the stomach acts upon food; the will acts upon the body in producing motion. [.] 2. To be in action or motion; to move [.] He hangs ... |
639
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acted |
[.] ACT'ED, pp. Done; performed; represented on the stage. |
640
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actian |
[.] AC'TIAN, a. Relating to Actium, a town and promontory of Epirus, as Actian games, which were instituted by Augustus, to celebrate his navel victory over Anthony, near that town, Sep. 2, B.C. 31. They were celebrated every five years. Hence, Actian years, reckoned ... |
641
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acting |
[.] ACT'ING, ppr. Doing; performing; behaving; representing the character of another. [.] ACT'ING, n. Action; act of performing a part of a play. |
642
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actinolite |
...re long, and incomplete, and sometimes extremely minute and even fibrous. Its prevailing color is green of different shades, or shaded with yellow or brown. There are several varieties, as the common, the massive, the acicular, the glassy, and the fibrous. [.] Actinolite ... |
643
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actinolitic |
[.] ACTINOLIT'IC, a. Like or pertaining to actinolite. |
644
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action |
[.] AC'TION, n. [L. actio. See Act.] [.] 1. Literally, a driving; hence, the state of acting or moving; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; or action is the effect of power exerted on one body by another; motion produced. Hence, action is ... |
645
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actionable |
[.] AC'TIONABLE, a. That will bear a suit, or for which an action at law may be sustained; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. |
646
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actionably |
[.] AC'TIONABLY, adv. In a manner that subjects to legal process. |
647
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actionary |
[.] AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, n. In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock. |
648
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actionist |
[.] AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, n. In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock. |
649
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active |
[.] ACT'IVE, a. [L. activus.] [.] 1. That has the power or quality of acting; that contains the principle of action, independent of any visible external force; as, attraction is an active power: or it may be defined, that communicates action or motion, opposed to passive, ... |
650
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actively |
[.] ACT'IVELY, adv. in an active manner; by action; nimbly; briskly; also in an active signification, as a word is used actively. |
651
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activeness |
[.] ACT'IVENESS, n. the quality of being active; the faculty of acting; nimbleness; quickness of motion; less used than activity. |
652
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activity |
[.] ACTIV'ITY, n. The quality of being active; the active faculty; nimbleness; agility; also the habit of diligent and vigorous pursuit of business; as, a man of activity. It is applied to persons or things. [.] Sphere of activity, is the whole space in which the virtue, ... |
653
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actor |
[.] ACT'OR, n. [.] 1. He that acts or performs; an active agent. [.] 2. He that represents a character or acts a part in a play; a stage player. [.] 3. Among civilians, an advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. |
654
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actress |
[.] ACT'RESS, n. A female who acts or performs, and especially, on the stage, or in a play. |
655
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actual |
[.] ACT'UAL, a. [.] 1. Real or effective, or that exists truly and absolutely; as, actual heat, opposed to that, which is virtual or potential; actual cautery, or the burning by a red-hot iron, opposed to a cautery or caustic application, that may produce the same effect ... |
656
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actuality |
[.] ACTUAL'ITY, n. Reality. |
657
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actually |
[.] ACT'UALLY, adv. In fact; really; in truth. |
658
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actuary |
[.] ACT'UARY, n. [L. actuarius.] [.] A register or clerk; a term of the civil law, and used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction; but in Europe used for a clerk or register generally. |
659
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actuate |
[.] ACT'UATE, a. Put in action. [Little used.] [.] ACT'UATE, v.t. [from act.] [.] To put into action; to move or incite to action; as, men are actuated by motives, or passions. It seems to have been used formerly in the sense of invigorate, noting increase ... |
660
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actuated |
[.] ACT'UATED, pp. Put in action; incited to action. |
661
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actuating |
[.] ACT'UATING, ppr. Putting in action; inciting to action. |
662
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actuation |
[.] ACTUA'TION, n. The state of being put in action; effectual operation. |
663
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actus |
[.] ACT'US, n. Among the Romans, a measure in building equal to 120 Roman feet. In agriculture, the length of one furrow. |
1215
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after-act |
[.] 'AFTER-ACT, n. A subsequent act. |
2481
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anfractuous |
[.] ANFRAC'TUOUS, a. [L. anfractus, of amb, about, and fractus, broken. See Break.] [.] Winding; full of windings and turnings; written less correctly, anfractuose. |
2482
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anfractuousness |
[.] ANFRAC'TUOUSNESS, n. A state of being full of windings and turnings. |
2702
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anteact |
[.] AN'TEACT, n. [ante and act.] A preceding act. |
3107
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apotactite |
[.] APOTAC'TITE, n. [Gr. from to renounce; to ordain.] [.] One of a sect of ancient christians, who, in imitation of the first believers, renounced all their effects and possessions. |
3540
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arefaction |
[.] AREFAC'TION, n. [L. arefacio, to dry, from aero.] The act of drying; the state of growing dry. |
4072
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assuefaction |
[.] ASSUEFAC'TION, n. [L. assuefacio.] The act of accustoming. [Not used.] |
4325
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attract |
[.] ATTRACT', v.t. [L. attraho, attractus, of ad and trako, to draw. See Drag and Draw.] [.] 1. To draw to; to cause to move towards, and unite with; as, electrical bodies attract straws, and light substances, by physical laws. [.] 2. To draw to or incline to unite ... |
4326
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attractability |
[.] ATTRACTABIL'ITY, n. The quality of being attractable, or of being subject to the law of attraction. |
4327
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attractable |
[.] ATTRACT'ABLE, a. That may be attracted; subject to attraction. |
4328
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attracted |
[.] ATTRACT'ED, pp. Drawn towards; invited; allured; engaged. |
4329
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attractic |
[.] ATTRACT'IC, |
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attractical |
[.] ATTRACT'ICAL, a. Having power to draw to. [Not used.] |
4331
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attractile |
[.] ATTRACT'ILE, a. That has power to attract. |
4332
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attracting |
[.] ATTRACT'ING, ppr. Drawing to or towards; inviting; alluring; engaging. |
4333
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attractingly |
[.] ATTRACT'INGLY, adv. In an attracting manner. |
4334
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attraction |
...1. The power in bodies which is supposed to draw them together; or the tendency or principle which inclines them to unite or cohere; called by Copernicus, appetence. [.] This power, principle or tendency in bodies to unite, is distinguished by philosophers into attraction ... |
4335
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attractive |
[.] ATTRACT'IVE, a. [.] 1. Having the quality of attracting; drawing to; as the attractive force of bodies. [.] 2. Drawing to by moral influence; alluring; inviting; engaging; as the attractive graces. [.] An attractive undertaking. |
4336
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attractively |
[.] ATTRACT'IVELY, adv. With the power of attracting, or drawing to. |
4337
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attractiveness |
[.] ATTRACT'IVENESS, n. The quality of being attractive, or engaging. |
4338
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attractor |
[.] ATTRACT'OR, n. The person or thing that attracts. |
5755
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benefaction |
[.] BENEFAC'TION, n. [L.benefacio, of bene, well, and facio, to make or do.] [.] 1. The act of conferring a benefit. [.] More generally, [.] 2. A benefit conferred, especially a charitable donation. |
5756
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benefactor |
[.] BENEFAC'TOR, n. He who confers a benefit, especially one who makes charitable contributions either for public institutions or for private use. |
5757
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benefactress |
[.] BENEFAC'TRESS, n. A female who confers a benefit. |
6092
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bibracteate |
[.] BIBRAC'TEATE, a. Double bracteate. |
7093
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bracte |
[.] BRACTE, n. [L. Ainswroth writes, bractea or brattea.] [.] In botany, a floral leaf, one of the seven fulcrums or props of plants. It differs from other leaves in shape and color, and is generally situated on the peduncle, so near the corol, as easily to be mistaken for ... |
7094
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bractea |
[.] BRAC'TEA |
7095
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bracteate |
[.] BRAC'TEATE, a. [from bractea.] Furnished with bractes. |
7096
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bracted |
[.] BRAC'TED, a. Furnished with bractes. |
7097
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bracteolate |
[.] BRAC'TEOLATE, a. Furnished with bracteoles. |
7098
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bracteole |
[.] BRAC'TEOLE, n. A little bract. |
8075
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calefaction |
[.] CALEFACTION, n. [.] 1. The act or operation of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by the communication of heat from other bodies. [.] 2. The state of being heated. |
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calefactive |
[.] CALEFACTIVE, |
8077
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calefactor |
[.] CALEFACTOR, a. [See Calefaction.] That makes warm or hot; that communicates heat. |
8819
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cataphract |
[.] CATAPHRACT, n. [.] 1. In the ancient military art, a piece of heavy defensive armor, formed of cloth or leather, strengthened with scales or links, used to defend the breast, or whole body, or even the horse as well as the rider. [.] 2. A horseman in complete ... |
8823
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cataract |
[.] CATARACT, n. [.] 1. A great fall of water over a precipice; as that of Niagara, of the Rhine, Danube and Nile. It is a cascade upon a great scale. [.] [.] The tremendous cataracts of America thundering in their solitudes. [.] 2. In medicine and surgery, an ... |
9276
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chamber-practice |
[.] CHAMBER-PRACTICE, |
9373
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charact |
[.] CHARACT, |
9374
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character |
[.] CHARACTER, n. [.] 1. A mark made by cutting or engraving, as on stone, metal or other hard material; hence, a mark or figure made with a pen or style, on paper, or other material used to contain writing; a letter, or figure used to form words, and communicate ideas. ... |
9375
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characteristic |
[.] CHARACTERISTIC, |
9376
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characteristical |
[.] CHARACTERISTICAL, a. That constitutes the character; that marks the peculiar, distinctive qualities of a person or thing. [.] [.] Generosity is often a characteristic virtue of a brave man. [.] [.] It is followed by of. [.] [.] Generosity is characteristic of ... |
9377
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characteristically |
[.] CHARACTERISTICALLY, adv. The state or qualities of being characteristic. |
9378
|
characterize |
[.] CHARACTERIZE, v.t. [.] 1. To give a character, or an account of the personal qualities of a man; to describe by peculiar qualities. [.] 2. To distinguish; to mark, or express the character; to exhibit the peculiar qualities of a person or thing; as, humility characterizes ... |
9379
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characterized |
[.] CHARACTERIZED, pp. Described or distinguished by peculiar qualities. |
9380
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characterizing |
[.] CHARACTERIZING, ppr. Describing or distinguishing by peculiar qualities. |
9381
|
characterless |
[.] CHARACTERLESS, a. Destitute of any peculiar character. |
9382
|
charactery |
[.] CHARACTERY, n. Impression; mark; distinction. |
9645
|
chilifactive |
[.] CHILIFACTIVE. [See Chylifactive.] |
9933
|
chylifaction |
[.] CHYLIFACTION, n. The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies. |
9934
|
chylifactive |
[.] CHYLIFACTIVE, a. Forming or changing into chyle; having the power to make chyle. |
10360
|
climacter |
[.] CLIMACTER, n. [.] 1. A critical year in human life; but climacteric is more generally used. [.] 2. A certain space of time. |
10361
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climacteric |
[.] CLIMACTERIC, a. Literally, noting a scale, progression, or gradation; appropriately, denoting a critical period of human life, or a certain number of years, at the end of which a great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. [See the Noun.] [.] CLIMACTERIC, ... |
10432
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close-compacted |
[.] CLOSE-COMPACTED, a. Being in compact order; compact. |
10593
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coact |
[.] COACT, v.i. To act together. |
10594
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coacted |
[.] COACTED, pp. or a. Forced; compelled. |
10595
|
coaction |
[.] COACTION, n. Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. |
10596
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coactive |
[.] COACTIVE, a. [.] 1. Forcing; compulsory; having the power to impel or restrain. [.] 2. Acting in concurrence. |
10597
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coactively |
[.] COACTIVELY, adv. In a compulsory manner. |
10964
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colliquefaction |
[.] COLLIQUEFACTION, n. A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. |
11269
|
compact |
[.] COMPACT, a. [.] 1. Closely and firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Stone, iron and wood are compact bodies. A compact leaf, in botany, is one having the pulp of a close firm texture. [.] 2. Composed; consisting. [.] [.] A ... |
11270
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compacted |
[.] COMPACTED, pp. Pressed close; firmly united, or connected. |
11271
|
compactedness |
[.] COMPACTEDNESS, n. A state of being compact; firmness; closeness of parts; density, whence results hardness. |
11272
|
compacting |
[.] COMPACTING, ppr. Uniting closely; consolidating. |
11273
|
compaction |
[.] COMPACTION, n. The act of making compact; or the state of being compact. |
11274
|
compactly |
[.] COMPACTLY, adv. Closely; densely; with close union of parts. |
11275
|
compactness |
[.] COMPACTNESS, n. Firmness; close union of parts; density. |
11276
|
compacture |
[.] COMPACTURE, n. Close union or connection of parts; structure well connected; manner of joining. |
12270
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contact |
[.] CONTACT, n. [L., to touch. See Touch.] A touching; touch; close union or juncture of bodies. Two bodies come in contact, when they meet without any sensible intervening space; the parts that touch are called the points of contact. |
12271
|
contaction |
[.] CONTACTION, n. The act of touching. |
12332
|
conterpractice |
[.] CONTERPRACTICE, n. Practice in opposition to another. |
12387
|
contract |
[.] CONTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw.] [.] 1. To draw together or nearer; to draw into a less compass, either in length or breadth; to shorten; to abridge; to narrow; to lessen; as, to contract an inclosure; to contract the faculties; to contract the period of life; ... |
12388
|
contracted |
[.] CONTRACTED, pp. [.] 1. Drawn together, or into a shorter or narrower compass; shrunk; betrothed; incurred; bargained. [.] 2. a. Narrow; mean; selfish; as a man of a contracted soul or mind. |
12389
|
contractedly |
[.] CONTRACTEDLY, adv. In a contracted manner. |
12390
|
contractedness |
[.] CONTRACTEDNESS, n. [.] 1. The state of being contracted. [.] 2. Narrowness; meanness; excessive selfishness. |
12391
|
contractibility |
[.] CONTRACTIBILITY, n. Possibility of being contracted; quality of suffering contraction; as the contractibility and dilatibility of air. |
12392
|
contractible |
[.] CONTRACTIBLE, a. Capable of contraction. [.] [.] Small air bladders, dilatable and contractible. |
12393
|
contractibleness |
[.] CONTRACTIBLENESS, n. The quality of suffering contraction; contractibility. |
12394
|
contractile |
[.] CONTRACTILE, a. Tending to contract; having the power of shortening or of drawing into smaller dimensions; as the contractile force of certain elastic bodies. |
12395
|
contractility |
[.] CONTRACTILITY, n. The inherent quality or force by which bodies shrink or contract. |
12396
|
contracting |
[.] CONTRACTING, ppr. [.] 1. Shortening or narrowing; drawing together; lessening dimensions; shrinking; making a bargain; betrothing. [.] 2. a. Making or having made a contract or treaty; stipulating; as the contracting parties to a league. |
12397
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contraction |
[.] CONTRACTION, n. [L.] [.] 1. The act of drawing together, or shrinking; the act of shortening, narrowing or lessening extent or dimensions, by causing the parts of a body to approach nearer to each other; the state of being contracted. [.] [.] Oil of vitriol will ... |
12398
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contractor |
[.] CONTRACTOR, n. [.] 1. One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do any thing for another. [.] 2. One who contracts or covenants with a government to furnish provisions or other supplies or to perform any work or service for the public, ... |
13050
|
counter-attraction |
[.] COUNTER-ATTRACTION, n. [counter and attraction.] Opposite attraction. |
13067
|
counteract |
[.] COUNTERACT, v.t. [counter and act.] To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat or frustrate by contrary agency. Good precepts will sometimes counteract the effects of evil example; but more generally good precepts are counteracted by bad examples. |
13068
|
counteracted |
[.] COUNTERACTED, pp. Hindered; frustrated; defeated by contrary agency. |
13069
|
counteracting |
[.] COUNTERACTING, ppr. Hindering; frustrating. |
13070
|
counteraction |
[.] COUNTERACTION, n. Action in opposition; hindrance. |
14121
|
dactyl |
[.] DACTYL, n. [Gr. A finger; L. probably a shoot.] A poetical foot consisting of three syllables, the first long, and the others short, like the joints of a finger; as, tegmine, carmine. |
14122
|
dactylar |
[.] DACTYLAR, a. Pertaining to a dactyl; reducing from three to two syllables. |
14123
|
dactylet |
[.] DACTYLET, n. A dactyl. |
14124
|
dactylic |
[.] DAC'TYLIC, a. Pertaining to or consisting of dactyls; as dactylic verses; a dactylic flute, a flute consisting of unequal intervals. |
14125
|
dactylist |
[.] DAC'TYLIST, n. One who writes flowing verse. |
14126
|
dactylology |
[.] DACTYLOL'OGY, n. The act or the art of communicating ideas or thoughts by the fingers. Deaf and dumb persons acquire a wonderful dexterity in this art. |
14917
|
delactable |
[.] DELACTABLE, a. [L. To delight.] Delightful; highly pleasing; that gives great joy or pleasure; as a delectable garden. |
14918
|
delactation |
[.] DELACTATION, n. A weaning. |
15674
|
detract |
[.] DETRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw and Drag.] [.] 1. Literally, to draw from. Hence, to take away from reputation or merit, through envy, malice or other motive; hence, to detract from, is to lessen or depreciate reputation or worth; to derogate from. [.] [.] Never ... |
15675
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detraction |
[.] DETRACTION, n. [L.] The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the view to lessen him in estimation; censure; a lessening of worth; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice. Detraction may consist in representing merit, as ... |
15676
|
detractious |
[.] DETRACTIOUS, a. Containing detraction; lessening reputation. [Not in use.] |
15677
|
detractive |
[.] DETRACTIVE, a. Having the quality or tendency to lessen the worth or estimation. |
15678
|
detractor |
[.] DETRACTOR, n. One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the worth or honor of another. |
15679
|
detractory |
[.] DETRACTORY, a. Derogatory; defamatory by denial of desert; with from. |
15680
|
detractress |
[.] DETRACTRESS, n. A female detractor; a censorious woman. |
15911
|
didactic |
[.] DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay. |
15912
|
didactical |
[.] DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay. |
15913
|
didactically |
[.] DIDACTICALLY, adv. In a didactic manner; in a form to teach. |
17012
|
dissatisfaction |
[.] DISSATISFACTION, n. [dis and satisfaction.] The state of being dissatisfied; discontent; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. [.] [.] The ambitious man is subject to uneasiness and dissatisfaction. |
17013
|
dissatisfactorines |
[.] DISSATISFACTORINESS, n. Inability to satisfy or give content; a failing to give content. |
17014
|
dissatisfactory |
[.] DISSATISFACTORY, a. Unable to give content. Rather, giving discontent; displeasing. [.] [.] To have reduced the different qualifications, in the different states, to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the states, as difficult ... |
17171
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distract |
[.] DISTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.] [.] 1. Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. ... |
17172
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distracted |
[.] DISTRACTED, pp. [.] 1. Drawn apart; drawn in different directions; diverted from its object; perplexed; harassed; confounded. [.] 2. a. Deranged; disordered in intellect; raving; furious; mad; frantic. |
17173
|
distractedly |
[.] DISTRACTEDLY, adv. Madly; furiously; wildly. |
17174
|
distractedness |
[.] DISTRACTEDNESS, n. A state of being mad; madness. |
17175
|
distracter |
[.] DISTRACTER, n. One who distracts. |
17176
|
distracting |
[.] DISTRACTING, ppr. Drawing apart; separating; diverting from an object; perplexing; harassing; disordering the intellect. |
17177
|
distraction |
[.] DISTRACTION, n. [L.] [.] 1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. [.] 2. Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction. ... |
17178
|
distractive |
[.] DISTRACTIVE, a. Causing perplexity; as distractive cases. |
18302
|
ebracteate |
[.] EBRAC'TEATE, a. [e priv. and bractea.] In botany,without a bractea or floral leaf. |
18349
|
ecphractic |
[.] ECPHRAC'TIC, a. [Gr.] In medicine, deobstruent; attenuating. [.] ECPHRAC'TIC, n. A medicine which dissolves or attenuates viscid matter, and removes obstructions. |
19032
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enact |
[.] ENACT', v.t. [en and act.] To make, as a law; to pass, as a bill into a law; to perform the last act of a legislature to a bill, giving it validity as a law; to give legislative sanction to a bill. [.] [.] Shall this bill pass to be enacted? [.] 1. To decree; ... |
19033
|
enacted |
[.] ENACT'ED, pp. Passed into a law; sanctioned as a law, by legislative authority. |
19034
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enacting |
[.] ENACT'ING, ppr. Passing into a law; giving legislative sanction to a bill, and establishing it as a law. [.] 1. Giving legislative forms and sanction; as the enacting clause of a bill. |
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enactment |
[.] ENACT'MENT, n. The passing of a bill into a law; the act of voting, decreeing and giving validity to a law. |
19036
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enactor |
[.] ENACT'OR, n. One who enacts or passes a law; one who decrees or establishes, as a law. [.] 1. One who performs any thing. [Not used.] |
19037
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enacture |
[.] ENAC'TURE, n. Purpose. [Not in use.] |
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epact |
[.] E'PACT, n. [Gr. adscititious, to adduce or bring; to drive.] [.] In chronology, the excess of the solar month above the lunar synodical month, and of the solar year above the lunar year of twelve synodical months. The epacts then are annual or menstrual. Suppose the ... |
20308
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exact |
[.] EXACT', a. egzact'. [L. exactus, from exigo, to drive; ex and ago. Gr. to drive, urge or press.] [.] 1. Closely correct or regular; nice; accurate; conformed to rule; as a man exact in his dealings. [.] [.] All this, exact to rule, were brought about. [.] 2. ... |
20309
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exacted |
[.] EXACT'ED, pp. Demanded or required by authority; extorted. |
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exacting |
[.] EXACT'ING, ppr. Demanding and compelling to pay or yield under color of authority; requiring authoritatively; demanding without pity or justice; extorting; compelling by necessity. |
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exaction |
[.] EXAC'TION, n. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; authoritative demand; a levying or drawing from by force; a driving to compliance; as the exaction of tribute or of obedience. [.] 1. Extortion; a wresting from one unjustly; the ... |
20312
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exactitude |
[.] EXACT'ITUDE, n. Exactness. [Little used.] |
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exactly |
[.] EXACT'LY, adv. Precisely according to rule or measure; nicely; accurately. A tenon should be exactly fitted to the mortise. [.] 1. Precisely according to fact. The story exactly accords with the fact or event. [.] 2. Precisely according to principle, justice ... |
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exactness |
[.] EXACT'NESS, n. Accuracy; nicety; precision; as, to make experiments with exactness. [.] 1. Regularity; careful conformity to law or rules of propriety; as exactness of deportment. [.] 2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as exactness in accounts ... |
20315
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exactor |
[.] EXACT'OR, n. One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs. [.] [.] I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isa. 60. [.] 1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who ... |
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exactress |
[.] EXACT'RESS, n. A female who exacts or is severe in her injunctions. |
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extract |
[.] EXTRACT', v.t. [L. extractus, from extraho; ex and traho, to draw.] [.] 1. To draw out; as, to extract a tooth. [.] 2. To draw out, as the juices or essence of a substance, by distillation, solution or other means; as, to extract spirit from the juice of the ... |
20970
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extracted |
[.] EXTRACT'ED, pp. Drawn or taken out. |
20971
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extracting |
[.] EXTRACT'ING, ppr. Drawing or taking out. |
20972
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extraction |
[.] EXTRAC'TION, n. [L. extractio.] The act of drawing out; as the extraction of a tooth; the extraction of a bone or an arrow from the body; the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery. [.] 1. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family. ... |
20973
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extractive |
[.] EXTRACT'IVE, a. That may be extracted. [.] EXTRACT'IVE, n. The proximate principle of vegetable extracts. |
20974
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extractor |
[.] EXTRACT'OR, n. In midwifery, a forceps or instrument for extracting children. |
21143
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fact |
[.] FACT, n. [L. factum, from facio, to make or do.] [.] 1. Any thing done, or that comes to pass; an act; a deed; an effect produced or achieved; an event. Witnesses are introduced into court to prove a fact. Facts are stubborn things. To deny a fact knowingly is ... |
21144
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faction |
[.] FAC'TION, n. [L. factio, from facio, to make or do.] [.] 1. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the prince, government or state; usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority. sometimes a state is divided ... |
21145
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factionary |
[.] FAC'TIONARY, n. A party man; one of a faction. [Little used.] |
21146
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factioner |
[.] FAC'TIONER, n. One of a faction. [Not in use.] |
21147
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factionist |
[.] FAC'TIONIST, n. One who promotes faction. |
21148
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factious |
[.] FAC'TIOUS, a. [L. factiosus.] [.] 1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government; turbulent; prone to clamor against public measures of men. No state is free from factious citizens. [.] 2. Pertaining to faction; ... |
21149
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factiously |
[.] FAC'TIOUSLY, adv. In a factious manner; by means of faction; in a turbulent or disorderly manner. |
21150
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factiousness |
[.] FAC'TIOUSNESS, n. Inclination to form parties in opposition to the government, or to the public interest; disposition to clamor and raise opposition; clamorousness for a party. |
21151
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factitious |
[.] FACTI'TIOUS, a. [L. factitius, from facio.] [.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; as factitious cinnabar; factitious stones; factitious air. |
21152
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factive |
[.] FAC'TIVE, a. Making; having power to make. [Not used.] |
21153
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factor |
[.] FAC'TOR, n. [L. factor; facio.] [.] 1. In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact other business on their account. [.] 2. an agent; a substitute. [.] 3. In arithmetic, ... |
21154
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factorage |
[.] FAC'TORAGE, n. the allowance given to a factor by his employer, as a compensation for his services; called also a commission. This is sometimes a certain sum or rate by the cask or package; more generally it is a certain rate per cent. Of the value of the goods, ... |
21155
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factorship |
[.] FAC'TORSHIP, n. a factory; or the business of a factor. |
21156
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factory |
[.] FAC'TORY, n. [.] 1. A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers. The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, &c. [.] 2. The body of factors in any place; as a chaplain to a British factory. [.] 3. ... |
21157
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factotum |
[.] FACTO'TUM, n. [L. do every thing.] a servant employed to do all kinds of work. |
21158
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facture |
[.] FAC'TURE, n. The art or manner of making. |
23208
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fract |
[.] FRACT, v.t. To break. [Not used.] |
23209
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fraction |
[.] FRAC'TION, n. [L. fractio, frango, fractus, to break. See Break.] [.] 1. The act of breaking or state of being broken, especially by violence. [.] 2. In arithmetic and algebra, a broken part of an integral or integer; any division of a whole number or unit, ... |
23210
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fractional |
[.] FRAC'TIONAL, a. Belonging to a broken number; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; as fractional numbers. |
23211
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fractious |
[.] FRAC'TIOUS, a. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; as a fractious man. |
23212
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fractiously |
[.] FRAC'TIOUSLY, adv. Passionately; snappishly. |
23213
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fractiousness |
[.] FRAC'TIOUSNESS, n. A cross or snappish temper. |
23214
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fracture |
[.] FRAC'TURE, n. [L. fractura. See Break.] [.] 1. A breach in any body, especially a breach caused by violence; a rupture of a solid body. [.] 2. In surgery, the rupture or disruption of a bone. A fracture is simple or compound; simple, when the bone only is divided; ... |
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fractured |
[.] FRAC'TURED, pp. Broken; cracked. |
23216
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fracturing |
[.] FRAC'TURING, ppr. Breaking; bursting asunder; cracking. |
23403
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frigefaction |
[.] FRIGEFAC'TION, n. [L. frigus, cold, and facio, to make.] The act of making cold. [Little used.] |
23852
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galactite |
[.] GALAC'TITE, n. [Gr. milk.] A fossil substance resembling the morochthus or French chalk in many respects,but different in color. Immersed or triturated in water, it gives it the color of milk. |
26614
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hermodactyl |
[.] HERMODAC'TYL, n. [Gr. Mercury, and a finger; Mercury's finger.] [.] In the Materia Medic, a root brought from Turkey. It is in the shape of a heart flatted, of a white color, compact, but easy to be cut or pulverized, of a viscous sweetish taste, with a slight degree ... |
26677
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hexadactylous |
[.] HEXADACTYLOUS, a. [Gr.] Having six toes. |
28250
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impact |
[.] IMPACT', v.t. [L. impactus, from impingo; in and pango, to drive.] [.] To drive close; to press or drive firmly together. |
28251
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impacted |
[.] IMPACT'ED, pp. Driven hard; made close by driving. |
28541
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impracticability |
[.] IMPRACTICABIL'ITY |
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impracticable |
[.] IMPRAC'TICABLE, a. [in and practicable. See Practice.] [.] 1. That cannot be done or performed; infeasible; not to be effected by human means,or by the means proposed. It is impracticable for a man to lift a ton by his unassisted strength; but not impracticable ... |
28543
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impracticableness |
[.] IMPRAC'TICABLENESS, n. [See Impracticable.] [.] 1. The state or quality of being beyond human power, or the means proposed; infeasibility. [.] 2. Untractableness; stubbornness. |
28544
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impracticably |
[.] IMPRAC'TICABLY, adv. In a manner or degree that hinders practice. [.] [.] --Morality not impracticably rigid. |
28669
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inaction |
[.] INAC'TION, n. Want of action; forbearance of labor; idleness; rest. |
28670
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inactive |
[.] INAC'TIVE, a. [in and active.] Not active; inert; having no power to move. Matter is, per se, inactive. [.] 1. Not active; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle. Also, habitually idle; indolent; sluggish; as an inactive officer. |
28671
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inactively |
[.] INAC'TIVELY, adv. Idly; sluggishly; without motion, labor or employment. |
28672
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inactivity |
[.] INACTIV'ITY, n. [in and activity.] Inertness; as the inactivity of matter. [.] 1. Idleness, or habitual idleness; want of action or exertion; sluggishness. |
28673
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inactuate |
[.] INAC'TUATE, v.t. To put in action. [Not used.] |
28674
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inactuation |
[.] INACTUA'TION, n. Operation. [Not used.] |
28943
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incompact |
[.] INCOMPACT' |
28944
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incompacted |
[.] INCOMPACT'ED, a. [in and compact.] [.] Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid. |
29048
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incontracted |
[.] INCONTRACT'ED, a. Not contracted; not shortened. |
29516
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inexact |
[.] INEXACT', a. [in and exact.] Not exact; not precisely correct or true. |
29517
|
inexactness |
[.] INEXACT'NESS, n. Incorrectness; want of precision. |
29710
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infract |
[.] INFRACT', v.t. [L. infractus, from infringo; in and frango, to break.] To break; to violate. [This is synonymous with infringe; it is an unnecessary word and little used.] |
29711
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infraction |
[.] INFRAC'TION, n. [L. infractio. See Infract.] [.] The act of breaking; breach; violation; non-observance; as an infraction of a treaty, compact, agreement or law. [.] |
29712
|
infractor |
[.] INFRACT'OR, n. One that violates an agreement, &c. |
30039
|
insatisfaction |
[.] INSATISFAC'TION, n. Want of satisfaction. |
30301
|
intactable |
[.] INTACT'ABLE, a. [L. intactum; in and tactum, tango, to touch.]perceptible to the touch. |
30379
|
interact |
[.] IN'TERACT, n. [inter and act.] Intermediate employment or time; a short piece between others. |
30699
|
intractability |
[.] INTRACTABIL'ITY, n. The quality of being ungovernable; obstinacy; perverseness. [.] 1. Indocility. |
30700
|
intractable |
[.] INTRACT'ABLE, a. [L. intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern.] [.] 1. Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as an intractable temper. [.] 2. Not to be taught; indocile. |
30701
|
intractableness |
[.] INTRACT'ABLENESS |
30702
|
intractably |
[.] INTRACT'ABLY, adv. In a perverse, stubborn manner. |
31233
|
jactancy |
[.] JAC'TANCY, n. [L. jactantia.] A boasting. [Not used.] |
31234
|
jactitation |
[.] JAC'TITATION, n. [L. jactito,jacto. It ought rather to be jactation, L. jactatio.] [.] 1. A tossing of the body; restlessness. [.] 2. A term in the canon law for a false pretension to marriage; vain boasting. |
31952
|
labefaction |
[.] LABEFAC'TION, n. [L. labefactio, from labefacio, labo, to totter, and facio, to make.] [.] A weakening or loosening; a failing; decay; downfall; ruin. |
32017
|
lactage |
[.] LAC'TAGE,n. The produce of animals yielding milk. |
32018
|
lactant |
[.] LAC'TANT, a. [L. lactans, from lacto, to give suck; lac, milk.] Suckling; giving suck. [Little used.] |
32019
|
lactary |
[.] LAC'TARY, a. [L. lactarius, from lacto; lac, milk.] [.] Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Little used.] [.] LAC'TARY, n. [L. lactarius.] A dairyhouse. |
32020
|
lactate |
[.] LAC'TATE, n. In chimistry, a salt formed by the lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base. |
32021
|
lactation |
[.] LACTA'TION, n. [L. lacto, to give suck.] The act of giving suck; or the time of suckling. |
32022
|
lacteal |
[.] LAC'TEAL, a. [.] 1. Pertaining to milk. [.] 2. Conveying chyle; as a lacteal vessel. [.] LAC'TEAL, n. A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestines to the common reservatory. |
32023
|
lacteous |
[.] LAC'TEOUS, a. [L. lacteus, from lac, milk. [.] 1. Milky; resembling milk. [.] 2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as a lacteous vessel. |
32024
|
lactescence |
[.] LACTES'CENCE, n. [L. lactescens, lactescp, from lacto; lac, milk.] [.] 1. Tendency to milk; milkiness or milky color. [.] 2. In botany, milkiness; the liquor which flows abundantly from a plant, when wounded; commonly white, but sometimes yellow or red. |
32025
|
lactescent |
[.] LACTES'CENT, a. [.] 1. Producing milk or white juice. [.] 2. Abounding with a thick colored juice. |
32026
|
lactic |
[.] LAC'TIC, a. Pertaining to milk, or procured from sour milk or whey; as the lactic acid. |
32027
|
lactiferous |
[.] LACTIF'EROUS, a. [L. lac, milk, and fero, to bear.] [.] 1. Bearing or conveying milk or white juice; as a lactiferous duct. [.] 2. Producing a thick colored juice; as a plant. |
32995
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liquefaction |
[.] LIQUEFAC'TION, n. [L. liquefactio, from liquefacio.] [.] 1. The act or operation of melting or dissolving; the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat or caloric. Liquefaction, in common usage, signifies the melting of any substance, but ... |
33479
|
lubrifaction |
[.] LUBRIFAC'TION, n. [infra.] The act of lubricating or making smooth. |
33719
|
mactation |
[.] MACTA'TION, n. [L. macto, to kill.] [.] The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. |
33737
|
madefaction |
[.] MADEFAC'TION, n. [L. madefacio.] The act of making wet. |
33907
|
malefaction |
[.] MALEFAC'TION, n. [L.male, evil, and facio, to do.] [.] A criminal deed; a crime; an offense against the laws. [Little used.] |
33908
|
malefactor |
[.] MALEFAC'TOR, n. [supra.] One who commits a crime; one guilty of violating the laws, in such a manner as to subject him to public prosecution and punishment, particularly to capital punishment; a criminal. |
33946
|
malpractice |
[.] MALPRAC'TICE, n. [mal and practice.] Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules. |
34148
|
manufactory |
[.] MANUFAC'TORY, n. [See Manufacture.] [.] A house or place where goods are manufactured. |
34149
|
manufactural |
[.] MANUFAC'TURAL, a. Pertaining or relating to manufactures. |
34150
|
manufacture |
...ials by the hand, by machinery, or by art; as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, cabinet work, sadlery, and the like. [.] MANUFAC'TURE, v.t. To make or fabricate from raw materials, by the hand, by art or machinery, and work into forms convenient for use; as, to manufacture ... |
34151
|
manufactured |
[.] MANUFAC'TURED, pp. Made form raw materials into forms for use. |
34152
|
manufacturer |
[.] MANUFAC'TURER, n. One who works raw materials into wares suitable for use. [.] 1. One who employs workmen for manufacturing; the owner of a manufactory. |
34153
|
manufacturing |
[.] MANUFAC'TURING, ppr. Making goods and wares from raw materials. |
35351
|
mischaracterize |
[.] MISCHAR'ACTERIZE, v.t. [See Character.] To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. [.] [.] They totally mischaracterize the action. |
35939
|
monodactylous |
[.] MONODACTYLOUS, a. [Gr.] Having one toe only, as an animal. |
36618
|
nactareous |
[.] NACTAREOUS, a. Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. [.] [.] The juice nectareous and the balmy dew. |
37290
|
non-manufacturing |
[.] NON-MANUFACTURING, a. Not carrying on manufactures; as non-manufacturing states. |
37752
|
obstupefaction |
[.] OBSTUPEFAC'TION, n. [L. obstupefacio.] The act of making stupid or insensible. [See Stupefaction, which is generally used.] |
37753
|
obstupefactive |
[.] OBSTUPEFAC'TIVE, a. [L. obstupefacio.] Stupefying; rendering insensible, torpid or inert. [Little used. See Sti[efactove/] |
37995
|
olfact |
[.] OLFACT', v.t. [L. olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.] [.] To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized. |
37996
|
olfactory |
[.] OLFACT'ORY, a. [L. olfacio, supra.] Pertaining to smelling; having the sense of smelling; as olfactory nerves. |
38562
|
outact |
[.] OUTACT', v.t. To do beyond; to exceed in act. [.] He has made me heir to treasures, would make me outact a read widow's whining. |
38758
|
overact |
[.] OVERACT', v.t. To act or perform to excess; as, he overacted his part. [.] OVERACT', v.i. To act more than is necessary. |
39148
|
pact |
[.] PACT, n. [L. pactus, from pango. See Pack.] [.] A contract; an agreement or covenant. |
39149
|
paction |
[.] PAC'TION, n. [L. pactio. See Pack.] An agreement or contract. |
39150
|
pactional |
[.] PAC'TIONAL, a. By way of agreement. |
39151
|
pactitious |
[.] PACTI'TIOUS, a. Settled by agreement or stipulation. |
39459
|
parallactic |
[.] PARALLAC'TIC |
39460
|
parallactical |
[.] PARALLAC'TICAL, a. [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body. |
39763
|
patefaction |
[.] PATEFAC'TION,n. [L. patefactio; pateo, to open, and facio, to make.] The act of opening or manifesting; open declaration. |
40155
|
pentadactyl |
[.] PENTADAC'TYL, n. [Gr. five, and finger.] [.] 1. In botany, a plant called five fingers; a name given to the Ricinus or Palma Christi, from the shape of its leaf. [.] 2. In ichthyology, the five fingered fish; a name given to a fish common in the East Indian seas, ... |
40641
|
petrifaction |
...b>,n. [See Petrify.] The process of changing into stone; the conversion of wood or any animal or vegetable substance into stone or a body of stony hardness. [.] [.] When the water in which wood is lodged is slightly impregnated with petrescent particles, the petrifaction ... |
40642
|
petrifactive |
[.] PETRIFAC'TIVE, a. Pertaining to petrifaction. [.] 1. Having power to convert vegetable or animal substances into stone. |
40828
|
phylacter |
[.] PHYLAC'TER |
40829
|
phylactered |
[.] PHYLAC'TERED, a. Wearing a phylactery; dressed like the Pharisees. |
40830
|
phylacteric |
[.] PHYLAC'TERIC |
40831
|
phylacterical |
[.] PHYLACTER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to phylacteries. |
40832
|
phylactery |
[.] PHYLAC'TERY, n. [Gr. to defend or guard.] [.] 1. In a general sense, any charm, spell or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease. [.] 2. Among the Jews, a slip of parchment on which was written some text of Scripture, particularly of the decalogue, ... |
42156
|
practic |
[.] PRAC'TIC, for practical, is not in use. It was formerly used for practical, and Spenser uses it in the sense of artful. |
42157
|
practicability |
[.] PRACTICABIL'ITY |
42158
|
practicable |
...may be done, effected or performed by human means, or by powers that can be applied. It is sometimes synonymous with possible, but the words differ in this; possible is applied to that which might be performed, if the necessary powers or means could be obtained; practicable ... |
42159
|
practicableness |
[.] PRACTICABLENESS, n. [from practicable.] The quality or state of being practicable; feasibility. |
42160
|
practicably |
[.] PRAC'TICABLY, adv. In such a manner as may be performed. "A rule practicably applied before his eyes," is not correct language. It is probably a mistake for practically. |
42161
|
practical |
[.] PRAC'TICAL, a. [L. practicus.] Pertaining to practice or action. [.] 1. Capable of practice or active use; opposed to speculative; as a practical understanding. [.] 2. That may be used in practice; that may be applied to use; as practical knowledge. [.] 3. ... |
42162
|
practically |
[.] PRAC'TICALLY, adv. In relation to practice. [.] 1. By means of practice or use; by experiment; as practically wise or skillful. [.] 2. In practice or use; as a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right. |
42163
|
practicalness |
[.] PRAC'TICALNESS, n. The quality of being practical. |
42164
|
practice |
[.] PRAC'TICE, n. [Gr. to act, to do, to make; Eng. to brook, and broker; L. fruor, for frugor or frucor, whence fructus, contracted into fruit; frequens.] [.] 1. Frequent or customary actions; a succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment; as the practice ... |
42165
|
practiced |
[.] PRAC'TICED, pp. Done by a repetition of acts; customarily performed or used. |
42166
|
practicer |
[.] PRAC'TICER, n. One that practices; one that customarily performs certain acts. [.] 1. One who exercises a profession. In this sense, practitioner is generally used. |
42167
|
practicing |
[.] PRAC'TICING, ppr. Performing or using customarily; exercising, as an art or profession. |
42168
|
practisant |
[.] PRAC'TISANT, n. An agent. [Not used.] |
42169
|
practitioner |
[.] PRACTI'TIONER, n. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly in law or medicine. [.] 1. One who does any thing customarily or habitually. [.] 2. One that practices sly or dangerous arts. |
42357
|
precontract |
[.] PRECON'TRACT, n. [pre and contract.] [.] A contract previous to another. |
42358
|
precontracted |
[.] PRECONTRACT'ED, pp. Previously contracted or stipulated; previously engaged by contract; as a woman precontracted to another man. |
42359
|
precontracting |
[.] PRECONTRACT'ING, ppr. Stipulating or covenanting beforehand. |
43271
|
prophylactic |
[.] PROPHYLAC'TIC |
43272
|
prophylactical |
[.] PROPHYLAC'TICAL, a. [Gr. to prevent, to guard against; to preserve.] [.] In medicine, preventive; defending from disease. |
43428
|
protract |
[.] PROTRACT', v.t. [L. protractus, from pro and traho, to draw.] [.] 1. To draw out or lengthen in time; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a discussion; to protract a war or a negotiation. [.] 2. To delay; to defer; to put off to a ... |
43429
|
protracted |
[.] PROTRACT'ED, pp. Drawn out in time; delayed. |
43430
|
protracter |
[.] PROTRACT'ER, n. One who protracts or lengthens in time. |
43431
|
protracting |
[.] PROTRACT'ING, ppr. Drawing out or continuing in time; delaying. |
43432
|
protraction |
[.] PROTRAC'TION, n. The act of drawing out or continuing in time; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; as the protraction of a debate. |
43433
|
protractive |
[.] PROTRACT'IVE, a. Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. [.] [.] He suffered their protractive arts. |
43434
|
protractor |
[.] PROTRACT'OR, n. An instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper with accuracy and dispatch, and by which the use of the line of chords is superseded. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular or circular. |
43908
|
putrefaction |
... [.] PUTREFAC'TION, n. [L. putrefactio; ... |
43909
|
putrefactive |
[.] PUTREFAC'TIVE, a. Pertaining to putrefaction; as the putrefactive smell or process. [.] 1. Tending to promote putrefaction; causing putrefaction. |
44596
|
rarefaction |
[.] RAREFAC'TION, n. [See Rarefy.] [.] The act or process of expanding or distending bodies, by separating the parts and rendering the bodies more rare or porous, by which operation they appear under a larger bulk, or require more room, without an accession of new matter; ... |
44735
|
re-enact |
[.] RE-ENACT', v.t. [re and enact.] To enact again. |
44736
|
re-enacted |
[.] RE-ENACT'ED, pp. Enacted again. |
44737
|
re-enacting |
[.] RE-ENACT'ING, ppr. Enacting anew; passing again into a law. |
44738
|
re-enaction |
[.] RE-ENAC'TION, n. The passing into a law again. |
44739
|
re-enactment |
[.] RE-ENACT'MENT, n. The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law. |
44788
|
react |
[.] REACT', v.t. [re and act.] To act or perform a second time; as, to react a play. The same scenes were reacted at Rome. [.] REACT', v.i. [.] 1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force. Every elastic body ... |
44789
|
reacted |
[.] REACT'ED, pp. Acted or performed a second time. |
44790
|
reacting |
[.] REACT'ING, ppr. Acting again; in physics, resisting the impulse of another body. |
44791
|
reaction |
[.] REAC'TION, n. [.] 1. In physics, counteraction; the resistance made by a body to the action or impulse of another body, which endeavors to change its state, either of motion or rest. Action and reaction are equal. [.] 2. Any action in resisting other action ... |
45122
|
recompact |
[.] RECOMPACT', v.t. [re and compact.] To join anew. [.] Repair and recompact my scatter'd body. |
45282
|
redact |
[.] REDACT', v.t. [L. redactus, redigo; red, re, and ago.] [.] To force; to reduce to form. [Not used.] |
45481
|
refract |
[.] REFRACT', v.t. [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.] [.] To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course. A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium. |
45482
|
refractarias |
[.] REFRACTA'RIAS, n. A mineral. [.] |
45483
|
refracted |
[.] REFRACT'ED, pp. [.] 1. Turned from a direct course, as rays of light. [.] 2. a. In botany, bent back at an acute angle; as a refracted corol. |
45484
|
refracting |
[.] REFRACT'ING, ppr. [.] 1. Turning from a direct course. [.] 2. a. That turns rays from a direct course; as a refracting medium. |
45485
|
refraction |
[.] REFRAC'TION, n. The deviation of a moving body, chiefly rays of light, from a direct course. This is occasioned by the different densities of the mediums through which light passes. [.] Refraction out of a rarer medium into a denser, is made towards the perpendicular. [.] Refraction ... |
45486
|
refractive |
[.] REFRACT'IVE, a. That refracts or has power to refract or turn from a direct course; as refractive densities. |
45487
|
refractoriness |
[.] REFRACT'ORINESS, n. [from refractory.] [.] Perverse or sullen obstinacy in opposition or disobedience. [.] I never allowed any man's refractoriness against the privileges and orders of the house. |
45488
|
refractory |
[.] REFRACT'ORY, a. [L. refractarius, from refragor, to resist; re and fragor, from frango.] [.] 1. Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; as a refractory child; a refractory servant. [.] Raging appetites that are most disobedient ... |
46403
|
resino-extractive |
[.] RES'INO-EXTRAC'TIVE, a. Designating extractive matter in which resin predominates. |
46640
|
retract |
[.] RETRACT', v.t. [L. retractus, retraho; re and traho, to draw.] [.] 1. To recall, as a declaration, words or saying; to disavow; to recant; as, to retract an accusation, charge or assertion. [.] I would as freely have retracted the charge of idolatry, as I ever ... |
46641
|
retractable |
[.] RETRACT'ABLE, a. That may be retracted or recalled. |
46642
|
retractation |
[.] RETRACTA'TION, n. [L. retractatio.] [.] The recalling of what has been said; recantation; change of opinion declared. |
46643
|
retracted |
[.] RETRACT'ED, pp. Recalled; recanted; disavowed. |
46644
|
retractile |
[.] RETRACT'ILE, a. Capable of being drawn back. [.] A walrus with fiery eyes - retractile from external injuries. |
46645
|
retracting |
[.] RETRACT'ING, ppr. Recalling; disavowing; recanting. |
46646
|
retraction |
[.] RETRAC'TION, n. [from retract.] [.] 1. The act of withdrawing something advanced, or changing something done. [.] 2. Recantation; disavowal of the truth of what has been said; declaration of change of opinion. [.] 3. Act of withdrawing a claim. [.] Other ... |
46647
|
retractive |
[.] RETRACT'IVE, a. Withdrawing; taking from. [.] RETRACT'IVE, n. That which withdraws or takes from. |
46668
|
retroaction |
[.] RETROAC'TION, n. [L. retro, backward, and action.] [.] 1. Action returned, or action backwards. [.] 2. Operation on something past or preceding. |
46669
|
retroactive |
... [.] RETROAC'TIVE, a. [L. retro, backward, and active.] [.] Operating ... |
46670
|
retroactively |
[.] RETROAC'TIVELY, adv. By returned action or operation; by operating on something past. |
46677
|
retrofract |
[.] RET'ROFRACT, |
46678
|
retrofracted |
[.] RETROFRACT'ED, a. [L. retro, back, and fractus, broken.] [.] Reduced to hang down as it were by force so as to appear as if broken; as a retrofract peduncle. [.] Bent back towards its insertion, as if it were broken. |
47619
|
saccholactic |
[.] SACCHOLAC'TIC, a. [L. saccharum, sugar, and lac, milk.] [.] A term in the new chimistry, denoting an acid obtained from the sugar of milk; now called mucic acid. |
48037
|
satisfaction |
[.] SATISFAC'TION, n. [L. satisfactio. See Satisfy.] [.] 1. That state of the mind which results from the full gratification of desire; repose of mind or contentment with present possession and enjoyment. Sensual pleasure affords no permanent satisfaction. [.] 2. ... |
48038
|
satisfactive |
[.] SATISFAC'TIVE, a. Giving satisfaction. [Little used or not at all.] |
48039
|
satisfactorily |
[.] SATISFAC'TORILY, adv. [.] 1. In a manner to give satisfaction or content. [.] 2. In a manner to impress conviction or belief. The crime was satisfactorily proved. |
48040
|
satisfactoriness |
[.] SATISFAC'TORINESS, n. The power of satisfying or giving content; as the satisfactoriness of pleasure or enjoyment. |
48041
|
satisfactory |
[.] SATISFAC'TORY, a. [.] 1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; particularly, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty and enabling it to rest with confidence; as, to give a satisfactory account of any remarkable transaction. A judge seeks for satisfactory ... |
48991
|
self-activity |
[.] SELF-ACTIV'ITY, n. [self and activity.] Self-motion, or the power of moving one's self without foreign aid. |
49126
|
semi-compact |
[.] SEMI-COM'PACT, a. [semi and compact.] Half compact; imperfectly indurated. |
51287
|
spargefaction |
[.] SPARGEFAC'TION, n. [L. spargo, to sprinkle.] The act of sprinkling. [Not Used.] |
51878
|
stacte |
[.] STACTE, n. [L., Gr.] A fatty resinous liquid matter, of the nature of liquid myrrh, very odoriferous and highly valued. But it is said we have none but what is adulterated, and what is so called is liquid storax. |
51923
|
stalactic |
[.] STALACTIC, STALACTICAL, a. [from stalactite.] Pertaining to stalactite; resembling an icicle. |
51924
|
stalactical |
[.] STALACTIC, STALACTICAL, a. [from stalactite.] Pertaining to stalactite; resembling an icicle. |
51925
|
stalactiform |
[.] STALACTIFORM, STALACTITIFORM, a. Like stalactite; resembling an icicle. |
51926
|
stalactite |
[.] STALACTITE, n. [Gr., to drop. L.] A subvariety of carbonate lime, usually in a conical or cylindrical form, pendent from the roofs and sides of caverns like an icicle; produced by the filtration of water containing calcarious particles, through fissures and pores of ... |
51927
|
stalactitic |
[.] STALACTITIC, a. In the form of stalactite, or pendent substances like icicles. |
51928
|
stalactitiform |
[.] STALACTIFORM, STALACTITIFORM, a. Like stalactite; resembling an icicle. |
52816
|
stupefaction |
[.] STUPEFACTION, n. [L. See Stop.] [.] 1. The act of rendering stupid. [.] 2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity. [.] [.] Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. |
52817
|
stupefactive |
[.] STUPEFACTIVE, a. Causing insensibility; deadening or blunting the sense of felling or understanding; narcotic. [.] [.] Opium hath a stupefactive part. |
52873
|
sub-contracted |
[.] SUB-CONTRACTED, a. [sub and contracted.] Contracted after a former contract. |
52877
|
subact |
[.] SUBACT, v.t. [L.] To reduce; to subdue. [Not in use.] |
52878
|
subaction |
[.] SUBACTION, n. The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely, or of beating them to a powder. |
53093
|
substract |
[.] SUBSTRACT', v.t. [L. subtraho, subractum.] To subtract. [.] Note.--Substract was formerly used in analogy with abstract. But in modern usage, it is written according to the Latin, subtract. See this word and its derivatives. |
53094
|
substraction |
[.] SUBSTRAC'TION, n. In law, the withdrawing or withholding of some right. Thus the substraction of conjugal rights, is when either the husband or wife withdraws from the other and lives separate. The substraction of a legacy, is the withholding or detaining of it from ... |
53132
|
subtract |
[.] SUBTRACT', v.t. [L. subtraho, subtractus; sub and traho, to draw.] [.] To withdraw or take a part from the rest; to deduct. Subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4. |
53133
|
subtracted |
[.] SUBTRACT'ED, pp. Withdrawn from the rest; deducted. |
53134
|
subtracter |
[.] SUBTRACT'ER, n. He that subtracts. [.] 1. The number to be taken from a larger number. [Not used.] |
53135
|
subtracting |
[.] SUBTRACT'ING, ppr. Withdrawing from the rest; deducting. |
53136
|
subtraction |
[.] SUBTRAC'TION, n. [L. subtractio.] The act or operation of taking a part from the rest. [.] 1. In arithmetic, the taking of a lesser number from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation by which is found the difference between two sums. |
53137
|
subtractive |
[.] SUBTRACT'IVE, a. Tending or having power to subtract. |
54173
|
syntactic |
[.] SYNTAC'TIC |
54174
|
syntactical |
[.] SYNTAC'TICAL, a. [See Syntax.] Pertaining to syntax, or the construction of sentences. [.] 1. According to the rules of syntax or construction. |
54175
|
syntactically |
[.] SYNTAC'TICALLY, adv. In conformity to syntax. |
54222
|
tabefaction |
[.] TABEFAC'TION, n. [L. tabeo, to waste, and facio, to make. See Tabefy.] A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. |
54272
|
tact |
[.] TACT, n. [L. tactus, from tango, [for tago,] to touch.] [.] 1. Touch; feeling; formerly, the stroke in beating time in music. [.] 2. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment. |
54273
|
tactic |
[.] TAC'TIC |
54274
|
tactical |
[.] TAC'TICAL, a. [See Tactics.] Pertaining to the art of military and naval dispositions for battle, evolutions, &c. |
54275
|
tactician |
[.] TACTI'CIAN, n. [See Tactics.] One versed in tactics. |
54276
|
tactics |
[.] TAC'TICS, n. [Gr. to set, to appoint.] See Tack.] [.] 1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle and performing military and naval evolutions. In the most extensive sense, tactics, la grande tactique of the French, comprehends ... |
54277
|
tactil |
[.] TAC'TIL, a. [L. tactilis, from tango,to touch.] Tangible; susceptible of touch; that may be felt; as tactile sweets; tactile qualities. |
54278
|
tactile |
[.] TAC'TILE |
54279
|
tactility |
[.] TACTIL'ITY, n. Tangibleness; perceptibility of touch. |
54280
|
taction |
[.] TAC'TION, n. [L. tactio, tango, to touch.] The act of touching; touch. |
54783
|
tepefaction |
[.] TEPEFAC'TION, n. [L. tepefacio; tepidus, warm, and facio,to make.] [.] The act or operation of warming, making tepid or moderately warm. |
54924
|
tetradactylous |
[.] TETRADAC'TYLOUS, a. [Gr.] Having four toes. |
55768
|
torrefaction |
[.] TORREFAC'TION, n. [L.torrefacio; torridus and facio.] [.] 1. The operation of drying by a fire. [.] 2. In metallurgy, the operation of roasting ores. [.] 3. In pharmacy, the drying or roasting of drugs on a metalline plate, placed over or before coals of fire, ... |
55898
|
tract |
[.] TRACT, n. [L. tractus; traho.] [.] 1. Something drawn out or extended. [.] 2. A region, or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent. We may apply tract to the sandy and barren desert of Syria and Arabia, or to the narrow vales of Italy and Sardinia. We ... |
55899
|
tractability |
[.] TRACTABIL'ITY, n. [from tractable.] The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness. |
55900
|
tractable |
[.] TRACT'ABLE, a. [L. tractabilis, from tracto, to handle or lead.] [.] 1. That may be easily led, taught or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner. [.] 2. Palpable; such as may be handled; as tractable measures. |
55901
|
tractableness |
[.] TRACT'ABLENESS, n. The state or quality of being tractable or manageable; docility; as the tractableness of children. |
55902
|
tractably |
[.] TRACT'ABLY, adv. In a tractable manner; with ready compliance. |
55903
|
tractate |
[.] TRACT'ATE, n. [L. tractatus.] A treatise; a tract. [Not now in use.] |
55904
|
tractation |
[.] TRACTA'TION, n. [L. tractatio.] Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. |
55905
|
tractatrix |
[.] TRACTA'TRIX, n. In geometry, a curve line. |
55906
|
tractile |
[.] TRACT'ILE, a. [L. tractus.] Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. [.] [.] Bodies are tractile or intractile. |
55907
|
tractility |
[.] TRACTIL'ITY, n. The quality of being tractile; ductility. |
55908
|
traction |
[.] TRAC'TION, n. [L. tractus, traho.] The act of drawing, or state of being drawn; as the traction of a muscle. [.] 1. Attraction; a drawing towards. |
55909
|
tractor |
[.] TRACT'OR, n. That which draws, or is used for drawing. |
56001
|
transact |
[.] TRANSACT', v.t. [L. transactus, transigo; trans and ago; to act or drive through.] To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact business in person or by an agent. |
56002
|
transacted |
[.] TRANSACT'ED, pp. Done; performed; managed. |
56003
|
transacting |
[.] TRANSACT'ING, ppr. Managing; performing. |
56004
|
transaction |
[.] TRANSAC'TION, n. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair. [.] 1. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction. [.] 2. In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties ... |
56005
|
transactor |
[.] TRANSACT'OR, n. One who performs or conducts any business. |
56335
|
tribracteate |
[.] TRIBRAC'TEATE, a. Having three bracts about the flower. |
56365
|
tridactylous |
[.] TRIDAC'TYLOUS, a. [Gr. three, and a toe.] Having three toes. |
56736
|
tumefaction |
[.] TUMEFAC'TION, n. [L. tumefacio, to make tumid. See Tumid.] The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling. |
57150
|
unacted |
[.] UNACT'ED, a. Not acted; not performed; not executed. |
57151
|
unactive |
[.] UNACT'IVE, a. [.] 1. Not active; not brisk. [We now use inactive.] [.] 2. Having no employment. [.] 3. Not busy; not diligent; idle. [.] 4. Having no action or efficacy. [See Inactive.] |
57152
|
unactuated |
[.] UNACT'UATED, a. Not actuated; not moved. |
57314
|
unattracted |
[.] UNATTRACT'ED, a. Not attracted; not affected by attraction. |
57541
|
uncharacteristic |
[.] UNCHARACTERIS'TIC, a. Not characteristic; not exhibiting a character. |
57649
|
uncompact |
[.] UNCOMPACT', a. Not compact; not firm; not of close texture; loose. |
57650
|
uncompacted |
[.] UNCOMPACT'ED, a. Not compact; not firm. |
57906
|
underaction |
[.] UNDERAC'TION, n. Subordinate action; action not essential to the main story. [.] The least episodes or underactions - are parts necessary to the main design. |
57922
|
underfaction |
[.] UNDERFAC'TION, n. A subordinate faction. |
58119
|
undistracted |
[.] UNDISTRACT'ED, a. Not perplexed by contrariety or confusion of thought, desires or concerns. |
58120
|
undistractedly |
[.] UNDISTRACT'EDLY, adv. Without disturbance from contrariety of thoughts or multiplicity of concerns. |
58121
|
undistractedness |
[.] UNDISTRACT'EDNESS, n. Freedom from disturbance or interruption from contrariety or multiplicity of thoughts and concerns. |
58251
|
unexact |
[.] UNEXACT', a. Not exact. [See Inexact, which is generally used.] |
58252
|
unexacted |
[.] UNEXACT'ED, a. Not exacted; not taken by force. |
58302
|
unextracted |
[.] UNEXTRACT'ED, a. Not extracted or drawn out. |
58877
|
unmanufactured |
[.] UNMANUFAC'TURED, a. Not manufactured; not wrought into the proper form for use. |
59176
|
unpracticable |
[.] UNPRAC'TICABLE, a. Not feasible; that cannot be performed. [The word now used is impracticable.] |
59177
|
unpracticed |
[.] UNPRAC'TICED, a. [.] 1. Not having been taught by practice; not skilled; not having experience; raw; unskillful. [.] 2. Not known; not familiar by use. [Not used.] |
59243
|
unprotracted |
[.] UNPROTRACT'ED, a. Not protracted; not drawn out in length. |
59335
|
unrefracted |
[.] UNREFRACT'ED, a. Not refracted, as rays of light. |
59413
|
unretracted |
[.] UNRETRACT'ED, a. Not retracted; not recalled. |
59490
|
unsatisfaction |
[.] UNSATISFAC'TION, n. Dissatisfaction. |
59491
|
unsatisfactorily |
[.] UNSATISFAC'TORILY, adv. So as not to give satisfaction. |
59492
|
unsatisfactoriness |
[.] UNSATISFAC'TORINESS, n. The quality or state of not being satisfactory; failure to give satisfaction. |
59493
|
unsatisfactory |
[.] UNSATISFAC'TORY, a. [.] 1. Not giving satisfaction; not convincing the mind. [.] 2. Not giving content; as an unsatisfactory compensation. |
59875
|
untractable |
[.] UNTRACT'ABLE, a. [L. intractabilis.] [.] 1. Not tractable; not yielding to discipline; stubborn; indocile; ungovernable; as an untractable son. [.] 2. Rough; difficult. [.] 3. Not yielding to the heat or to the hammer; as an ore. [.] [Intractable is more ... |
59876
|
untractableness |
[.] UNTRACT'ABLENESS, n. Refractoriness; stubbornness; unwillingness to be governed; controlled or managed. |
61020
|
vitrifaction |
[.] VITRIFAC'TION, n. [See vitrify.] The act, process or operation of converting into glass by heat; as the vitrifaction of sand, flint and pebbles with alkaline salts. |
62975
|
zygodactylous |
[.] ZYGODACTYLOUS, a. [Gr., to join; a finger.] Having the toes disposed in pairs; distinguishing an order of fowls which have the feet furnished with two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, woodpecker, &c. |
