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Heptarchy
A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
Mount
A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper ..
Antonomasia
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say,..
Stuffing
of Stuff
Synergy
Combined action
Heptad
An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also ..
Midge
Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
Perfusion
The act of perfusing.
Heptahedron
A solid figure with seven sides.
Aisle
A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory..
Glomeration
The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.
Depredate
To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Conduction
The act of leading or guiding.
Gleaning
of Glean
Consume
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
Expostulatory
Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
Constipated
of Constipate
Commissariat
The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
Proliferation
The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.
Access
A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
Devastate
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Duumvirate
The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
Condemn
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Seven
One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.
Upend
To end up; to set on end, as a cask.
Blue book
A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
Stave
One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides..
Communalism
A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is adv..
Onomatology
The science of names or of their classification.
Phylum
One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
Agglutination
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Quatrain
A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Both
The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
Unassuming
Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.
Subkingdom
One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the ..
Articulation
A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
Vernacular
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
Accommodation
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
Collaboration
The act of working together; united labor.
Doctor
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
Genre
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Alley
A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
Octave
The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
Transplantation
The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.
Corridor
A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
Confluence
The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
Furnishment
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.
Intercommunion
Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities.
Communism
A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally..
Yoking
of Yoke
