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Ion
One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.
Metamer
Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
Neptunium
A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
Mesmeree
A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
Horn
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externa..
Carburetor
An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Item
Also; as an additional article.
Materiality
The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
Transmission
The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, tit..
Minutia
A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Anion
An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
Alkali
Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
Intake
The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.
Atmosphere
The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.
Polymer
Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.
Stimulus
A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
Furnace
An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air fu..
Integral
Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Caliduct
A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Monad
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Element
One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
Ignition
The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
Oppidan
Of or pertaining to a town.
Burghal
Belonging to a burgh.
District
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Citified
Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Soke
See Soc.
Urban
Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
Municipal
Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
Territory
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
Hundred
The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units..
Manifold
Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
Diocese
The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Arrondissement
A subdivision of a department.
Exhaust
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Wapentake
In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of..
Accelerator
One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
Hamlet
A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Constablewick
The district to which a constable's power is limited.
Civic
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Village
A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Parish
That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
Stake
A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
Magistracy
The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Shire
A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorks..
Town
A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Lenient
Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
Permitting
of Permit
Persuadable
That may be persuaded.
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