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NUMEROUS |
Being many |
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MULTITUDE |
The state of being many; numerousness. |
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MULTILOQUENCE |
Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words;
talkativeness. |
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PRICKLINESS |
The quality of being prickly, or of having many
prickles. |
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LIFE |
A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many
lives were sacrificed. |
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INADVERTENCY |
The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness
or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed
from inadvertence. |
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OBDIPLOSTEMONOUS |
Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of
the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. |
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POLYTOMOUS |
Subdivided into many distinct subordinate parts, which,
however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; --
said of leaves. |
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MULTIPLICITY |
The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various;
a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or
objects. |
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INDISSOLUBLE |
Not dissoluble; not capable of being dissolved,
melted, or liquefied; insoluble; as few substances are indissoluble by
heat, but many are indissoluble in water. |
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POLYSYLLABLE |
A word of many syllables, or consisting of more
syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called
monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables. |
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DISCOVERABLE |
Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived;
as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the
microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. |
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INCOMPRESSIBLE |
Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by
force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting
compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost
incompressible. |
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MITRE |
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church
dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a
lofty cap with two points or peaks. |
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ECRASEUR |
An instrument intended to replace the knife in many
operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect
produced by the grad... |
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APONEUROSIS |
...ciae
which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many
muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin.
... |
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PLASTIC |
A substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic
high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic
are used to p... |
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PICK |
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a
loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing
the fineness... |
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SOVEREIGNTY |
The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a
sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power;
dominion; sway; suprema... |
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MUSKMELON |
...),
having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties,
the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish
... |
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-ART |
..., reynard,
drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of
German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It us... |
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LEMON |
...and
containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical
tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being th... |
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WATER BUG |
...oars. Some of these insects are of great size,
being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of
the water and fly about at n... |
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VOLVOX |
...s, about
one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the
motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been cons... |
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SUCROSE |
...ance which is valuable as
a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the
preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane ... |