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SURER |
More certain |
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USURER |
Loan shark makes you more certain |
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CORROBORATE |
To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. |
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STEAROPTENE |
The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; --
contrasted with elaeoptene. |
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SOMEWHAT |
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more
or less; something. |
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MULTIVALVULAR |
Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of
certain shells, as the chitons. |
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SUBFAMILY |
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus,
into which certain families are divided. |
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ELAEOPTENE |
The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily
substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. |
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GONIMIA |
Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens,
as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia. |
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PALMATED |
Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less
divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc. |
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BOOK |
Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in
certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. |
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STYLET |
Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the
caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain
Infusoria. |
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FISSION |
A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms,
annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming
two or more new ones. See Strobilation. |
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STRAW |
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc.,
especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat,
beans, and pease. |
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SYLLABARY |
A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the
indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese
and Cherokee, instead of letters. |
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CHLORHYDRIN |
One of a class of compounds formed from certain
polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of
chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups. |
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SOME |
A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc.,
as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some
man, that is, some one man. |
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LIABLE |
Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or
less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to
slip; liable to accident. |
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GONFANON |
The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or
states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent
times by the pope. |
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BEAD PROOF |
...c gravities thrown into it; now
ascertained by more accurate meters. ... |
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WAGER |
A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one
of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. |
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WEDGE-TAILED |
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longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or
less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe,
... |
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RETICULARIA |
An extensive division of rhizopods in which the
pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points,
forming irregular meshes. ... |
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POLYACID |
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several
molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom
capable of being repla... |
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CLEISTOGAMOUS |
... closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of
certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds,
the clo... |