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AUSSIE |
One from Down Under |
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RESIGN |
Stand down from one’s job |
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RESIGNS |
Stands down from one's job |
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PARAPLEGIC |
One who is paralysed from the waist down |
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AUSTRALIA |
A beginner in Alpine country then one down under |
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TRANSMISSIVE |
Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed
down, from one to another. |
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TAX |
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution
or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. |
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DEVOLVE |
To transfer from one person to another; to deliver
over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into. |
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DRACONTIC |
Belonging to that space of time in which the moon
performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See
Dragon's head, under Dragon. |
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SHOPLIFTER |
One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods
privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes
occasion to steal. |
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REFLECTION |
The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber
to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex
action, under Reflex. |
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SHAKEDOWN |
A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the
floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of
straw for this purpose. |
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DESCEND |
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less
virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as,
he descended from his high estate. |
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RAY |
One of the component elements of the total radiation from a
body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray;
the violet ray. See Illust. under Light. |
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DIAMIDE |
Any compound containing two amido groups united with one
or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine.
Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide. |
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BELIEVER |
One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship
and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in
distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction. |
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DEPOSITION |
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing;
also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or
affirmation, before some compet... |
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FREE |
... under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses,
desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; n... |
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SHAKE |
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or
vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as
off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. |
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LIMIT |
A determinate quantity, to which a variable one
continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given
difference, but to which,... |
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WOOD'S METAL |
A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of
cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of
bismuth. It melts at fro... |
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MAIL |
... or other
matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post
office to another; the whole system of appliances used by gove... |
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HOUSE |
...oof; to
cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as,
to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming ut... |
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LAW |
Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject,
or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings
pertaining to th... |
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TOUCH |
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and
but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is,
tapered from ... |