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CLEAR |
See-through |
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SWEAT |
See-through |
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TRANSLUCENT |
See-through |
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SHEER |
See-through |
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TRANSPARENT |
See-through |
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ROMANTICISE |
Row, man! ‘Tis eyes that are said to see through rosecoloured glasses |
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ROMANTICISM |
Row, man! ‘Tis eyes that are said to see through rosecoloured glasses |
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RUMBLE |
To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine.
See Rumble, n., 4. |
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DRINK |
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to
inhale; to hear; to see. |
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SIGHT |
To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to
sight an object, as a star. |
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WOOLDER |
One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin
passing through it. See 1st Top, 2. |
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RA- |
A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us
through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-. |
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RAY |
One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point,
and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See
Half-ray. |
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SMELL |
The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies
are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See
Sense. |
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ELECTROTONUS |
The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant
current of electricity passes through any part of it. See
Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. |
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EMBRASURE |
An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet,
through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See
Illust. of Casemate. |
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EREBUS |
A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through
which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book
II., line 883. |
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DIAMETER |
The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a
column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See
Module. |
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CLEPSYDRA |
A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the
graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See
Illust. in Appendix. |
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HAUTBOY |
A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in
shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly
called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe. |
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DIACOUSTICS |
That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the
properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums;
-- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics. |
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LARVALIA |
An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and
allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are
retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See
Appendicularia. |
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LATUS RECTUM |
The line drawn through a focus of a conic section
parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is
the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter. |
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UROHAEMATIN |
Urinary haematin; -- applied to the normal coloring
matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either
directly or indirectly (th... |
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RATTLE |
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing
through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly
observable at the approach... |