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AMEN |
So be it |
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AMIN |
Located in steam engine? So be it! |
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EXCEPT |
Unless; if it be not so that. |
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DOWEL |
A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may
be nailed to it. |
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BEDPAN |
A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be
used by a sick person in bed. |
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THUMBSCREW |
A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it
may be turned by the thumb and forefinger. |
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REQUISITE |
Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances;
so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable. |
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CUTTER |
A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so
called from the facility with which it can be cut. |
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LITTER |
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick
or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. |
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INCORPORATE |
To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to
be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with. |
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BRAKE |
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody
part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. |
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PROTOORGANISM |
An organism whose nature is so difficult to
determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the
vegetable kingdom. |
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SPILL |
To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that
it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain. |
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CAPOC |
A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun,
used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc. |
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SEPTUAGINT |
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called
because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of
seventy-two) translators. |
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CASK |
A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops,
usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or
smaller than a barrel. |
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BLEND |
A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color,
tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or
the other begins. |
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STOCKWORK |
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in
strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or
stories. |
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ROCKING-STONE |
A stone, often of great size and weight, resting
upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or
slightly moved, with but little force. |
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CHEEK |
A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved
laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the
middle part of a flask. |
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ANTOZONE |
A compound formerly supposed to be modification of
oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because
apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen. |
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EPIGYNOUS |
Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be
apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals,
sepals, and also of the disk. |
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GLYPHOGRAPHY |
A process similar to etching, in which, by means of
voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can
be used to print from. |
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TRUNDLE-BED |
A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels,
so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also,
sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels. |
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SACKBUT |
A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived
that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required;
-- said to be the same as the trombone. |