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SIC |
So; thus |
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SO-CALLED |
So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus
with doubtful propriety). |
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THUS |
To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus
peaceble; thus bold. |
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SULPHIONIDE |
A binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded;
thus, sulphuric acid, H/SO/, is a sulphionide. |
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DOMINANT |
The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C,
A of D, and so on. |
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SO |
Is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone;
as, do you say he refuses? So? |
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OBELUS |
A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a
needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected
passages or readings. |
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FLASH |
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just
above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and
thus bear them over the shoal. |
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FAKE |
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear
better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning
his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it. |
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TREPAN |
To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to
remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure
or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan. |
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OVERBLOW |
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an
overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper
octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing. |
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ABSCISSION |
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun
to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and
candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
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MARSEILLES |
...h are
formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming
double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in
... |
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DERIVATIVE |
A substance so related to another substance by
modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from
it; thus, the amido compo... |
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TUMBLER |
A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called
because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be
set down with any l... |
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ECBATIC |
...uished
from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if
rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in ... |
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COUNTER-PALY |
Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each
vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or
counterchanged. Thus the es... |
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SCORIFY |
To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying,
to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax,
lead, soda, etc.,... |
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SNORING |
The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the
currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and
soft palate, th... |
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LEGATO |
...or /, /, written over or under the
notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato. ... |
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FLYTRAP |
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap,
the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together
when certain h... |
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PER- |
...arium; while
nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides
of those elements. ... |
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RABBET |
... of the
edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another
member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold ... |
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DINOSAURIA |
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of
large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present
birdlike characters in ... |
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BLOCKHOUSE |
...for
military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an
upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to ha... |