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Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

End-all :: End-all (n.) Complete termination.

Lecanomancy :: Lecanomancy (n.) divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought..

Change :: Change (v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill..

Imaginationalism :: Imaginationalism (n.) Idealism.

Omphalomancy :: Omphalomancy (n.) Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have..

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search..

Volt :: Volt (n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15? C..

Macaroni :: Macaroni (n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform..

Trutination :: Trutination (n.) The act of weighing.

Inquisitiveness :: Inquisitiveness (n.) The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity..

Disunion :: Disunion (n.) The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.

Interpellate :: Interpellate (v. t.) To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body..

Mobocracy :: Mobocracy (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights..

Calibration :: Calibration (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument..

Krishna :: Krishna (n.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu..

Fibrination :: Fibrination (n.) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations..

Pectination :: Pectination (n.) Comblike toothing.

Reis :: Reis (n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents..

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