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Internuncial :: Internuncial (a.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.

Annunciated :: Annunciated (imp. & p. p.) of Annunciat.

Nuncupative :: Nuncupative (a.) Nominal; existing only in name.

Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun..

N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,

Wimple :: Wimple (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns..

Jesuitess :: "Jesuitess (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633..

Andropetalous :: Andropetalous (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus..

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Articulate :: Articulate (v. i.) To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

Prioress :: Prioress (n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess..

Mousetail :: Mousetail (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse..

Cuckoobud :: Cuckoobud (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup..

Nundinate :: Nundinate (a.) To buy and sell at fairs or markets.

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

Avulsion :: Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner..

Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.

Convent :: Convent (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.

Nuncupate :: Nuncupate (v. t.) To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book..

Internuncio :: Internuncio (n.) A messenger between two parties.

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