Definition of on

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On (prep.) To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth..

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Adverseness :: Adverseness (n.) The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
Stational :: Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa..
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
Ereption :: Ereption (n.) A snatching away.
Pycnodont :: Pycnodont (n.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing..
Sleet :: Sleet (n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways..
Pecker :: Pecker (n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker..
Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..
Glossanthrax :: Glossanthrax (n.) A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Intern :: Intern (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country..
Countess :: Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count..
Ninth :: Ninth (n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
Bimastism :: Bimastism (n.) The condition of having two mammae or teats.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head..
Darrein :: Darrein (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance..
Tarantass :: Tarantass (n.) A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge..
Com- :: Com- () A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants..
Start :: Start (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act..
Believer :: Believer (n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing..
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