Definition of only

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Only (a.) Hence, figuratively: Alone, by reason of superiority; preeminent; chief..

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Cassius :: Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius..
Only :: Only (conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration..
Modal :: Modal (a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
Shallow-waisted :: Shallow-waisted (a.) Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel..
Sirvente :: Sirvente (n.) A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages..
Nuptial :: Nuptial (n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.
Sensualism :: Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism..
Cleche :: Cleche (a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided..
Attrition :: Attrition (n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..
Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..
Thelytokous :: Thelytokous (a.) Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.
Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Shiah :: Shiah (n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans..
Vermes :: Vermes (n. pl.) A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders..
Manuscript :: Manuscript (a.) Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript..
Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor..
Agnation :: Agnation (n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation..
Rhynchocephala :: Rhynchocephala (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia..
Rival :: Rival (n.) One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown..
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