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Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

Tasting :: Tasting (n.) The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

Action :: Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

Melodeon :: Melodeon (n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.

Pedal :: Pedal (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle..

Mask :: Mask (n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ..

Ciliary :: Ciliary (a.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion..

Hydraulicon :: Hydraulicon (n.) An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.

Pudendum :: Pudendum (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva..

Analogue :: Analogue (n.) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations..

Brain :: Brain (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding..

Sputter :: Sputter (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech..

Hilum :: Hilum (n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney..

Glide :: Glide (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element)

Physiological :: Physiological (a.) Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry..

Trust :: Trust (n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust..

Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..

Organizer :: Organizer (n.) One who organizes.

Ectorganism :: Ectorganism (n.) An external parasitic organism.

Thalassography :: Thalassography (n.) The study or science of the life of marine organisms.

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