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Pavid :: Pavid (a.) Timid; fearful.

Mercaptan :: Mercaptan (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals..

Gravidity :: Gravidity (n.) The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.

Saxicavid :: Saxicavid (a.) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas.

Ingravidate :: Ingravidate (v. t.) To impregnate.

Tamil :: Tamil (n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a..

Kaleidoscope :: Kaleidoscope (n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design..

Avidiously :: Avidiously (adv.) Eagerly; greedily.

Tamil :: Tamil (n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

Impavid :: Impavid (a.) Fearless.

Saxicavid :: Saxicavid (n.) A saxicava.

Avidity :: Avidity (n.) Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity..

Gittith :: Gittith (n.) A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv..

Gravid :: Gravid (a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety..

Dravida :: Dravida (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion..

Fluorine :: Fluorine (n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorles

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

Zion :: Zion (n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors..

Psalm :: Psalm (n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship..

Dravidian :: Dravidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.

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