Definition of power

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Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power..

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Semen :: Semen (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power..
Command :: Command (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge..
Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..
Craft :: Craft (n.) Strength; might; secret power.
Camerlingo :: Camerlingo (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.
Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers..
Breast :: Breast (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast..
Dazzle :: Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
Recollection :: Recollection (n.) The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection..
Power :: Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish..
Restorative :: Restorative (a.) Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
Atropine :: Atropine (n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine..
Iron :: Iron (n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;.
Tractive :: Tractive (a.) Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power..
Windmill :: Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft..
Subject :: Subject (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain..
Bimedial :: Bimedial (a.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
Aphemia :: Aphemia (n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin..
Virtue :: Virtue (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine..
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