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Secularize :: Secularize (v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property..

Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..

Applicatory :: Applicatory (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.

Ode :: Ode (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style..

Dose :: Dose (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses..

Animalize :: Animalize (v. t.) To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

Common :: Common (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer..

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist..

Hypocarpium :: Hypocarpium (n.) A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew..

Electrometer :: Electrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope)..

Archy :: archy () A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch..

Talismanical :: Talismanical (a.) Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical..

Respite :: Respite (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

Eatable :: Eatable (a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

Pseudosphere :: Pseudosphere (n.) The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity..

Suit :: Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word..

Unthriftily :: Unthriftily (adv.) Improperly; unbecomingly.

Amiss :: Amiss (adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.

Appropriately :: Appropriately (adv.) In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

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