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Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men..

Calligraphic :: Calligraphic (a.) Alt. of Calligraphica.

Tumpline :: Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.

Hagiographa :: Hagiographa (n. pl.) The lives of the saints.

Tetragonal :: Tetragonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers..

Tomopteris :: Tomopteris (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa..

Calcographer :: Calcographer (n.) One who practices calcography.

Tetraphenol :: Tetraphenol (n.) Furfuran.

Arcograph :: Arcograph (n.) An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Bond :: Bond (n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence..

Rugine :: Rugine (n.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

Paramiographer :: Paramiographer (n.) A collector or writer of proverbs.

Kite :: Kite (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.

Chatter :: Chatter (v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.

Therapeutic :: Therapeutic (a.) Alt. of Therapeutica.

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet..

Move :: Move (v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly..

Hyperapophyses :: Hyperapophyses (pl. ) of Hyperapophysi.

Ichthyography :: Ichthyography (n.) A treatise on fishes.

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