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Reproach :: Reproach (v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach..

Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection..

Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..

Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..

Considerer :: Considerer (n.) One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker.

Refract :: Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium..

Aim :: Aim (v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)..

Reflecting :: Reflecting (a.) Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind..

Rash :: Rash (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures..

Reflectingly :: Reflectingly (adv.) With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully..

Catadioptrical :: Catadioptrical (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light..

Solemn :: Solemn (a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness..

Consternation :: Consternation (n.) Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay..

Superregal :: Superreflection (n.) The reflection of a reflected image or sound.

Anacamptically :: Anacamptically (adv.) By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically..

Gnomology :: Gnomology (n.) A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections..

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Adularia :: Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone..

Twilight :: Twilight (n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18? below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth..

Epiphonema :: Epiphonema (n.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse..

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