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Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Relative :: Relative (a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject..

Cold :: Cold (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Man :: Man (n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant..

Hypsometry :: Hypsometry (n.) That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively..

Correlative :: Correlative (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing..

Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.

Debtee :: Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Whether :: Whether (pron.) Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.

Irrelation :: Irrelation (n.) The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.

#NAME? :: -or () A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er..

What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative..

Figure :: Figure (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

Spell :: Spell (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks..

Osmious :: Osmious (a.) Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride..

Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.

Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

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