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Scapulet :: Scapulet (n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.

Minute :: Minute (n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20')..

C. G. S. :: C. G. S. () An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time..

Hockday :: Hockday (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide..

Polycrotism :: Polycrotism (n.) That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism..

Zif :: Zif (n.) The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May..

Heteropelmous :: Heteropelmous (a.) Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append..

Power :: Power (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number..

Easter :: Easter (n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask..

Antispast :: Antispast (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#)..

Recombination :: Recombination (n.) Combination a second or additional time.

Review :: Review (n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life..

Eftsoons :: Eftsoons (adv.) Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.

Recolonization :: Recolonization (n.) A second or renewed colonization.

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

Repass :: Repass (v. t.) To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea..

Reordination :: Reordination (n.) A second ordination.

Montanist :: Montanist (n.) A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life..

Dotard :: Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.

Hogget :: Hogget (n.) A young boar of the second year.

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