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Determination :: Determination (n.) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air..

Moth :: Moth (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc..

Interlocution :: Interlocution (n.) An intermediate act or decree before final decision.

Procuratorship :: Procuratorship (n.) The office or term of a procurator.

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

Distributive :: Distributive (a.) Assigning the species of a general term.

Curtail :: Curtail (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc..

Mynchery :: Mynchery (n.) A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.

Priapulacea :: Priapulacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills..

Exterminatory :: Exterminatory (a.) Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.

Affirmative :: Affirmative (a.) Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

Intermuscular :: Intermuscular (a.) Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa..

Include :: Include (v. t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.

Exterminated :: Exterminated (imp. & p. p.) of Exterminat.

Wise :: Wise (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination..

Genus :: Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms..

Flittern :: Flittern (a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

Hottentotism :: Hottentotism (n.) A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.

Spermatozoid :: Spermatozoid (n.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid..

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