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Mesial :: Mesial (a.) Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral..

Antiphon :: Antiphon (n.) A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone..

Tragus :: Tragus (n.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.

Confalon :: Confalon (n.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents..

Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..

Systasis :: Systaltic (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart..

Internuncial :: Internuncial (a.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.

Paradigm :: Paradigm (n.) An example; a model; a pattern.

Energy :: Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.

Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Hip :: Hip (n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions..

Sandwich :: Sandwich (v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard..

Tern :: Tern (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.

Sea-bar :: Sea-bar (n.) A tern.

Gittern :: Gittern (n.) An instrument like a guitar.

Hyosternum :: Hyosternum (n.) See Hyoplastron.

Cayugas :: Cayugas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations..

Elasticity :: Elasticity (n.) The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass..

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