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Incommensurable :: Incommensurable (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable..

Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Escrow :: Escrow (n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee..

Adoration :: Adoration (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.

Tiers Etat :: Tiers etat () The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy..

Trident :: Trident (n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction..

Section :: Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point..

Hemiditone :: Hemiditone (n.) The lesser third.

Omasum :: Omasum (n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant..

Medius :: Medius (n.) The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it..

Haw :: Haw (n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate..

Tri- :: Tri- () A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride..

Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..

Ischiocerite :: Ischiocerite (n.) The third joint or the antennae of the Crustacea.

Triens :: Triens (n.) A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2..

Tri/cia :: Tri/cia (n. pl.) The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.

Trifallow :: Trifallow (v. t.) To plow the third time before sowing, as land..

Harderian :: Harderian (a.) A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate..

Villanelle :: Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close..

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