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Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.

Bay :: Bay (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.

Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

Capable :: Capable (a.) Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will..

Short :: Short (superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv..

Excerpt :: Excerpt (v. t.) To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book..

Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used..

Subtractive :: Subtractive (a.) Tending, or having power, to subtract..

Spasm :: Spasm (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

Atony :: Atony (n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile..

Continue :: Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Igasurine :: Igasurine (n.) An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Morass :: Morass (n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen..

Tetractinellid :: Tetractinellid (n.) Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.

Scrapbook :: Scrapbook (n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

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