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Hemitrope :: Hemitrope (n.) That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..

Enorthotrope :: Enorthotrope (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope..

Footrope :: Footrope (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse..

Boraginaceous :: Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) See Bloodstone (a).

Heliograph :: Heliograph (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3..

Reotrope :: Reotrope (n.) See Rheotrope.

Breastrope :: Breastrope (n.) See Breastband.

Horse :: Horse (n.) See Footrope, a..

Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

Epitrope :: Epitrope (n.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., He that is unjust, let him be unjust still..

Thaumatrope :: Thaumatrope (n.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Sematrope :: Sematrope (n.) An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Heliotroper :: Heliotroper (n.) The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Tropeine :: Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

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