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Comparative :: Comparative (n.) The comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, the form by which the comparative degree is expressed; as, stronger, wiser, weaker, more stormy, less windy, are all comparatives..

Salute :: Salute (v.) The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting..

After-wit :: After-wit (n.) Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.

Analogy :: Analogy (n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden..

Torque :: Torque (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis..

Endwise :: Endwise (adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.

Shrewd :: Shrewd (superl.) Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish..

Better :: Better (compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits..

Flatwise :: Flatwise (a. / adv.) With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Grafting :: Grafting (n.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.

Yellows :: Yellows (n.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus..

Coridine :: Coridine (n.) A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type..

Ganesa :: Ganesa (n.) The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence.

Showish :: Showish (a.) Showy; ostentatious.

Extense :: Extense (v. t.) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise..

Sage :: Sage (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher..

Vanadinite :: Vanadinite (n.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride..

Subtonic :: Subtonic (a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202..

Manywise :: Manywise (adv.) In many different ways; variously.

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