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Incompatible :: Incompatible (a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines..

Anthracoid :: Anthracoid (a.) Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe..

Exhaust :: Exhaust (v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether..

Crasis :: Crasis (n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago..

Steer :: Steer (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..

Waybung :: Waybung (n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

Epispastic :: Epispastic (a.) Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Preterit :: Preterit (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

Acquiescence :: Acquiescence (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

Phosphoroscope :: Phosphoroscope (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Chronology :: Chronology (n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates..

Refract :: Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium..

Aeration :: Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc..

Gest :: Gest (n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.

Torrefaction :: Torrefaction (n.) The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied..

Happiness :: Happiness (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

Wrongdoing :: Wrongdoing (n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.

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