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Partisan :: Partisan (a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal..

Wheel-worn :: Wheel-worn (a.) Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road..

Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal..

Intake :: Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

Extreat :: Extreat (n.) Extraction.

Withdrawal :: Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Melodiograph :: Melodiograph (n.) A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon..

Adipic :: Adipic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial..

Even :: Even (a.) Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct..

Tensive :: Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction..

Diabolism :: Diabolism (n.) Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil..

Irrational :: Irrational (a.) Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Deed :: Deed (v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small..

Heroic :: Heroic (a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises..

Fluvialist :: Fluvialist (n.) One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.

Run :: Run (a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog..

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