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Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..

Brumaire :: Brumaire (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

Son :: Son (n.) Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Yankee-doodle :: Yankee-Doodle (n.) The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.

Adoptious :: Adoptious (a.) Adopted.

Unit :: Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind..

Standardize :: Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders..

Doric :: Doric (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order..

Denizen :: Denizen (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Adopted :: Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word..

Denizen :: Denizen (n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen..

Tabard :: Tabard (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds..

Franc :: Franc (a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes..

Ostracism :: Ostracism (n.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage..

Ulterior :: Ulterior (a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain..

Adopt :: Adopt (v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted..

Denization :: Denization (n.) The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

Listing :: Listing (n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops..

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