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Bernardine :: Bernardine (n.) A Cistercian monk.

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.

Fraunhofer Lines :: Fraunhofer lines () The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist..

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Cistercian :: Cistercian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.

Moccasin :: Moccasin (n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles..

Hylicist :: Hylicist (n.) A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

Technicist :: Technicist (n.) One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

Tank :: Tank (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..

Exorciser :: Exorciser (n.) An exorcist.

Exorcist :: Exorcist (n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Steepiness :: Steeper (n.) A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped..

Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

Catch-basin :: Catch-basin (n.) A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer..

Bac :: Bac (n.) A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.

Empty :: Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern..

Alopecist :: Alopecist (n.) A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

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