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Impluvium :: Impluvium (n.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm..

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

Ladanum :: Ladanum (n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation..

Back :: Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc..

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..

Ethicist :: Ethicist (n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics..

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

Leader :: Leader (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

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.

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..

Itacist :: Itacist (n.) One who is in favor of itacism.

Abacist :: Abacist (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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

Classicist :: Classicist (n.) One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Biblist :: Biblist (n.) A biblical scholar; a biblicist.

Sump :: Sump (n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there..

Solecistically :: Solecistically (adv.) In a solecistic manner.

Myrrh :: Myrrh (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose..

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