Definition of city
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City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..
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Subdue ::
Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..
Subsidiary ::
Subsidiary (a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream..
Bergmeal ::
Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..
Paragrele ::
Paragrele (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms..
Thermoelectricity ::
Thermoelectricity (n.) Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
Vivacity ::
Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance..
Gehenna ::
Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
Platymeter ::
Platymeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics..
Nepa ::
Nepa (n.) A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
Incapacitation ::
Incapacitation (n.) The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
Calculated ::
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball..
Whirl ::
Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
Babel ::
Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Thunderclap ::
Thunderclap (n.) A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Infinity ::
Infinity (n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections..
Mordacity ::
Mordacity (n.) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality..
Voltaism ::
Voltaism (n.) That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals..
Correlation ::
Correlation (n.) Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases..
Fill ::
Fill (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind..
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