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Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession..

Bottom :: Bottom (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread..

Goodman :: Goodman (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.

Vulgarization :: Vulgarization (n.) The act or process of making vulgar, or common..

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Crick :: Crick (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it..

Trappous :: Trappous (n.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy..

Emptying :: Emptying (n.) The act of making empty.

Waking :: Waking (n.) A watch; a watching.

Tenaculum :: Tenaculum (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like..

Like :: Like (superl.) Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil..

German :: German (a.) Nearly related; closely akin.

Zinc :: Zinc (n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9..

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Pseudo-cone :: Pseudo-cone (n.) One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others..

Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get..

Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign..

Sublative :: Sublation (n.) The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

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