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Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as immediate inference by privative conception..

Wormian :: Wormian (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist..

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..

Orb :: Orb (n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit..

"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..

Brownian :: Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below..

"""haemony " :: Haemony (n.) A plant described by Milton as of sovereign use against all enchantments..

Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

Houyhnhnm :: Houyhnhnm (n.) One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men..

Oblatum :: Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..

Described :: Described (imp. & p. p.) of Describ.

Passionary :: Passionary (n.) A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..

Aforesaid :: Aforesaid (a.) Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified..

Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described..

Witch :: Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera..

Unspeakable :: Unspeakable (a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage..

Laputan :: Laputan (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy..

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