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Designation :: Designation (n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase..

Nomination :: Nomination (n.) The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

Totem :: Totem (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan..

Equipment :: Equipment (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments..

Mikado :: Mikado (n.) The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..

Reis :: Reis (n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents..

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made..

Papist :: Papist (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

Designation :: Designation (n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

Micronesian :: Micronesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc..

Homonymy :: Homonymy (n.) Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..

Heteronymous :: Heteronymous (a.) Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.

Rogue :: Rogue (v. t.) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

Namely :: Namely (adv.) That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular or specific designation.

Toponomy :: Toponomy (n.) The designation of position and direction.

Specification :: Specification (n.) The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer..

How :: How (adv.) By what name, designation, or title..

Emblem :: Emblem (n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity..

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