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Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..

Alternative :: Alternative (a.) Alternate; reciprocal.

Checkered :: Checkered (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence..

Interchange :: Interchange (v. i.) To make an interchange; to alternate.

Potent :: Potent (n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned..

Toothing :: Toothing (n.) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up..

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal..

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent..

Boustrophedon :: Boustrophedon (n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite..

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Rugate :: Rugate (a.) Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.

Vibration :: Vibration (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever..

Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out..

Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Alternation :: Alternation (n.) The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear..

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