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Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides..

Compone :: Compone (a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony..

Counter-paly :: Counter-paly (a.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure..

Decussated :: Decussated (a.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period..

Interline :: Interline (v. t.) To arrange in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English..

Siniate :: Siniate (a.) Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

Vary :: Vary (v. i.) To alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another..

Sea Pie :: Sea pie () A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie..

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

Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds..

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..

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..

Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other..

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..

Systasis :: Systaltic (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart..

Litany :: Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character..

Endogen :: Endogen (n.) A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the grea

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver..

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