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Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

Cephaloptera :: Cephaloptera (n.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton..

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb..

Anticathode :: Anticathode (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..

Antic :: Antic (v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon.

Colossal :: Colossal (a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue..

Frenzied :: Frenzied (p. p. & a.) Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

Bathos :: Bathos (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax..

Anticlastic :: Anticlastic (a.) Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle..

Divine :: Divine (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

Phrenetical :: Phrenetical (a.) Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic.

Coachman :: Coachman (n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin..

Romantic :: Romantic (a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind..

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear..

Sulphureity :: Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale..

Clawback :: Clawback (a.) Flattering; sycophantic.

Spot :: Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife..

Apteryx :: Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known..

Mantic :: Mantic (a.) Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic..

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