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Thionol :: Thionol (n.) A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Harl :: Harl (n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp..

Hebe :: Hebe (n.) The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them..

Hayward :: Hayward (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large..

Euhemerize :: Euhemerize (v. t.) To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Associator :: Associator (n.) An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme.

Testify :: Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them..

Palama :: Palama (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together..

Exclaim :: Exclaim (v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; The field is won! he exclaimed..

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..

Hemmer :: Hemmer (n.) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

Dux :: Dux (n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion..

Hemiprotein :: Hemiprotein (n.) An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone..

Fib :: Fib (n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.

Quixotry :: Quixotry (n.) Quixotism; visionary schemes.

Panslavism :: Panslavism (n.) A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

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