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Indirection :: Indirection (n.) Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

Subalmoner :: Subaid (v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly..

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

Phenose :: Phenose (n.) A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose..

Glancingly :: Glancingly (adv.) In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.

Show :: Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers)..

Artful :: Artful (a.) Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.].

Retistene :: Retistene (n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.

Circumlocution :: Circumlocution (n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

Elenctical :: Elenctical (a.) Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic..

To :: To (prep.) As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; th

To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty

Circumambage :: Circumambage (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.

Backstair :: Backstair (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To practice indirect or evasive methods.

Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..

Grudge :: Grudge (v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects..

Tax :: Tax (n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride..

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

Intimation :: Intimation (n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design..

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