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Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A

Legislature :: Legislature (n.) The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

Protector :: Protector (n.) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.

Vermes :: Vermes (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers..

Theocracy :: Theocracy (n.) The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom..

Partition :: Partition (v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom..

Praemunire :: Praemunire (n.) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom..

Protoorganism :: Protoorganism (n.) An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

Phylum :: Phylum (n.) One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

Hall-mark :: Hall-mark (n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers..

Bloody Hand :: Bloody hand () A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom..

Protozoa :: Protozoa (n. pl.) The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.

Exogen :: Exogen (n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen..

Judahite :: Judahite (n.) One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew.

Underkingdom :: Underkingdom (n.) A subordinate or dependent kingdom.

Leucin :: Leucin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid..

Echinodermata :: Echinodermata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.

Tunicata :: Tunicata (n. pl.) A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and se

Lessen :: Lessen (a.) To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune..

Mineral :: Mineral (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral)..

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