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Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..

Entry :: Entry (n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine..

Gravity :: Gravity (a.) The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil..

Introductory :: Introductory (a.) Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse..

Entice :: Entice (v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen..

Uraninite :: Uraninite (n.) A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende..

Snood :: Snood (n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.

Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis..

Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..

Linarite :: Linarite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

Narthex :: Narthex (n.) The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church..

Lagging :: Lagging (n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading..

Tree :: Tree (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead..

Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows..

Argentiferous :: Argentiferous (a.) Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins..

Madrina :: Madrina (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules..

Placitory :: Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law..

Psalmist :: Psalmist (n.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church..

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