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Literal :: Literal (a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.

Circumscriptly :: Circumscriptly (adv.) In a literal, limited, or narrow manner..

Literalize :: Literalize (v. t.) To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture..

Triliteralness :: Triliteralness (n.) The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots..

Literalness :: Literalness (n.) The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

Chlorophyll :: Chlorophyll (n.) Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals..

Nominal :: Nominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition..

Topic :: Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory..

Triliterality :: Triliterality (n.) Alt. of Triliteralnes.

Philosophy :: Philosophy (n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws..

Biliteralism :: Biliteralism (n.) The property or state of being biliteral.

Effusion :: Effusion (n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively..

Illiteral :: Illiteral (a.) Not literal.

Syllepsis :: Syllepsis (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

Sow :: Sow (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

Figured :: Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative.

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

Gobemouche :: Gobemouche (n.) Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person..

Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A wing, literal or figurative..

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