Definition of local

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Local (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published..

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Cowberry :: Cowberry (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry..
Febriferous :: Febriferous (a.) Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality..
Sensorium :: Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations..
Supernal :: Supernal (a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions..
Ling :: Ling (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia..
Surgeon :: Surgeon (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment..
Tic :: Tic (n.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic..
Folkmote :: Folkmote (n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court..
Polymorphism :: Polymorphism (n.) Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents..
Cocaine :: Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain..
Zillah :: Zillah (n.) A district or local division, as of a province..
Surgery :: Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment..
Set :: Set (n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality..
Authority :: Authority (n.) Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities..
Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles..
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges..
Toadstone :: Toadstone (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores..
Twinge :: Twinge (n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side..
Pigfish :: Pigfish (n.) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.
Dietine :: Dietine (n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
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