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Masterwort :: Masterwort (n.) The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre..

Faction :: Faction (n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good..

Apotome :: Apotome (n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.

Bare :: Bare (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority..

Major General :: Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps..

Majority :: Majority (n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished..

Maggiore :: Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major..

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major..

Charles''s Wain :: Charles's Wain () The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..

Majority :: Majority (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast..

Do :: Do (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet..

Epichirema :: Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner..

Aid-major :: Aid-major (n.) The adjutant of a regiment.

Dog Star :: Dog Star () Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days..

Major :: Major (a.) Of greater dignity; more important.

Wagoner :: Wagoner (n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa..

Majorate :: Majorate (n.) The office or rank of a major.

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