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Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

Matrix :: Matrix (n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

Forthwith :: Forthwith (adv.) As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.

Mirage :: Mirage (n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen pr

Bombazet Bombazette :: Bombazet Bombazette (n.) A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled..

Potential :: Potential (n.) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.

Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy

Half :: Half (a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple..

Rocking-chair :: Rocking-chair (n.) A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock..

Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened..

Divulge :: Divulge (v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret..

Subvitalized :: Subvertible (a.) That may be subverted.

Candlefish :: Candlefish (n.) A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

Stage :: Stage (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Water Privilege :: Water privilege () The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege..

Remoulad :: Remoulad (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

In Esse :: In esse () In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be..

Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..

Whoever :: Whoever (pron.) Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be..

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