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Mine :: Mine (v. i.) To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony..

Staurotide :: Stauroscope (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

Degree :: Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree..

Measure :: Measure (n.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance..

Hypsometer :: Hypsometer (n.) An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition..

Angioscope :: Angioscope (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

Diathermometer :: Diathermometer (n.) An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.

Stereometric :: Stereometer (n.) An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids..

Dice :: Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n..

Terminative :: Terminative (a.) Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

Urinometer :: Urinometer (n.) A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.

Lot :: Lot (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots..

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Chronoscope :: Chronoscope (n.) An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc..

Preexamining :: Preexamining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preexamin.

Predestinative :: Predestinative (a.) Determining beforehand; predestinating.

Pedomancy :: Pedomancy (n.) Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Electro-bioscopy :: Electro-bioscopy (n.) A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction..

Auger :: Auger (n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water..

Dichroscope :: Dichroscope (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

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