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Regent :: Regent (a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign..

Sesquitone :: Sesquitone (n.) A minor third, or interval of three semitones..

Acanthus :: Acanthus (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech..

Fronde :: Fronde (n.) A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party..

Gens :: Gens (a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem..

Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders..

Alluminor :: Alluminor (n.) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.

C :: C () The keynote of the normal or natural scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same..

Oblatum :: Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

Liquidambar :: Liquidambar (n.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor..

Milesian :: Milesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants..

Minorite :: Minorite (n.) A Franciscan friar.

Hickway :: Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.

Nonage :: Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..

Testamentary :: Testamentary (a.) Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age..

Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar..

Story :: Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance..

Minor :: Minor (n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age..

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