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China :: China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain..

Form :: Form (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of..

Eclogue :: Eclogue (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established..

Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of

Miniature :: Miniature (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait..

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others..

Modernization :: Modernization (n.) The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

Modernly :: Modernly (adv.) In modern times.

Modernity :: Modernity (n.) Modernness; something modern.

Modernized :: Modernized (imp. & p. p.) of Moderniz.

Nomarchy :: Nomarchy (n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome..

Spur :: Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood..

Fenestration :: Fenestration (n.) The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions..

Minstrel :: Minstrel (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician..

Byzantine :: Byzantine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople..

Naos :: Naos (n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.

Modernizer :: Modernizer (n.) One who modernizes.

Brahmo-somaj :: Brahmo-somaj (n.) A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.

Sponsor :: Sponson (n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels..

Catchword :: Catchword (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing..

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