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Anemorphilous
adjective · 78% connection
Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
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Anemoscope
noun · 78% connection
An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…
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Appellative
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
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Band
verb · 78% connection
A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound t…
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Basil
noun · 78% connection
The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
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Bombardon
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…
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Bramah press
unknown · 78% connection
A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.
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Brassy
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
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Claret
noun · 78% connection
The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name…
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Cornet
noun · 78% connection
An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
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Cornet-a-piston
noun · 78% connection
A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
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Fiction
noun · 78% connection
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
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Gunter's scale
unknown · 78% connection
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter'…
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Horn
noun · 78% connection
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and…
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Instrument
noun · 78% connection
That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechani…
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Knuckle
noun · 78% connection
The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
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Lacasterian
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a schoo…
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Latten
noun · 78% connection
A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called al…
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