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A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.

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One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

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A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as a…

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Any part of a curved line.

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The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- o…

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Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered w…

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The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

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An apparatus for weighing.

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A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a wi…

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Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.

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Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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of Board

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The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passagewa…

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of Build

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A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partiall…

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A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

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a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…

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A keel

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A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

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Hollowness.

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Alt. of Chiasma

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A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.

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A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

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To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

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A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and…

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Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

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The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.

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The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

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A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

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A rib of an animal or a human being.

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To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

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See Defense.

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Alt. of Defence

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One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

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An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

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A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

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Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

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Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equa…

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The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act…

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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or fe…

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A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

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The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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A spring of water issuing from the earth.

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The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

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The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

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A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of wh…

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That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism app…

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The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.

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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw.…

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A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

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That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

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A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle w…

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That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a nar…

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The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

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A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of…

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One who, or that which, lays.

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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

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of Lodge

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A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

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The art or occupation of a mason.

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The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

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Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

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Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

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That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologi…

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A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmount…

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A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both…

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A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.

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One who obstructs or hinders.

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The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

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The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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A footpath; a road.

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The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.

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The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

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The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not suppor…

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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

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of Plexus

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A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Po…

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The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.

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A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting w…

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The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

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The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the…

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A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

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One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.

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The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

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The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.

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imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

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A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. I…

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See Story.

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A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Same as Substruction.

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Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis

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Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

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A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.

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An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had of…

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A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

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The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.

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The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.

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of Vault

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A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite…

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A source, spring, or fountain.

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A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

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A zone or band; a layer.

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A girdle; a cincture.

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a man-made object taken as a whole

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a man-made object taken as a whole

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The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

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The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

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Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

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The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

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The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.

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To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing,…

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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Foundation.

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That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.

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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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Same as Substruction.

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The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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