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Definition & Synonyms
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• Monotype
- (a.) Alt. of Monotypic
- (n.) The only representative of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.
- (n.) A kind of typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets individual types.
- (n.) A print (but one impression can be taken) made by painting on metal and then transferring the painting to paper by pressure; also, the process of making such prints.
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• Telescope
- (a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.
- (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
- (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
- (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
Synonyms:
Scope,
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• Unripe
- (a.) Developing too early; premature.
- (a.) Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.
Synonyms:
Green, Immature,
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• Rareripe
- (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
- (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
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• Overripe
- (a.) Matured to excess.
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• Red-tape
- (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
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• Weeping-ripe
- (a.) Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
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• Slape
- (a.) Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.
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• Perhaps
- (adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.
Synonyms:
Maybe, Peradventure, Perchance, Possibly,
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• Shipshape
- (adv.) In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
- (a.) Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Synonyms:
Trim,
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• Midships
- (adv.) In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.
- (n. pl.) The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel.
Synonyms:
Amidships,
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• Top-rope
- (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
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• Towrope
- (n.) A rope used in towing vessels.
Synonyms:
Towline,
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• Waterscape
- (n.) A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.
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• Seismoscope
- (n.) A seismometer.
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• Pericope
- (n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
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• Semicope
- (n.) A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.
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• Schappe
- (n.) A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.
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• Type
- (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- (n.) Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
- (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.
- (n.) The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
- (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.
- (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- (n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.
- (n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
- (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
Synonyms:
Case, Character, Eccentric, Typewrite,
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• Mutoscope
- (n.) A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.
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• Logotype
- (n.) A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.
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• Spinthariscope
- (n.) A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the / rays are thus rendered visible.
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• Rhinoscope
- (n.) A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.
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• Mumps
- (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
- (n.) Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
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• Microspectroscope
- (n.) A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
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• Telespectroscope
- (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
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• Meatoscope
- (n.) A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.
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• Pape
- (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.
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• Telestereoscope
- (n.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
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• Stupe
- (n.) A stupid person.
- (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.
- (v. t.) To foment with a stupe.
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• Supe
- (n.) A super.
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• Standpipe
- (n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.
- (n.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.
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• Palaeotype
- (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
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• Periodoscope
- (n.) A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women.
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• Phototelescope
- (n.) A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
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• Trompe
- (n.) A trumpet; a trump.
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• Twire-pipe
- (n.) A vagabond musician.
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• Pyrope
- (n.) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.
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• Spiroscope
- (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
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• Praecipe
- (n.) A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it.
- (n.) A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.
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• Lagniappe
- (n.) Alt. of Lagnappe
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• Skiascope
- (n.) Alt. of Sciascope
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• Leucoethiops
- (n.) An albino.
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• Ozonoscope
- (n.) An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.
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• Stomatoscope
- (n.) An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.
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• Tachistoscope
- (n.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
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• Phosphoroscope
- (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.
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• Trichinoscope
- (n.) An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
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• Tachyscope
- (n.) An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschutz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
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• Telotype
- (n.) An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.
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• Photo-electrotype
- (n.) An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.
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• Voltatype
- (n.) An electrotype.
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• Outlope
- (n.) An excursion.
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• Onomatope
- (n.) An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.
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• Volumescope
- (n.) An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, etc.
- (n.) An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
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• Polariscope
- (n.) An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.
Synonyms:
Polarimeter,
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• Melanoscope
- (n.) An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.
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• Orthoscope
- (n.) An instrument designed to show the condition of the superficial portions of the eye.
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• Sideroscope
- (n.) An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
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• Rheoscope
- (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
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• Lactoscope
- (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
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• Otoscope
- (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
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• Otheoscope
- (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter.
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• Thermoscope
- (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.
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• Pyroscope
- (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf.
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• Meteoroscope
- (n.) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
- (n.) An astrolabe; a planisphere.
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• Nephoscope
- (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
- (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
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• Phonoscope
- (n.) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.
- (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.
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• Rheotrope
- (n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
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• Oscilloscope
- (n.) An instrument for showing visually the changes in a varying current; an oscillograph.
Synonyms:
Scope,
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• Sematrope
- (n.) An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
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• Phakoscope
- (n.) An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.
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• Phoneidoscope
- (n.) An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.
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• Telegraphoscope
- (n.) An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.
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• Ophthalmoscope
- (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.
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• Urethroscope
- (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.
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• Teinoscope
- (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
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• Telengiscope
- (n.) An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.
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• Vibroscope
- (n.) An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
- (n.) An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
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• Scotoscope
- (n.) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
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• Pseudoscope
- (n.) An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.
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• Stereomonoscope
- (n.) An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
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• Opeidoscope
- (n.) An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the tube, as by speaking or singing into it.
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• Larungoscope
- (n.) An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.
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• Leucoscope
- (n.) An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.
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• Praxinoscope
- (n.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
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• Mesotype
- (n.) An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
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• Polemoscope
- (n.) An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, / side, opera glass.
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• Megalethoscope
- (n.) An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
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• Spectroscope
- (n.) An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.
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• Stereoscope
- (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.
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• Periscope
- (n.) an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.
- (n.) A general or comprehensive view.
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• Thaumatrope
- (n.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
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• Phantascope
- (n.) An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.
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• Stauroscope
- (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
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• Microscope
- (n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
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• Stroboscope
- (n.) An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.
- (n.) An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.
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• Prototype
- (n.) An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
Synonyms:
Epitome, Image, Paradigm,
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• Kipe
- (n.) An osier basket used for catching fish.
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• Telelectroscope
- (n.) Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.
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• Thrips
- (n.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
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• Pettychaps
- (n.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
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• Promerops
- (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.
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• Sundrops
- (n.) Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Oenothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.
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• Phalarope
- (n.) Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallae), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.
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• Photoscope
- (n.) Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.
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• Wardcorps
- (n.) Guardian; one set to watch over another.
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• Schnapps
- (n.) Holland gin.
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• Lagnappe
- (n.) In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity.
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• Lapps
- (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
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• Props
- (n. pl.) A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.
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• Lenni-Lenape
- (n. pl.) A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.
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• Shaps
- (n. pl.) Chaparajos.
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• Traps
- (n. pl.) Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
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• Underchaps
- (n. pl.) The lower chaps or jaw.
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• Loups
- (n. pl.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
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• Serape
- (n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
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• Nope
- (n.) A bullfinch.
- (n.) A bullfinch.
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• Tidytips
- (n.) A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.
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• Troupe
- (n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
Synonyms:
Company,
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• Porotype
- (n.) A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.
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• Sciascope
- (n.) A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows.
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• Photochromoscope
- (n.) A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.
- (n.) A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in the colors of nature. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.
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• Numps
- (n.) A dolt; a blockhead.
- (n.) A dolt; a blockhead.
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• Mope
- (n.) A dull, spiritless person.
- (v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
- (v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
Synonyms:
Dallier, Lounger,
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• Myrioscope
- (n.) A form of kaleidoscope.
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• Vitascope
- (n.) A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.
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• Recipe
- (n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.
Synonyms:
Formula,
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• Penelope
- (n.) A genus of curassows, including the guans.
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• Laelaps
- (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
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• Stylops
- (n.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
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• Phacops
- (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.
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• Polyscope
- (n.) A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass.
- (n.) An apparatus for affording a view of the different cavities of the body.
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• Thorpe
- (n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.
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• Misanthrope
- (n.) A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.
Synonyms:
Misanthropist,
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• Lycanthrope
- (n.) A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
- (n.) One affected with lycanthropy.
Synonyms:
Werewolf,
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• Linotype
- (n.) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.
- (n.) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines.
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• Megalops
- (n.) A large fish; the tarpum.
- (n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
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• Stanhope
- (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
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• Wincopipe
- (n.) A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.
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• Megascope
- (n.) A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
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• Metroscope
- (n.) A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
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• Tope
- (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
- (n.) The wren.
- (n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, millers dog, and penny dog.
- (n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
- (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Synonyms:
Drink,
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• Triceps
- (n.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
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• Slype
- (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
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• Niloscope
- (n.) A Nilometer.
- (n.) A Nilometer.
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• Pantascope
- (n.) A pantascopic camera.
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• Stripe
- (n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- (n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
- (n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
- (v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
- (n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
- (n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
- (v. t.) To strike; to lash.
- (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
- (n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
Synonyms:
Band, Banding, Chevron, Streak,
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• Syncope
- (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.
- (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
- (n.) Same as Syncopation.
- (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, neer for never, evry for every.
Synonyms:
Faint, Swoon, Syncopation,
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• Myope
- (n.) A person having myopy; a myops.
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• Philanthrope
- (n.) A philanthropist.
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• Stannotype
- (n.) A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.
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• Photomezzotype
- (n.) A photomechanical process similar to collotype.
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• Thermotype
- (n.) A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression.
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• Melotype
- (n.) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.
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• Seascape
- (n.) A picture representing a scene at sea.
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• Opalotype
- (n.) A picture taken on "milky" glass.
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• Shrape
- (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
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• Phototype
- (n.) A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.
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• Telepolariscope
- (n.) A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
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• Melanotype
- (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.
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• Woodbury-type
- (n.) A print from such a plate.
- (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
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• Pupe
- (n.) A pupa.
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• Pluvioscope
- (n.) A rain gauge.
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• Rathripe
- (n.) A rareripe.
- (a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.
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• Pinedrops
- (n.) A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.
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• Phenakistoscope
- (n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
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• Nyctalops
- (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.
- (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.
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• Platetrope
- (n.) One of a pair of a paired organs.
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• Partenope
- (n.) One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
- (n.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.
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• Protopope
- (n.) One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.
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• Manrope
- (n.) One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship.
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• Steppe
- (n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
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• Presbyope
- (n.) One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.
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• Olpe
- (n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.
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• Osteocope
- (n.) Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone.
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• Stovepipe
- (n.) Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
Synonyms:
Beaver, Topper,
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• Swipe
- (n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
- (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
- (v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
- (v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
- (n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
Synonyms:
Abstract, Cabbage, Filch, Hook, Lift, Pilfer, Pinch, Purloin, Sneak,
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• Scope
- (n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
- (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
- (n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
- (v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
- (n.) Extended area.
Synonyms:
Ambit, Background, Compass, Orbit, Oscilloscope, Range, Reach, Setting, Telescope,
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• Talbotype
- (n.) Same as Calotype.
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• Tintype
- (n.) Same as Ferrotype.
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• Rotascope
- (n.) Same as Gyroscope, 1.
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• Lychnoscope
- (n.) Same as Low side window, under Low, a.
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• Manoscope
- (n.) Same as Manometer.
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• Poulpe
- (n.) Same as Octopus.
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• Orycterope
- (n.) Same as Oryctere.
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• Sphygmoscope
- (n.) Same as Sphygmograph.
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• Podiceps
- (n.) See Grebe.
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• Ridgerope
- (n.) See Life line (a), under Life.
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• Liripipe
- (n.) See Liripoop.
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• Melainotype
- (n.) See Melanotype.
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• Myips
- (n.) See Myope.
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• Paleotype
- (n.) See Palaeotype.
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• Pettichaps
- (n.) See Pettychaps.
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• Phantasmascope
- (n.) See Phantascope.
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• Polype
- (n.) See Polyp.
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• Precipe
- (n.) See Praecipe, and Precept.
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• Mirrorscope
- (n.) See Projector, below.
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• Reotrope
- (n.) See Rheotrope.
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• Sope
- (n.) See Soap.
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• Swape
- (n.) See Sweep, n., 12.
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• Nappe
- (n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.
- (n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.
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• Stirps
- (n.) Stock; race; family.
- (n.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
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• Rape
- (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
- (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
- (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
- (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
- (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
- (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
- (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
- (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
- (n.) That which is snatched away.
- (v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
- (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Synonyms:
Assault, Colza, Despoil, Dishonor, Outrage, Plunder, Rapine, Ravish, Ravishment, Spoil, Violate, Violation,
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• Scape
- (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
- (n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
- (v. t. & i.) To escape.
- (n.) The shaft of a column.
- (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
- (n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
- (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
- (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- (n.) An escape.
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• Stereotype
- (n.) The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.
- (v. t.) Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- (v. t.) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
- (n.) A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
Synonyms:
Pigeonhole, Stamp,
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• Nape
- (n.) The back part of the neck.
- (n.) The back part of the neck.
Synonyms:
Nucha, Scruff,
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• Pope
- (n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
- (n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
- (n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
- (n.) A fish; the ruff.
Synonyms:
Pontiff,
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• Rampe
- (n.) The cuckoopint.
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• Swinepipe
- (n.) The European redwing.
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• Quadriceps
- (n.) The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
Synonyms:
Quad,
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• Piewipe
- (n.) The lapwing, or pewit.
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• Wipe
- (n.) The lapwing.
- (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
- (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
- (n.) A handkerchief.
- (v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
- (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
- (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
- (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
- (n.) Stain; brand.
Synonyms:
Rub,
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• Tripe
- (n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
- (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Synonyms:
Folderol, Rubbish, Trash, Trumpery, Wish-wash,
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• Slope
- (n.) The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
- (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
- (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
- (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
- (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
- (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
- (adv.) In a sloping manner.
- (a.) Sloping.
Synonyms:
Gradient, Incline, Pitch, Side,
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• Ootype
- (n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.
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• Windpipe
- (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Synonyms:
Trachea,
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• Landscape
- (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country.
- (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
- (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
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• Platinotype
- (n.) The process by which such pictures are produced.
- (n.) A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.
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• Metope
- (n.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
- (n.) The face of a crab.
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• Wype
- (n.) The wipe, or lapwing.
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• Trope
- (n.) The word or expression so used.
- (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
Synonyms:
Figure, Image,
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• Temps
- (n.) Time.
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• Shape
- (n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
- (n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
- (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- (v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
- (n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
- (n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
- (n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
- (n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
- (n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
- (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
Synonyms:
Anatomy, Build, Cast, Chassis, Condition, Configuration, Conformation, Contour, Determine, Embodiment, Figure, Flesh, Forge, Form, Frame, Influence, Mold, Mould, Pattern, Physique, Regulate, Soma, Work,
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• Wanhope
- (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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• Stope
- (p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
- (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
- (v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
- (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
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• Anamorphoscope
- (n.) An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.
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• Anemoscope
- (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
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• Angioscope
- (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
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• Anisotrope
- (a.) Alt. of Anisotropic
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• Anorthoscope
- (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.
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• Antelope
- (n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
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• Antipope
- (n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.
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• Antitype
- (n.) That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.
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• Ape
- (n.) A dupe.
- (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
- (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
- (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Synonyms:
Anthropoid, Aper, Caricature, Emulator,
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• Apocope
- (n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
- (n.) A cutting off; abscission.
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• Archetype
- (n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
- (n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
- (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
Synonyms:
Original, Pilot,
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• Aristotype
- (n.) Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.
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• Artotype
- (n.) A kind of autotype.
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• Aslope
- (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
Synonyms:
Aslant, Diagonal, Slanted, Slanting, Sloped, Sloping,
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• Asterope
- (n.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.
- (n.) One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.
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• Astroscope
- (n.) An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.
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• Auriscope
- (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
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• Authotype
- (n.) A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.
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• Autotype
- (n.) A facsimile.
- (n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Synonyms:
Autotypy, Facsimile,
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• Awhape
- (v. t.) To confound; to terrify; to amaze.
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• Bagpipe
- (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
- (v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.
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• Baroscope
- (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
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• Bed steps
- () Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
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• Bejape
- (v. t.) To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.
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• Biceps
- (n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
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• Bioscope
- (n.) A view of life; that which gives such a view.
- (n.) An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).
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• Bisa antelope
- () See Oryx.
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• Blast pipe
- () The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
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• Blowpipe
- (n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.
- (n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
Synonyms:
Blowgun, Blowtube,
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• Boltrope
- (n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
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• Breastrope
- (n.) See Breastband.
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• Broom rape
- () A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.
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• By-wipe
- (n.) A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
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• Calliope
- (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
- (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
- (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar.
- (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.
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• Calotype
- (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
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• Canape
- (n.) A sofa or divan.
- (n.) A slice or piece of bread fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, etc., are served.
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• Cantaloupe
- (n.) A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color.
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• Canton crape
- () A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape.
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• Capape
- (adv.) See Cap-a-pie.
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• Cape
- (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
- (v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
- (v. i.) To gape.
- (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
Synonyms:
Mantle, Ness,
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• Carps
- (pl. ) of Carp
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• Catpipe
- (n.) See Catcall.
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• Ceraunoscope
- (n.) An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
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• Cerotype
- (n.) A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.
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• Cesspipe
- (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.
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• Champe
- (n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
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• Chape
- (n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.
- (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
- (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
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• Chaps
- (n. pl.) The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
- (n. pl.) Short for Chaparajos.
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• Chemitype
- (n.) One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
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• Chips
- (n.) A ships carpenter.
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• Chops
- (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
- (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
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• Chromascope
- (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.
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• Chromatoscope
- (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
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• Chromatrope
- (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.
- (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.
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• Chromatype
- (n.) The process by which such picture is made.
- (n.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
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• Chromotype
- (n.) A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.
- (n.) A photographic picture in the natural colors.
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• 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.
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• Chrysotype
- (n.) 2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.
- (n.) A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
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• Clape
- (n.) A bird; the flicker.
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• Claps
- (v. t.) Variant of Clasp
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• Clepe
- (v. t.) To call, or name.
- (v. i.) To make appeal; to cry out.
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• Clumps
- (n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
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• Collodiotype
- (n.) A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
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• Collotype
- (n.) A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.
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• Concert of Europe
- () Alt. of European concert
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• Contretemps
- (n.) An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.
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• Cope
- (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
- (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
- (v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
- (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
- (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
- (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
- (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
- (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
- (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
- (v. t.) To match ones self against; to meet; to encounter.
- (n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
- (n.) A covering for the head.
- (v. i.) To exchange or barter.
Synonyms:
Contend, Coping, Deal, Grapple, Header, Manage,
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• Copps
- (n.) See Copse.
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• Cops
- (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.
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• Corps
- (n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead.
- (n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.
- (n. sing. & pl.) A body or code of laws.
- (n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
- (n.) In some countries of Europe, a form of students social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; -- Ger. spelling usually korps.
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• Coupe
- (n.) A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.
- (n.) The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.
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• Crape
- (n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.
- (n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.
Synonyms:
Crepe, Crimp, Frizz, Frizzle, Kink,
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• Craps
- (n.) A gambling game with dice.
Synonyms:
Crap shooting,
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• Crepe
- (n.) Same as Crape.
- (n.) Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.
Synonyms:
Crape,
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• Crope
- () of Creep
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• Culpe
- (n.) Blameworthiness.
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• Cyanotype
- (n.) A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
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• Cyclonoscope
- (n.) An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.
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• Cyclops
- (n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
- (n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
- (n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
Synonyms:
Water flea,
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• Cycloscope
- (n.) A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
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• Cymoscope
- (n.) Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.
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• Daguerreotype
- (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
- (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
- (v. t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
- (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
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• Debuscope
- (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.
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• Diacope
- (n.) Tmesis.
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• Diaphanoscope
- (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
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• Diaphanotype
- (n.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
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• Dichroiscope
- (n.) Same as Dichroscope.
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• Dichroscope
- (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.
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• Dipleidoscope
- (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the suns rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the suns center is on the meridian.
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• Dispope
- (v. t.) To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.
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• Dope
- (v. t.) To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin;
- (v. t.) To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.
- (n.) Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate.
- (n.) Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports.
- (v. t.) To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope.
- (v. t.) To give stupefying drugs to; to drug.
- (n.) An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps.
- (n.) Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.
Synonyms:
Booby, Cannabis, Cola, Dummy, Gage, Ganja, Grass, Poop, Pot, Sens, Sess, Skunk, Smoke, Weed,
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• Doupe
- (n.) The carrion crow.
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• Drainpipe
- (n.) A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
Synonyms:
Drain,
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• Drape
- (v. i.) To make cloth.
- (v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
- (v. t.) To rail at; to banter.
- (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Synonyms:
Curtain, Drapery, Mantle, Pall,
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• Drivepipe
- (n.) A pipe for forcing into the earth.
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• Dronepipe
- (n.) One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
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• Drupe
- (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
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• Dryobalanops
- (n.) The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.
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• Duotype
- (n.) A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.
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• Dupe
- (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on ones credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
- (n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
Synonyms:
Befool, Cod, Fool, Gull, Slang, Victim,
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• Ebullioscope
- (n.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
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• Echoscope
- (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
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• Ectype
- (n.) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
- (n.) A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
- (n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artists original work. Hence:
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• Egilops
- (n.) See Aegilops.
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• Elaps
- (n.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
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• Electroscope
- (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.
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• Electro-stereotype
- (n.) Same as Electrotype.
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• Electrotype
- (n.) A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
- (v. t.) To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.
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• Elope
- (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
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• Elops
- (n.) A mythical serpent.
- (n.) A genus of fishes. See Saury.
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• Endoscope
- (n.) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
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• Engineer Corps
- () In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field.
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• Engiscope
- (n.) A kind of reflecting microscope.
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• Enorthotrope
- (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.
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• Envelope
- (n.) Alt. of Envelop
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• Epitrope
- (n.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."
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• Escape
- (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
- (v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
- (n.) An apophyge.
- (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
- (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
- (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
- (n.) A sally.
- (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoners departure from custody.
- (n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
- (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
- (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
- (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
- (n.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation.
Synonyms:
Dodging, Elude, Evasion, Flight, Leak, Leakage, Miss, Outflow,
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• Estrepe
- (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.
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• Etape
- (n.) the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day.
- (n.) In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.
- (n.) A public storehouse.
- (n.) Supplies issued to troops on the march;
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• Ethiops
- (n.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.
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• Euterpe
- () A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.
- () The Muse who presided over music.
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• Ferrotype
- (n.) A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
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• Flipe
- (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.
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• Flue pipe
- () A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square.
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• Fluoroscope
- (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
- (n.) A fluorescent screen, with hood to protect the eyes, used for observing the shadows cast by objects placed in the path of the X rays.
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• Footrope
- (n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
- (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
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• Forceps
- (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
- (n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
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• Forshape
- (v. t.) To render misshapen.
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• Frape
- (n.) A crowd, a rabble.
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• Frappe
- (a.) Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappe.
- (n.) A frappe mixture or beverage, as a water ice, variously flavored, frozen soft, and served in glasses.
Synonyms:
Ice,
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• Galpe
- (v. i.) To gape,; to yawn.
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• Galvanoscope
- (n.) An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.
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• Gantlope
- (n.) See Gantlet.
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• Gape
- (v. i.) To open the mouth wide
- (v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
- (v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
- (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
- (n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.
- (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
- (n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
Synonyms:
Gawk, Goggle, Yaw, Yawn,
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• Lope
- (v. i.) To leap; to dance.
- (n.) An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
- (v. i.) To move with a lope, as a horse.
- (n.) A leap; a long step.
- (imp.) of Leap.
Synonyms:
Canter, Jog, Trot,
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• Sipe
- (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
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• Trape
- (v. i.) To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.
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• Ope
- (v. t. & i.) To open.
- (a.) Open.
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• Stethoscope
- (v. t.) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
- (n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
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• Snape
- (v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
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• Pipe
- (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswains whistle.
- (n.) The key or sound of the voice.
- (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherds pipe; the pipe of an organ.
- (n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
- (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
- (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
- (v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
- (v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
- (n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
- (v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
- (n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
- (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
- (n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
- (n.) A boatswains whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
- (v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
- (n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
- (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
Synonyms:
Pipage, Piping, Screech, Shriek, Shrill, Tube,
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• Threpe
- (v. t.) To call; to term.
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• Transshape
- (v. t.) To change into another shape or form; to transform.
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• Unshape
- (v. t.) To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange.
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• Unpope
- (v. t.) To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.
- (v. t.) To deprive of a pope.
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• Scrape
- (v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
- (v. i.) To occupy ones self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
- (v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
- (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
- (v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
- (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
- (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.
- (v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.
- (v. t.) To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
- (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
Synonyms:
Abrade, Abrasion, Excoriation, Genuflect, Grate, Kowtow, Mark, Scar, Scraping, Scratch, Scratching, Skin, Stub,
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• Tape
- (v. t.) To furnish with tape; to fasten, tie, bind, or the like, with tape;
- (v. t.) to cover (a wire) with insulating tape.
- (v. t.) to record on audio tape or video tape; -- either directly, at the scene of the action tape, or indirectly, as from a broadcast of the action.
- (n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
- (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Synonyms:
Record, Tapeline, Taping,
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• Recoupe
- (v. t.) To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup ones losses in the share market.
- (v. t.) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
- (v. t.) To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.
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• Ripe
- (v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
- (superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
- (superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
- (superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
- (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
- (n.) The bank of a river.
- (superl.) Intoxicated.
- (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Synonyms:
Advanced, Good, Mature, Right,
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• Snipe
- (v. t.) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
- (v. i.) To shoot at detached men of an enemys forces at long range, esp. when not in action; -- often with at.
- (v. i.) To shoot or hunt snipe.
- (v. t.) To shoot at (detached men of an enemys force) at long range, esp. when not in action.
- (n.) A fool; a blockhead.
- (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Synonyms:
Assail, Assault, Attack, Round,
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• Lithotype
- (v. t.) To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.
- (n.) A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.
- (n.) A machine, with a keyboard like that of a typewriter, for making a lithographic transfer sheet. It produces a perforated strip of paper which controls the printing.
- (n.) An etched stone surface for printing, having the design in relief; also, the process of printing from such a surface, or that which is printed from it.
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• Polytype
- (v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving.
- (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
- (v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving.
- (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping; as, a polytype plate.
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• Uncape
- (v. t.) To remove a cap or cape from.
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• Photochromotype
- (v. t.) To represent by a colored print made by any photomechanical process.
- (n.) A colored print made photomechanically.
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• Reshape
- (v. t.) To shape again.
Synonyms:
Remold,
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• Misshape
- (v. t.) To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
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• Undrape
- (v. t.) To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
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• Transhape
- (v. t.) To transshape.
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• Adeps
- (n.) Animal fat; lard.
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• Aegilops
- (n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.
- (n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
- (n.) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.
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• Aeroscope
- (n.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.
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• Aethrioscope
- (n.) An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.
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• Agape
- (n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.
- (adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
Synonyms:
Gaping,
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• Agrope
- (adv. & a.) In the act of groping.
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• Air pipe
- () A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.
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• Albertype
- (n.) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
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• Alethoscope
- (n.) An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
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• Altiscope
- (n.) An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.
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• Ambrotype
- (n.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
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• Amidships
- (adv.) In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.
Synonyms:
Midships,
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• Rope
- () A guide rope.
- (v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
- (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
- (v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
- (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
- (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
- (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
- (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
- (v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
- (n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
- (v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
Synonyms:
Lasso, Leash,
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• Victoria crape
- () A kind of cotton crape.
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• Water pipe
- () A pipe for conveying water.
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• Soil pipe
- () A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
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• Pay Cerps
- () A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.
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• Water telescope
- () A telescope devised for looking into a body of water.
- () A telescope in which the medium between the objective and the eye piece is water instead of air, used in some experiments in aberration.
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• Kneipps
- () Alt. of cure
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• Oregon grape
- () An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
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• Knock-out drops
- () Drops of some drug put in ones drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
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• Trail rope
- () Same as Guide rope, above.
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• Water antelope
- () See Water buck.
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• Sea snipe
- () The bellows fish.
- () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
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• Sea grape
- () The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
- () The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
- () A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
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• Structural shape
- () The shape of a member especially adapted to structural purposes, esp. in giving the greatest strength with the least material.
- () any steel or iron member of such shape, as channel irons, I beams, T beams, etc., or, sometimes, a column, girder, etc., built up with such members.
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• Ladies eardrops
- () The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.
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• Sea ape
- () The thrasher shark.
- () The sea otter.
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• Gasoscope
- (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
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• Gastroscope
- (n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
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• Genappe
- (n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
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• Glass-rope
- (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
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• Grape
- (n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
- (n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
- (n.) Grapeshot.
- (n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
Synonyms:
Grapevine,
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• Graphiscope
- (n.) See Graphoscope.
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• Graphoscope
- (n.) An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.
- (n.) An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.
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• Graphotype
- (n.) A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
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• Gripe
- (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
- (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
- (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
- (v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
- (n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
- (n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
- (n.) The compass or sharpness of a ships stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- (n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
- (n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- (v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
- (v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
- (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
- (n.) A vulture; the griffin.
- (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Synonyms:
Beef, Bellyache, Bitch, Grouse, Kick, Squawk,
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• Grippe
- (n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.
Synonyms:
Influenza,
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• Grope
- (v. i.) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel ones way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
- (v. t.) To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
- (v. i.) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
- (v. t.) To examine; to test; to sound.
Synonyms:
Fumble,
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• Grype
- (v. t.) To gripe.
- (n.) A vulture; the griffin.
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• Guess rope
- () A guess warp.
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• Guest rope
- () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
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• Guide rope
- () A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
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• Guimpe
- (n.) A kind of short chemisette, worn with a low-necked dress.
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• Guttersnipe
- (n.) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.
- (n.) A curbstone broker.
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• Gyroscope
- (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earths motion.
- (n.) A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
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• Haematoscope
- (n.) A haemoscope.
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• Haemoscope
- (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
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• Hagioscope
- (n.) An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.
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• Haloscope
- (n.) An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
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• Handygripe
- (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.
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• Headrope
- (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
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• Helioscope
- (n.) A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
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• Heliotrope
- (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
- (n.) See Bloodstone (a).
- (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the suns rays thrown from a mirror.
- (n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Synonyms:
Bloodstone,
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• Heliotype
- (n.) A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
Synonyms:
Hectograph,
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• Hellenotype
- (n.) See Ivorytype.
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• Hemiorthotype
- (a.) Same as Monoclinic.
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• Hemitrope
- (n.) That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
- (a.) Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.
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• Hipe
- () Alt. of Hype
- (v. t. & i.) To throw by means of a hipe.
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• Hippe
- (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.
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• Hipps
- (n.) See Hyp, n.
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• Hoggerpipe
- (n.) The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.
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• Homotype
- (n.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc.
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• Hope
- (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
- (v. i.) To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.
- (n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (v. t.) To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
- (n.) A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
- (n.) That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
- (v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
- (v. t.) To expect; to fear.
- (n.) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
Synonyms:
Desire, Promise, Trust,
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• Hornpipe
- (n.) An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
- (n.) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.
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• Horoscope
- (n.) A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places.
- (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.
- (n.) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a persons birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the persons life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.
- (n.) The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus.
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• Hyalotype
- (n.) A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
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• Hydroscope
- (n.) An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.
- (n.) A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.
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• Hydrotrope
- (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.
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• Hygroscope
- (n.) An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.
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• Hype
- () A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
Synonyms:
Plug,
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• Hypnoscope
- (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a person to hypnotic influences.
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• Interlope
- (v. i.) To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.
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• Inverness cape
- () A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.
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• Iridioscope
- (n.) A kind of ophthalmoscope.
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• Iriscope
- (n.) A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
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• Irpe
- (n.) A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.
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• Isabella grape
- () A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.
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• Ivorytype
- (n.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.
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• Jacksnipe
- (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
- (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
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• Jape
- (v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
- (v. t.) To mock; to trick.
Synonyms:
Gag, Jest, Joke, Laugh, Wheeze, Yak,
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• Jaspe
- (a.) Having the surface decorated with cloudings and streaks, somewhat as if imitating jasper.
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• Jupe
- (n.) Same as Jupon.
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• Kaleidoscope
- (n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
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• Kempe
- (a.) Rough; shaggy.
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• Kemps
- (n. pl.) The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).
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• Kinetoscope
- (n.) A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.
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