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Abomasum :: Abomasum (n.) Alt. of Abomasu.

Abomasus :: Abomasus (n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia..

Antonomasia :: Antonomasia (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero..

Antonomastic :: Antonomastic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia..

Antonomasy :: Antonomasy (n.) Antonomasia.

Autonomasy :: Autonomasy (n.) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, He has gone to town, for, He has gone to London..

Bergomask :: Bergomask (n.) A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness..

Burgomaster :: Burgomaster (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster..

Burgomaster :: Burgomaster (n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions..

Chromascope :: Chromascope (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

Diplomas :: Diplomas (pl. ) of Diplom.

Omasum :: Omasum (n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant..

Onomastic :: Onomastic (a.) Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting.

Onomasticon :: Onomasticon (n.) A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180..

Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..

Paronomastic :: Paronomastic (a.) Alt. of Paronomastica.

Paronomastical :: Paronomastical (a.) Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

Paronomasy :: Paronomasy (n.) Paronomasia.

Petromastoid :: Petromastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic..

Pleurotomas :: Pleurotomas (pl. ) of Pleurotom.

Sarcomas :: sarcomas (pl. ) of Sarcom.

Sternomastoid :: Sternohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Stylomastoid :: Styloid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.