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Thermetograph :: Thermetograph (n.) A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods..

Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.

Guiser :: Guiser (n.) A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer.

Pole :: Pole (n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle..

Upset :: Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold..

Maximum :: Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat..

Letterwood :: Letterwood (n.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks..

Mummy :: Mummy (n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

Mummery :: Mummery (n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

Mumbo Jumbo :: Mumbo Jumbo () An object of superstitious homage and fear.

Hum :: Hum (v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune..

Water Thermometer :: Water thermometer () A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39? Fahr., or 4? Centigrade; and from that point down to 32? Fahr., or 0? Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands..

Feverfew :: Feverfew (n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities..

Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden..

Drumble :: Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.

Hartwort :: Hartwort (n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

Sintoc :: Sintoc (n.) A kind of spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum..

Mummiform :: Mummiform (a.) Having some resemblance to a mummy; -- in zoology, said of the pupae of certain insects..

Mumbling :: Mumbling (a.) Low; indistinct; inarticulate.

Xylobalsamum :: Xylobalsamum (n.) The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense).

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