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Combust :: Combust (a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet..

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra..

Nonagesimal :: Nonagesimal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

Burganet :: Burganet (n.) See Burgonet.

Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..

Bascinet :: Bascinet (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor..

Planet-struck :: Planet-struck (a.) Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.

Lambskinnet :: Lambskinnet (n.) See Lansquenet.

Snet :: Snet (n.) The fat of a deer.

Trawlwarp :: Trawlwarp (n.) A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet..

Galvanometer :: Galvanometer (n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle..

Statesmen :: States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers..

Minionette :: Minionette (n.) A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc..

Valenciennes Lace :: Valenciennes lace () A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net..

Osteoblast :: Osteoblast (n.) One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast..

Clue :: Clue (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.

Cornopean :: Cornopean (n.) An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.

Diabase :: Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone..

Urticate :: Urticate (v. t. & i.) To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy..

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