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Mitrailleuse :: Mitrailleuse (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly..

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Host :: Host (n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.

Sum :: Sum (n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12..

Stichometry :: Stichometry (n.) Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

Uneven :: Uneven (a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers..

An :: An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as twice an hour, once an age, a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every..

Homogeneous :: Homogeneous (a.) Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial..

Cluster :: Cluster (n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

Poll :: Poll (n.) A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.

Mission :: Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

Train :: Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.

M :: M (n.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number..

Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

Combing :: Combing (n.) The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool..

Helminthes :: Helminthes (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha..

Haematometer :: Haematometer (n.) An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Manifold :: Manifold (a.) Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.

Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..

On :: On (prep.) In the service of; connected with; of the number of; as, he is on a newspaper; on a committee..

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