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Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.

Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..

Bafta :: Bafta (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export..

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary..

Kyriological :: Kyriological (a.) Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic..

Eggplant :: Eggplant (n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple..

Facsimile :: Facsimile (n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness..

Mechlin :: Mechlin (n.) A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium..

"archetypally :: Archetypally (adv.) With reference to the archetype; originally. Parts archetypally distinct..

Merino :: Merino (n.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool..

Stercobilin :: -ster () A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster..

Marshal :: Marshal (n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom..

Polygenism :: Polygenism (n.) The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.

Transcription :: Transcription (n.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of son

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions..

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..

Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..

Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast..

Stylus :: Stylus (n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.

Ptomaine :: Ptomaine (n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines..

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