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Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Pension :: Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc..

Suspensive :: Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation..

Pause :: Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Suspense :: Suspensation (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension..

Proneness :: Proneness (n.) Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification..

Apnoea :: Apnoea (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Impulse :: Impulse (n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will..

Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford..

Catalepsis :: Catalepsis (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues..

Superannuate :: Superannuate (v. t.) To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

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