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Mode :: Mode (n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode..

Populares :: Populares (n. pl.) The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates..

Gonfanon :: Gonfanon (n.) A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

Dives :: Dives (n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling..

Pea :: Pea (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod..

Tabby :: Tabby (n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat..

Hornpipe :: Hornpipe (n.) An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn..

Hit. :: Hit. (adj.) having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie..

Second :: Second (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

Run :: Run (a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

Sciatica :: Sciatica (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic..

Ignis Fatuus :: Ignis fatuus () A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom..

Motherwort :: Motherwort (n.) A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail..

Allheal :: Allheal (n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants..

Redcap :: Redcap (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland..

Paspy :: Paspy (n.) A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure..

Popular :: Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease..

Socialism :: Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism..

Aristocracy :: Aristocracy (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect..

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