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Instant :: Instant (a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment..

Anisomeric :: Anisomeric (a.) Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

Rubric :: Rubric (n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions..

Peptone :: Peptone (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

Mesolabe :: Mesolabe (n.) An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube..

Inductor :: Inductor (n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current..

Turn :: Turn (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander..

Dose :: Dose (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.

Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal..

Rate :: Rate (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

Share :: Share (v. i.) To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others..

Arthropleura :: Arthropleura (n.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

Tergite :: Tergite (n.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

Geodesy :: Geodesy (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast..

Disproportionally :: Disproportionally (adv.) In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally..

Manna Croup :: Manna croup () The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats..

Far :: Far (adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon..

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