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Isocephalism :: Isocephalism (n.) A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia..

Relievable :: Relievable (a.) Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Redress :: Redress (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

Charity :: Charity (n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.

Release :: Release (n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden..

Stereoplasm :: Stereomonoscope (n.) An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once..

Need :: Need (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

Parturifacient :: Parturifacient (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing..

Patera :: Patera (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like..

Grace :: Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

Panstereorama :: Panstereorama (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like..

Zincography :: Zincography (n.) The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid..

Reliefless :: Reliefless (a.) Destitute of relief; also, remediless..

Toreutic :: Toreutic (a.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal..

Resort :: Resort (v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..

Foreground :: Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6..

Pseudoscopic :: Pseudoscopic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image..

Libel :: Libel (n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks..

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