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Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction..

Twilight :: Twilight (n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18? below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth..

Uprising :: Uprising (n.) An insurrection; a popular revolt.

Possessionary :: Possessionary (a.) Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

Canicular :: Canicular (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star..

Quadrennial :: Quadrennial (a.) Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period..

Hematotherma :: Hematotherma (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya..

Right-handed :: Right-handed (a.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.

Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..

Vertebrata :: Vertebrata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Lep

Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts..

Relative :: Relative (a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute..

Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment..

Resurgent :: Resurgent (a.) Rising again, as from the dead..

Exocardial :: Exocardial (a.) Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac..

Rise :: Rise (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen..

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

Emersed :: Emersed (a.) Standing out of, or rising above, water..

Emergent :: Emergent (a.) Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.

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