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Sagacious :: Sagacious (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..

Thin :: Thin (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Present :: Present (a.) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, Know all men by these presents, that is, by the writing itself, per has literas praesentes; -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular..

Gratification :: Gratification (n.) The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart..

Sense :: Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface..

Homology :: Homology (n.) The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said

Auspicate :: Auspicate (v. t.) To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business..

Tact :: Tact (n.) The sense of touch; feeling.

Non- :: Non- () A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit..

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..

Muscales :: Muscales (n. pl.) An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna..

Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, he is well and lives..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.].

Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..

Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it..

Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..

Conferva :: Conferva (n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense..

Livelong :: Livelong (a.) Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness..

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