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Usage :: Usage (n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification..

#NAME? :: -ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer..

Gas :: Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state..

Value :: Value (n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument.

Prefix :: Prefix (n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure..

Lexicology :: Lexicology (n.) The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.

Voice :: Voice (n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.

General :: General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression..

Unmeaning :: Unmeaning (a.) Having no meaning or signification; as, unmeaning words..

Comprehensibly :: Comprehensibly (adv.) With great extent of signification; comprehensively.

Metalepsis :: Metalepsis (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word..

Ambiguous :: Ambiguous (a.) Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression..

Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence..

Aqua :: Aqua (n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed..

Ex- :: Ex- () A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of

Consignification :: Consignification (n.) Joint signification.

Equivoke :: Equivoke (n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

Letter :: Letter (n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.

Equipollency :: Equipollency (n.) Equality of power, force, signification, or application..

Force :: Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term..

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