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Arrange :: Arrange (v. t.) To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..

Grainer :: Grainer (n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.

Marlitic :: Marlitic (a.) Partaking of the qualites of marlite.

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Larceny :: Larceny (n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

Sip :: Sip (n.) The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

Career :: Career (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier..

Canon :: Canon (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation..

Riotous :: Riotous (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.

Prender :: Prender (n.) The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.

Herpetic :: Herpetic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions..

Apostematous :: Apostematous (a.) Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme..

Purulent :: Purulent (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation..

Gyrate :: Gyrate (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

Detraction :: Detraction (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny..

Marly :: Marly (superl.) Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

Osmose :: Osmose (n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion..

Entry :: Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them..

Reprisal :: Reprisal (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

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