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Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..

Materially :: Materially (adv.) In its essence; substantially.

Tang :: Tang (n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

Saponifiable :: Saponifiable (a.) Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance..

Eburnification :: Eburnification (n.) The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

Drumhead :: Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

Resistance :: Resistance (n.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm..

Exorbitantly :: Exorbitantly (adv.) In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously..

Ingrain :: Ingrain (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance..

Normal :: Normal (a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical..

Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment..

Knock :: Knock (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap..

Advent :: Advent (n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.

Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom..

Resistant :: Resistant (n.) One who, or that which, resists..

Slime :: Slime (n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive..

Subsidies :: Subsidize (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line..

Instant :: Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

Bathybius :: Bathybius (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin..

Acquittance :: Acquittance (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

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