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Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.

Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..

Picture :: Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Strained :: Strained (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends..

Tensile :: Tensile (a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.

Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel..

Panic :: Panic (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

Volumenometer :: Volumenometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air..

Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine..

Shell :: Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering..

Extensure :: Extensure (n.) Extension.

Tensility :: Tensility (n.) The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles..

Tract :: Tract (v.) Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech..

Psychrometer :: Psychrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer..

Cointension :: Cointension (n.) The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension..

Music :: Music (n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear..

Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

Rosaniline :: Rosaniline (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper..

Canter :: Canter (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

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