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Gynaecophore :: Gynaecophore (n.) A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Haematozoa..

Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat..

Prophetical :: Prophetical (a.) Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold..

Preventive :: Preventive (a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease..

Occasionalism :: Occasionalism (n.) The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body..

Subcelestial :: Subcaudal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones..

Ventriloquous :: Ventriloquous (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.

Perchance :: Perchance (adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out..

Impeach :: Impeach (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

Prop :: Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state..

Hogchain :: Hogchain (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging..

Gastromyth :: Gastromyth (n.) One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

Septic :: Septic (n.) A quantic of the seventh degree.

Mousing :: Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out..

Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..

Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To give vent to; to dissipate.

Injector :: Injector (n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor..

Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine..

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