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Pteranodontia :: Pteranodontia (n. pl.) A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon..

Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

Anaclastics :: Anaclastics (n.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.

Herd :: Herd (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

Minishment :: Minishment (n.) The act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished; diminution..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..

Calefaction :: Calefaction (n.) The state of being heated.

Protract :: Protract (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

Strayer :: Stray (n.) The act of wandering or going astray.

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

Actinolitic :: Actinolitic (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite..

Chrismation :: Chrismation (n.) The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil..

Galactophagist :: Galactophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk..

Nicotine :: Nicotine (n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous..

Marcid :: Marcid (a.) Characterized by emaciation, as a fever..

Tonometer :: Tonometer (n.) An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.

Approach :: Approach (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman..

Allocution :: Allocution (n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words..

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