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Date :: Date (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle..

Legislative :: Legislative (a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style..

Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..

Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.

Positive :: Positive (a.) Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation..

Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Tending to excess of formative action.

Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Fluvialist :: Fluvialist (n.) One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.

Addition :: Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Impulse :: Impulse (n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body..

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams..

Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent..

Agitation :: Agitation (n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation..

Spattling-poppy :: Spattling-poppy (n.) A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

Acetylene :: Acetylene (n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant..

Gravamen :: Gravamen (a.) The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier..

Preaction :: Preaction (n.) Previous action.

Part :: Part (n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent..

Haemochromogen :: Haemochromogen (n.) A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen..

Best :: Best (n.) Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability..

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