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Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.

For :: For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

Emprosthotonos :: Emprosthotonos (n.) A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.

Corrosion :: Corrosion (n.) The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion..

Boiling :: Boiling (n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

Entry :: Entry (n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item..

Actionary :: Actionary (n.) Alt. of Actionis.

Suit :: Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word..

War :: War (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility..

Ethylene :: Ethylene (n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen..

Objection :: Objection (n.) The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection..

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.

Heroic :: Heroic (a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises..

Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages..

Amongst :: Amongst (prep.) Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Proceeding :: Proceeding (n.) The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding..

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