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Spoiled :: Spoffish (a.) Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

Attractive :: Attractive (a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects..

Actively :: Actively (adv.) In an active signification; as, a word used actively..

Inactose :: Inactose (n.) A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive..

Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to detractor draw.

Detractiveness :: Detractiveness (n.) The quality of being detractive.

Color :: Color (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices..

Active :: Active (a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

Activity :: Activity (n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities..

In- :: In- () An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial..

Aerobies :: Aerobies (n. pl.) Microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

Enactive :: Enactive (a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.

Triungulus :: Triungulus (n.) The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil..

Healall :: Healall (n.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea..

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.

Attractive :: Attractive (a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..

Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter..

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