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Back :: Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Hylicist :: Hylicist (n.) A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

Ladanum :: Ladanum (n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation..

Cistercian :: Cistercian (n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor..

Hypocist :: Hypocist (n.) An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub..

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids..

Physicist :: Physicist (n.) One versed in physics.

Solecistically :: Solecistically (adv.) In a solecistic manner.

Decistere :: Decistere (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere..

Ethicist :: Ethicist (n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics..

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.

Solecistical :: Solecistical (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect..

Polemicist :: Polemicist (n.) A polemic.

Bernardine :: Bernardine (n.) A Cistercian monk.

Solecistic :: Solecistic (a.) Solecistical.

Compluvium :: Compluvium (n.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern..

Solon :: Solon (n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically..

Biblicist :: Biblicist (n.) One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Bernardine :: Bernardine (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks..

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