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Basin :: Basin (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.

Contained :: Contained (imp. & p. p.) of Contai.

Nucleolus :: Nucleolus (n.) A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan.

Butyrometer :: Butyrometer (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.

Anker :: Anker (n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons..

Division :: Division (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed..

Ascospore :: Ascospore (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus..

Alluvial :: Alluvial (a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits..

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed..

Quotient :: Quotient (n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center..

Dreg :: Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society..

Frail :: Frail (n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail..

Octahedron :: Octahedron (n.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

Thoracentesis :: Thoracentesis (n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility..

Jar :: "Jar (n.) The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves..

Rhodophane :: Rhodophane (n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

Evangelical :: Evangelical (a.) Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history..

Fovilla :: Fovilla (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

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