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Gape :: Gape (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

Distinguish :: Distinguish (v. i.) To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle..

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Brassica :: Brassica (n.) A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc..

Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square..

Ledgment :: Ledgment (n.) The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained..

Osmose :: Osmose (n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion..

Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

Disinterest :: Disinterest (n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.

Calico :: Calico (a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color..

Shilling :: Shilling (n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized..

Heterology :: Heterology (n.) The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology..

Tridimensional :: Tridimensional (a.) Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

Harmonist :: Harmonist (n.) One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists..

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs..

Surcrew :: Surcoat (n.) A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.

Distinction :: Distinction (n.) The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination..

Rope :: Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage..

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