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Seagoing :: Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels..

Affinity :: Affinity (n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between..

Ontogeny :: Ontogeny (n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny..

Energetics :: Energetics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena..

Zoochemistry :: Zoochemistry (n.) Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry..

Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..

Dry Goods :: Dry goods () A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries..

Contradistinctive :: Contradistinctive (a.) having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.

Untitled :: Untitled (a.) Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction..

Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank..

Aptote :: Aptote (n.) A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion..

Phase :: Phase (n.) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side..

Distinguishing :: Distinguishing (a.) Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic..

Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..

Apart :: Apart (adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart..

Acute :: Acute (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning..

Horse :: Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male..

Brachycephalous :: Brachycephalous (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Ethnical :: Ethnical (a.) Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

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