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Belted :: Belted (a.) Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl..

Broadcloth :: Broadcloth (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide..

Endogenous :: Endogenous (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk..

Discalced :: Discalced (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

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..

Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction..

Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed..

Distinction :: Distinction (n.) Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance.

Leave :: Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed..

Terrestrial :: Terrestrial (a.) Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court..

Nice :: Nice (superl.) Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy..

Practical :: Practical (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry..

Levee :: Levee (n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee..

Order :: Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order..

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name..

Jesus :: "Jesus (n.) The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation..

Distinguishingly :: Distinguishingly (adv.) With distinction; with some mark of preference.

Fungibles :: Fungibles (n. pl.) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel..

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