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Go :: Go (v. i.) To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.

Force :: Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon..

Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.

Alembic :: Alembic (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still..

Dualin :: Dualin (n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion..

Barb :: Barb (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary..

Cowcatxjer :: Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot..

Contracture :: Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles..

Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.

Et Caetera :: Et caetera () Others of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c).

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Sulphinic :: Sulphine (n.) Any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. In general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium..

Microphone :: Microphone (n.) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations..

Vap :: Vap (n.) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine..

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..

Partially :: Partially (adv.) In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially..

Two-handed :: Two-handed (a.) Using either hand equally well; ambidextrous.

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