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Tincture :: Tincture (v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

Illinition :: Illinition (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

Net :: Net (a.) Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc..

Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar..

Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air..

Supervention :: Supervenient (a.) Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.

Foul :: Foul (superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water..

Plasmid :: Plasmid (n.) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produ

Erodent :: Erodent (n.) A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

Irrelavant :: Irrelavant (a.) Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case..

Plain :: Plain (superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

Superadvenient :: Superaddition (n.) The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously..

Regulize :: Regulize (v. t.) To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony..

Self-kindled :: Self-kindled (a.) Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power..

Clean :: Clean (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse..

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air..

Scum :: Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle..

Absoluteness :: Absoluteness (n.) The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Clog :: Clog (v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter..

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