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Ecraseur :: Ecraseur (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows..

Encroacher :: Encroacher (n.) One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own..

Drain :: Drain (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country..

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land..

Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells..

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..

Insensible :: Insensible (a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion..

Regimen :: Regimen (n.) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operatio.

Erosive :: Erosive (a.) That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..

Curve :: Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right..

Conine :: Conine (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2..

Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

Panicle :: Panicle (n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end..

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

Taper :: Taper (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire..

Edgingly :: Edgingly (adv.) Gradually; gingerly.

Decrease :: Decrease (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December..

Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

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