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Separator :: Separator (n.) An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue..

Haemadynamometer :: Haemadynamometer () Same as Hemadynamometer.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber..

Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

Saponify :: Saponify (v. t.) To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate..

Blancher :: Blancher (n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose..

Hemicycle :: Hemicycle (n.) A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room..

Gasify :: Gasify (v. t.) To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes..

Carburize :: Carburize (v. t.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.

Bond :: Bond (n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence..

Hemitone :: Hemitone (n.) See Semitone.

Hemianaesthesia :: Hemianaesthesia (n.) Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.

Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..

Press :: Press (n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse..

Table :: Table (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Philhellenist :: Philhellenist (n.) A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene..

Eucalyptus :: Eucalyptus (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia..

Bohemia :: Bohemia (n.) A country of central Europe.

Tone :: Tone (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment..

Mechanics :: Mechanics (n.) That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies..

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