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Overture :: Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

Burette :: Burette (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock..

Aperture :: Aperture (n.) The act of opening.

Clepsydra :: Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix..

Peristome :: Peristome (n.) The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell..

Turritella :: Turritella (n.) Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum..

Thurl :: Thurl (n.) A hole; an aperture.

Ascidioidea :: Ascidioidea (n. pl.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix..

Fatiscence :: Fatiscence (n.) A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures..

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

Trompil :: Trompil (n.) An aperture in a tromp.

Holostomatous :: Holostomatous (a.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

Embrasure :: Embrasure (n.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate..

Oscule :: Oscule (n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

Barker''s Mill :: Barker's mill () A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis..

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Apertness :: Apertness (n.) Openness; frankness.

Pseudostoma :: Pseudostoma (n.) A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them..

Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Apertion :: Apertion (n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

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