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Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce..

Zoilism :: Zoilism (n.) Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.

Equipondious :: Equipondious (a.) Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

Lance :: Lance (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

Scale :: Scale (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively..

Vigilancy :: Vigilancy (n.) Vigilance.

Squamous :: Squamous () Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale..

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds..

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..

Pencel :: Pencel (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel..

Equibalance :: Equibalance (v. t.) To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

Picture :: Picture (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

Homology :: Homology (n.) The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said

Seem :: Seem (a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

Libratory :: Libratory (a.) Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level..

Dissemblance :: Dissemblance (n.) Want of resemblance; dissimilitude.

Auncel :: Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England..

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