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Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..

Anomaly :: Anomaly (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform..

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

Catechism :: Catechism (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.

Ormolu :: Ormolu (n.) A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold..

Theme :: Theme (n.) That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument.

-arch :: -arch (a.) A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler)..

Divarication :: Divarication (n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.

Wet :: Wet (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed..

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape..

Economical :: Economical (a.) Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.

Pyroelectricity :: Pyroelectricity (n.) Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Pulley :: Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

Set :: Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece..

Coarsely :: Coarsely (adv.) In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

Bronzing :: Bronzing (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes..

Supernaculum :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers..

Pettifogging :: Pettifogging (a.) Paltry; quibbling; mean.

Acierage :: Acierage (n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

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