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Trip :: Trip (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip..

Chasseur :: Chasseur (n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements..

Air :: Air (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air..

Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Escort :: Escort (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea..

Reaction :: Reaction (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Pace :: Pace (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..

Chorea :: Chorea (n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

Inauguration :: Inauguration (n.) The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc..

Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..

Intracellular :: Intracellular (a.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells..

Stern-wheel :: Sternway (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost..

Time :: Time (v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement..

Elevation :: Elevation (n.) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction..

Phrenograph :: Phrenograph (n.) An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration..

Kinetogenesis :: Kinetogenesis (n.) An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

Scurry :: Scurry (n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.

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