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09/05/2024

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CYMOGENE

A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure fromthe first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used forproducing low temperatures.

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JACOB

A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews),who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12);-- also called Israel.And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and nowI am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10.Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28.Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium(P. coeruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usually blue.Gray. (b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft.R. H. Dana, Jr. (c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in adefective spar.-- Jacob's membrane. See Retina.-- Jacob's staff. (a) A name given to many forms of staff or weapon,especially in the Middle Ages; a pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Spenser. (b)(Surveying) See under Staff.

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XYLOCARPOUS

Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.

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FORSTALL

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

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SCURVILY

In a scurvy manner.

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BOURDER

A jester. [Obs.]

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PARTY-COATED

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.

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COLATURE

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]

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LIMACINA

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic andAntarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

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PSEUDOFILARIA

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission ofthe embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

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BANG

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows;as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on thepiano.

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DISULPHIDE

A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur ineach molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.