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08/06/2025

#73747

DUCTLESS

Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

#4987

SANDPAPER

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used forsmoothing and polishing.

#74300

BANDIT

An outlaw; a brigand.No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

#63513

CALISAYA BARK

A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the CinchonaCalisaya, and other closely related species.

#40061

POLYPOMEDUSAE

Same as Hydrozoa.

#54096

VITRIFICATION

Same as Vitrifaction. Sir T. Browne. Ure.

#58566

MELOE

A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra;the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead ofcantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.

#39877

DEVULGARIZE

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow.Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E.A. Abbott.

#69663

CHOLERA

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinaltract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonlycalled Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidlyfatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in themore filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specificpoison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice-water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, andlividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed bydeath, or by a stage of reaction of fever.-- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus.-- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, causedby hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in largecities.-- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging,with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or bygastrointestinal disturbance.-- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken.-- Hog cholera. See under Hog.-- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiaticcholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becomingepidemic.

#1871

DISCONTINUITY

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts."Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.

#53381

TYMPANOHYAL

Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch.-- n.

#2954

CHORDAL

Of or pertaining to a chord.