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1. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
2. aculeate, adj. and n. View full entry 1640
...Pointed, incisive; stinging. Chiefly fig....
3. adhesiveness, n. View full entry 1663
...The quality of being adhesive (lit. and fig.)....
4. affusion, n. View full entry 1615
...Anat. and Physiol....
5. aggeneration, n. View full entry 1627
...The action or process of generating or producing in addition; (also) growth or regeneration by grafting; the result of this....
6. allantoid, n. and adj. View full entry 1633
...Chiefly Embryol. = allantois Now disused....
7. alpestral, adj. and n. View full entry 1697
...= Alpine1a. Obs....
8. astro-, comb. form View full entry 1652
...Forming terms relating to stars, other celestial objects, or outer space....
9. camerated, adj. View full entry 1658
...Archit. Having the form of a vault; arched. Now rare....
10. chlorosis, n. View full entry 1660
...Med. A disorder believed to occur almost exclusively in young, virginal women soon after puberty, characterized by a greenish pallor of the skin, cessation or irregularity of menstruation, and weakness, often...
11. colourize | colorize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To impart a colour to, to imbue with colour. Also fig....
12. electric, adj. and n. View full entry a1626
...Of a (non-conducting) substance or object: possessing the property (first observed in amber) of developing static electricity when rubbed. Now hist....
13. gas, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1662
...J. B. van Helmont's name for: water supposedly charged with a vital principle and thought to be contained in all bodies and released upon combustion in the form of extremely rarefied water...
14. green water, n. View full entry 1617
...Med. A green medicinal liquid; spec. a preparation containing verdigris, used esp. in the treatment of venereal and other ulcers. Obs....
15. histrionic, adj. and n. View full entry 1627
...Theatrical or dramatic in character or style; esp. excessively theatrical, melodramatic, stagy. Also: characterized by pretence or deceit....
16. Homerite, n. View full entry 1613
...Chiefly in pl. A member of an ancient people who inhabited the south-western part of the Arabian peninsula and ruled much of southern Arabia until the 6th cent....
17. hybrid, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...The offspring of two animals or plants of different species, or (less strictly) varieties; a half-breed, cross-breed, or mongrel....
18. idio-, comb. form View full entry a1626
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the senses ‘own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct’....
19. metaplastic, adj. View full entry 1640
...That changes something into a new form. Obs.rare....
20. mill-mountain, n. View full entry 1633
...A wild flax of chalk downs formerly used as a purge, prob. fairy flax, Linum catharticum. Also mill-mountain flax....