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1. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
2. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
3. mar-, comb. form View full entry 1575
...Prefixed to nouns, to form nouns with the sense ‘a person who mars’, in many nonce-words (chiefly names) occurring in the Marprelate tracts or in later works referring to them. Now ...
4. multi-, comb. form View full entry 1647
...Forming parasynthetic adjectives, with the sense ‘more than one, several, many’. From the adjectives are formed adverbs (e.g. multiserially) and nouns (e.g. multicellularity). Some formations of this kind...
5. musculo-, comb. form View full entry 1823
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, relating to, composed of, or supplying muscle(s) and ——’ or ‘both muscular and ——’....
6. pick-, comb. form View full entry c1400
...Forming nouns and adjectives, chiefly where the second element would be the object of the verb to pick....
