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1. cymaise, n. View full entry 1656
...= cyma, cymatium...
2. † electrine, adj. View full entry 1656
...Resembling or characteristic of amber, esp. in relation to its ability to develop static electricity (cf. electric1a)....
3. façade, n. View full entry 1656
...The face or front of a building towards a street or other open place, esp. the principal front. Also attrib. or as , of an architectural design...
4. ferrean, adj. View full entry 1656
...= ferreous2....
5. freeboard, n. View full entry 1670
...Law. Also in form freebord. The right claimed by the owner of a park or forest to a belt of land lying immediately outside its boundary; the land thus...
6. frontal, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to the forehead, or to the corresponding part in the lower animals. Frequent in anatomical applications, as frontal artery, frontal bone, frontal sinus,...
7. † gypˈsation, n. View full entry 1656
...The action or process of plastering with gypsum; pargetting....
8. lapicide, n. View full entry 1656
...One who cuts stones, or inscriptions on stone....
9. latomy, n. View full entry 1656
...A stone quarry; spec. of those at Syracuse....
10. papyriferous, adj. View full entry 1656
...Producing or yielding papyrus or paper. Also: like paper, papyraceous....
11. papyro-, comb. form View full entry 1656
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to paper or papyrus’....
12. pelagic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Of or relating to the open sea, as distinguished from the shallow water near the coast; dwelling on or near the surface of the open sea or ocean; oceanic. Now chiefly: (...
13. † plumbagine, n. View full entry 1656
...Lead added to gold or silver in a smelting furnace in order to reduce the melting point. Also: lead ore containing silver....
14. plumbean, adj. View full entry 1656
...Resembling (that of) lead; leaden....
15. pulsator, n. View full entry 1656
...A person who or thing which knocks or strikes. Now rare....
16. puteal, adj. View full entry 1656
...In early use: of or relating to a well or pit. In later use (Classical Archit.): of or relating to a puteal....
17. sciagraph, n. View full entry 1656
...A representation of the section of a building. Obs. So French sciagraphie. (Cf. sciagraphy2b.)...
18. † semenˈtation, n. View full entry ?a1656
...‘A bringing forth seed’ (Blount Glossogr.1656)....
19. septem-, comb. form View full entry 1656
...Latin septem seven, used in a few compounds, chiefly adjs. = septi- (which is more frequent):...
20. stellar, adj. View full entry 1656
...Pertaining to the stars or a star; of the nature of a star....
