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1. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
2. accumulator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person....
3. announcer, n. View full entry 1611
...One who announces, tells news, or gives notice....
4. burster, n. View full entry 1611
...He who, or that which, bursts; spec. (Gunnery) a charge of gunpowder for bursting a shell, or the bag containing it. Hence burster-bag...
5. click, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A slight, sharp, hard, non-ringing sound of concussion, thinner than a clack, such as is made by the dropping of a latch, the cocking of a gun, etc. Also ...
6. compatibility, n. View full entry 1611
...The quality of being compatible; mutual tolerance, consistency, congruity....
7. entablature, n. View full entry 1611
...Archit. That part of an order which is above the column; including the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice....
8. extensible, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of a material object:...
9. ferrule, n. View full entry 1611
...A ring or cap of metal put round the end of a stick, tube, etc. to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing....
10. fistful, n. View full entry 1611
...As much as a fist will hold, a handful....
11. hardener, n. View full entry 1611
...One who hardens; spec. one whose work is to harden metals; one who case-hardens guns, etc....
12. induced, adj. View full entry 1611
...Brought on, caused, or produced, by attraction, persuasion, etc. (see esp. induce4b); induced current, an electric current excited by induction (sense 10). Also,...
13. jumper, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A man or animal that jumps or leaps....
14. ˈland-measure, n. View full entry 1611
...Measurement of land (obs.)....
15. lapful, n. and adj. View full entry 1611
...So much as will fill a person's lap....
16. listener, n. View full entry 1611
...One who listens; an attentive hearer....
17. mechanicalness, n. View full entry 1611
...The quality or condition of being mechanical....
18. mercurialize, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To behave in a mercurial manner. Also trans. with it. Obs.rare....
19. narrator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who narrates or gives an account of something....
20. pairing, n.2 View full entry 1611
...The action of pair (in various senses); an instance of this; an arrangement or match resulting from the organization of people or things into pairs....
