| abaciscus | A square section containing part or all of the pattern of a mosaic pavement; (also) a single mosaic tile, a tessera. Now rare. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| abraum | = red ochre n. Cf. ruddle n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| absolutism | Theol. The doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty, esp. that salvation is preordained absolutely; the doctrine of predestination. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| acanthine | Decorated with representations of acanthus leaves; resembling the leaves or branches of the acanthus. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| acanthopterygious | Ray-finned; = acanthopterygian adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| acaulous | = acaulescent adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| acroteriasm | Amputation of an extremity of the body. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| adapter | A device or part for connecting pieces of equipment which would otherwise be incompatible.… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| adephagia | Voracious or insatiable appetite (for food or certain foods). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| adlegation | In the Holy Roman Empire: the action of nominating delegates or ambassadors… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| admortization | The transfer of property to a corporation in mortmain; an instance of this; = amortization n. 1. Obs. hist. rare. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Adonist | A person who maintains that the vowel points given to the Tetragrammaton YHWH in… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aeronautica | In titles of works: aerial navigation; = aeronautics n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aerostatica | = aerostatics n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aesymnetic | In ancient Greece: a limited elective monarchy. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| affuage | The right to cut firewood in a forest (forest n. 2) for domestic use. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Agnoetism | The (heretical) doctrine of the Agnoetes that Christ shared limited knowledge with humans… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| agrom | Apparently: a condition in which the tongue becomes rough and cracked (not identified). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| à la modality | The quality of being à la mode; fashionableness, modishness. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| alamodic | In accordance with the prevailing taste; fashionable. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| algebraism | Algebra; an algebraic operation or expression. In later use freq. fig.: excessive… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| alkahestic | Of the nature of the alkahest; all-dissolving. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ambering | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ambrosin | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| amiculum | (See quot.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| amorpha | A genus of N. American deciduous shrubs, with long spiked clusters of purple flowers. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ampelography | Originally: the scientific description of the grape Vitis vinifera. In later… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anadromous | Zool. Of fishes: Ascending rivers to spawn. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anathematizing | The pronouncing of an anathema or curse. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anniversal | = anniversary adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| annomination | Paronomasia. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| annunciator | various techn. uses (see quots.). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| antalgic | A medicine or application having this tendency; ‘that which softens pain, anodyne’ (Johnson). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anteposition | in Bot. (see quot.). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropomorphism | Ascription of a human form and attributes to the Deity. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| anticausotic | Of use against a burning fever. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| antimonarchomachist | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| antique | To bind (books) after an antique manner. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| apanthropy | (See quot.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aparithmesis | ‘A figure in rhetorick; enumeration.’ Todd. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aphilanthropy | Med. A morbid state of melancholy in which solitude is preferred to society; anthropophobia. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| aphoristic | Of or pertaining to an aphorist; of the nature of an aphorism. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| apopemptic | Pertaining to dismissal; valedictory. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| apotelesmatical | = apotelesmatic adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| apperception | The mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent; self-consciousness. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| appoggiatura | A grace-note or passing tone prefixed as a support to an essential note of a melody. Also transf. A prop, a point of support. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| appointé | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| arcanna | A kind of red chalk used by carpenters for marking timber. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| archivist | A keeper of archives. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| arnica | A genus of Composite plants, of which the species A. montana or Mountain Tobacco, a… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| arrestographer | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| artigrapher | The writer of a classical treatise on rhetoric or grammar (an Ars Rhetorica or Ars Grammatica). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| artistic | Of, relating to, befitting, or characteristic of an artist (esp. in branch III.). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ascoliasm | ‘A kind of Play, call'd, Fox to thy Hole, in which Boys hopping on one Leg, beat one… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| asiarch | The director of religious rites and public games in Asia Minor under the Romans. (Cf. Acts xix. 31.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| assident | Constantly attendant; usually accompanying though not inseparable from (a disease). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Averroist | One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers who appeared in Italy some time before… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| axolotl | A batrachian reptile (Siredon pisciforme, family Proteidæ) found in Mexican lakes… | 1786 | Go To Quotation |
| azalea | A genus of shrubby plants (family Ericaceæ), natives of the northern hemisphere, growing… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| azedarac | A lofty tree (Melia azedarach), with bipinnate leaves and large bunches of… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| badiaga | A preparation of dried and powdered freshwater sponges of various species, formerly… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| badigeon | A preparation of powdered freestone, sawdust, or the like combined with a binding medium… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bahar | A measure of weight used in parts of India and China, varying in value in different places from 223 to 625 lbs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bailage | A duty upon delivery of goods. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ballon | A small bale or package. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| banal | Of or belonging to compulsory feudal service. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| banquet | See quot. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| barbet | A name given by Reaumur and others to a worm covered with tufts of white filaments, which feeds on aphides. Obs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Bardesanist | A member of the heretical sect founded in the 2nd century by Bardesanes, of Edessa… | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| Bartsia | A genus of Scrophulariaceæ. B. Odontites is a wayside weed in Britain, with dull purple flowers and purplish stem. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| begonia | A genus of succulent under-shrubs and herbaceous plants, mostly of tropical… | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| bibliomancy | Divination by books, or by verses of the Bible. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bigeminate | Bot. Of a leaf: having a petiole that branches dichotomously, esp. with a single pair… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bollito | (See quot.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bombus | Med. A humming or buzzing noise in the intestines, ears, etc. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| brennage | A payment in, or instead of, bran, made by tenants to feed their lord's hounds. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bridoon | ‘The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider’. Stocqueler. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| bull-fight | A sport practised in Spain, in which a bull is first attacked by horsemen called toreadores… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| burg | Occasionally applied by historians to a fortress (borough n. 1) or a walled town (borough n.… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| burgau | ‘The name of several univalve nacreous shells’ (Littré). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| burgaudine | Mother-of-pearl made from the burgau shell. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| butter-nut | A large oily nut, the fruit of the Juglans cinerea or White Walnut-tree of N. America. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cabling | The filling up of the lower part of the flutes of a column with cylindrical mouldings. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cagastric | Used, after Paracelsus, to describe some supposed class of diseases; explained by some as… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cagui | A name of two Brazilian monkeys of the genus Hapale. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calaba | A tropical evergreen tree (Calophyllum calaba) growing in Brazil and the West Indies… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calamiferous | Producing culms, culmiferous (obs.). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calamite | ‘A name given by some to the osteocolla..others have called some of the fossile coralloides by this name.’ Obs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calangay | A kind of white parrot, a native of the Philippine islands. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calathus | An ancient basket (in sculpture, etc.). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| caldarium | A (Roman) hot bath or bath-room. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calligrapher | spec. One who professes the art of elegant penmanship; a professional transcriber of manuscripts. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| calyptra | ‘the interior membranaceous and often hairy covering of the ovarium’ (de Candolle and Sprengel Philos. Plants 61). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| camellia | A genus of evergreen shrubs belonging to the tea family (Ternströmiaceæ), remarkable for… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| camera lucida | An instrument or technique for projecting an image of an external object on to a surface in… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| canderros | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| candleberry | properly candleberry-myrtle n. (a) A shrub (Myrica cerifera) common in North America… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| candle-lighter | One who lights candles; spec. an acolyte. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cardamine | A genus of cruciferous plants, including the common Lady-smock or Cuckoo-flower (C. pratensis); Meadow-cress. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cardioid | A curve somewhat resembling a heart in shape. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cassioberry | The fruit of Viburnum lævigatum, the cassioberry-bush. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| catabasion | A place for relics under the altar of a Greek church. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| catechesis | Oral instruction given to catechumens; catechizing. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ceceril | The letter C with a cedilla (ç). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| centesimate | To select every hundredth person for punishment. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cevadilla | The seeds of Asagræa officinalis, a Mexican plant of family Melanthaceæ. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| chama | A genus of bivalve molluscs found in warm and tropical seas. The shell of C. gigas is the largest known. Comb. chama-shaped. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| chapelet | (See quot.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| chara | Name of a genus of aquatic acrogenous plants, type of the family Characeæ, having… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| charbon | A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| chevaler | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ciliated | = ciliate adj. 1. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cirro- | pinnate, with a tendril. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| clothes-moth | A small moth, infesting houses, the larva of which is very destructive to… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| coda | Music. A passage of more or less independent character introduced after the completion… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Collucianist | A name given to certain Arians or Semi-arians, after Lucian of Antioch (martyred a.d. 312). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| coreopsis | An American genus of Compositæ, several species of which are cultivated for their… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Cotesian | Pertaining to Roger Cotes or his mathematical discoveries. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cotoneaster | A genus of small trees or trailing shrubs, family Rosaceæ, inhabiting northern Europe… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| cotton plant | A plant that yields cotton; a plant of the genus Gossypium or of an allied genus. | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| coucher | The workman who lays the sheet of pulp on the felt to be pressed (in making hand-made paper). | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| courbaril | The West Indian Locust-tree, Hymenæa courbaril (family Leguminosæ), a common tree of… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| decadal | Of or relating to the number ten; belonging to a decade or period of ten years. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| defossion | (See quot.: but the etymological meaning of the word is simply ‘burying, interment’.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| demi-cross | An instrument for taking altitudes: see quot. 1753. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| dentated | = dentate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| diachalasis | (See quots.) Obs. | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| Diandria | The second class in the sexual system of Linnæus, comprising all plants having two stamens. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| diaschisma | In modern music, an interval equal to the difference of the common comma (80:81)… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Didynamia | a plant of this class. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| diiamb | A metrical foot consisting of two iambs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Dillenia | A genus of plants, typical of the family Dilleniaceæ, natives of India and the… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Diœcia | The twenty-second class in the Sexual System of Linnæus, comprising plants which… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| distichous | Disposed in two opposite rows; having parts so disposed, two-ranked; formerly… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| docimastical | = docimastic adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Dodecandria | The eleventh class in the sexual system of Linnæus, comprising plants having from twelve to nineteen stamens not cohering. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| dodecasyllable | ‘A word of twelve syllables’ (Worcester, 1846). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| dog's tail | More fully dog's-tail grass. A grass of the genus Cynosurus; esp. C. cristatus… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| dolabriform | Axe-shaped, cleaver-shaped; in Bot. applied to fleshy leaves having one side thick… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Dolichos | A genus of leguminous plants allied to the Haricot, widely distributed through Asia, Africa, and America. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| drock | A part of a plow (see quot. 1753). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| drupe | A stone-fruit; a fleshy or pulpy fruit enclosing a stone or nut having a kernel, as the olive, plum, and cherry. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| duplicato- | comb. form of Latin duplicātus doubled, prefixed to adjs. in the sense ‘doubly’; esp. in Bot.… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ebrillade | Manège. A check of the bridle which the horseman gives to the horse, by a jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ebullioscope | (See quot.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| ecbole | Rhetoric. A digression, in which a person is introduced speaking his own words. (Webster.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ecbolic | A drug that possesses this property. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Echinodermata | With pl. concord (in form echinodermata). Sea urchins; the group of marine invertebrates that comprises these. Obs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| eczema | ‘An acute, or chronic, non-contagious, simple inflammation of the skin, characterized… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ellipse | A curve in which the focal distance of any point bears to its distance from the directrix a constant ratio smaller than unity. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| elome | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| elytron | (See quot.) Obs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| embattling | concr. in Heraldry; see quot. 1753 and cf. embattled adj. 2. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| enigmato- | combining form of enigma n., as in enigmaˈtographer n. a maker or explainer… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| entasis | Pathol. ‘Old term for tonic spasm’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| eschel | The third quality of powder blue. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| eulogic | Pertaining to eulogy; containing praise; commendatory. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| fario | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| faviform | Formed or shaped like a honeycomb, honeycombed; esp. in Surg. (see quot. 1753). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ficoides | A botanical name applied to various plants; in quots. the Ice-plant (Mesembrianthemum crystallinum). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| flattener | One who flattens; something used for flattening. | 1741 | Go To Quotation |
| fuchsia | A genus of ornamental shrubs (family Onagraceæ) with drooping flowers; a plant of this genus. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| gadding | The action or process of splitting rock with gads. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| gallopade | In the manège: A sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| growan | A soft decomposed granite, overlying the veins of tin in Cornwall. hard growan n. granite or moorstone. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| grumose | = grumous adj. 3. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| guariba | The Howling Monkey. (Cf. alouatte n., araguato n.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hatching | = hatch n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| heptandria | The seventh class in the Sexual System of Linnæus, containing plants having seven stamens. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hexandria | A class of plants in the Sexual System of Linnæus having six (equal) stamens. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Himantopus | A genus of wading-birds; the stilts. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| homophonous | Music. = homophonic adj. 1. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-block | A small platform, usually of stone, ascended by 3 or 4 steps, for convenience in mounting… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hydatism | A sound produced by motion of effused fluid in a cavity of the body. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrangea | A genus of shrubs (N.O. Saxifragaceæ), natives of the temperate regions of Asia and… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hypactic | Purgative. Also as n. (see quot. 1823). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hypnum | A large genus of pleurocarpous mosses; feather-moss. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| hyposcenium | The low wall supporting the front of the stage in a Greek theatre. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ice plant | Any of numerous plants of the family Aizoaceae whose leaves and stems are covered… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| icosandria | The twelfth class in the Linnæan Sexual System, containing plants with 20 or more stamens inserted on the calyx. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| incident | An inciding medicine. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| increation | The condition of being uncreated. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| inflex | = inflexed adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| inganno | (See quots.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| interseptum | A diaphragm or partition: esp. in Anat. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| irreductible | = irreducible adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| jacana | Any bird of the genus Parra (Jacana) or family Parridæ (Jacanidæ), consisting… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| jacaranda | A drug obtained from a tree of the genus Jacaranda. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| jacare | A South American alligator. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| jaguarete | Adaptation of the Guarani specific name for the jaguar; long mistaken by European writers… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Jehovist | One who holds that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew represent… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Labadist | A follower of Jean de Labadie, who seceded from the Roman Catholic Church and founded a sect holding Quietist views. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lapactic | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lech | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lemma | The husk or shell of a fruit. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lemniscate | Algebra. Used attrib. in lemniscate function, one of a class of elliptic… | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| leontiasis | A form of leprosy in which the face assumes a dusky, wrinkled, and somewhat lion-like appearance. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| liber | The inner bark of exogens; bast. Also attrib. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Linnaean | Of or pertaining to Linnæus or his system; given or instituted by Linnæus; adhering to the system of Linnæus. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| liphaemia | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lool | Error for loob n. 1, a vessel to receive the washings of metallic ores. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| looping | The running together of ore into a mass. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lupinaster | The bastard lupine (Trifolium Lupinaster) of Siberia, an umbellate clover (family Leguminosæ). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| lyrated | = lyrate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| malacopterygious | = malacopterygian adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| malacostomous | Of a fish: having a toothless jaw; cf. leather-mouthed adj. at leather n. 3. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| marblewood | Any of several kinds of decorative timber with mottled or banded grain; (Austral.) the… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Martynia | A genus of the family Pedaliaceae, consisting of sticky-haired plants, native to warm… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| matching | The action of match v.; fumigation with sulphur matches. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Melastoma | A genus of shrubs of South-East Asia (the type genus of the family Melastomataceae)… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Melia | A genus of trees (the type genus of the family Meliaceae), with pinnate or bipinnate… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Mesembryanthemum | A genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, which (as presently… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| mida | The larva of some flying insect (not identified). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| migrating | That typically or regularly migrates, that is characterized by migration, migratory… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| mizquitl | = mesquite n. 1a. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Monadelphia | In the Linnaean artificial system: the sixteenth class of plants, comprising… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Monandria | In the Linnaean artificial system: the first class of plants, comprising those… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Monoecia | In the Linnaean artificial system: the twenty-first class of plants, comprising those… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Monotropa | A genus of saprophytic (mycotrophic) dicotyledonous plants (family Ericaceae)… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| multivalve | Of molluscs and crustaceans (e.g. chitons and barnacles). Cf. valve n. 2. Obs. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| muscae volitantes | Small moving spots in the field of vision representing a normal or… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| mushroom-like | Resembling a mushroom, esp. in shape or colour. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| musk beetle | A slender, metallic green European longhorn beetle, Aromia moschata (family Cerambycidae). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Naja | Any of several cobras constituting the genus Naja. Also (now chiefly): the genus itself. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| nebel | An ancient Hebrew stringed instrument. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| nectarium | = nectary n. 2. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| nicol | = annabergite n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| noctuolent | Of a flowering plant: more strongly scented at night than during the day. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Octandria | In the Linnaean artificial system: the eighth class of plants, comprising… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ophiomancy | Divination by means of snakes. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| oporice | A medicine made from autumn fruits and wine, formerly used to treat dysentery, etc. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| orchotomy | Surgical removal of one or both testicles; castration; = orchiectomy n. Cf. later orchidotomy n. at orchido- comb._form 1. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| oryctography | The description of minerals; mineralogy. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| oryctology | The branch of science concerned with rocks, minerals, and fossils dug out of the earth; (also) spec. = palaeontology n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| osculatory | Geom. Of or relating to the osculation of curves or surfaces; osculating. osculatory circle n.… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| overweighted | Excessively weighted or heavy; overburdened, overloaded. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| palea | Any of the scales found on the receptacle at the base of the individual florets in many… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| panduriform | Esp. of a leaf: rounded at both ends and narrowed in the middle; fiddle-shaped. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pangonia | A class of crystals comprising those whose shape is a twelve-sided prism capped by a twelve-sided pyramid. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| paperworks | A place where paper is made; a paper mill. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| passage | intr. To move sideways in riding, the horse making controlled and exaggerated… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pastophorium | Ancient Hist. The apartment of the pastophori in an Egyptian temple. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Paullinia | A genus of woody, twining tropical lianas of the family Sapindaceae, including the… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pedated | = pedate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pelade | Alopecia; spec. alopecia areata. Cf. pseudopelade n. at pseudo- comb._form 2. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| peltated | = peltate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| petiolate | Having or attached by a petiole; stalked. Cf. sessile adj. 1. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| petiole | Bot. The stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem of a plant. Also: the stalk of a… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Petromyzon | A genus of lampreys, now comprising only the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, of coastal… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| phosphorical | Providing light. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pinnatifid | Of a leaf or frond: pinnately divided about halfway to the midrib. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| poa | Any of numerous grasses constituting the genus Poa (family Poaceae or Gramineae)… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Polyadelphia | In the Linnaean artificial system: the eighteenth class of plants, comprising those… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| polyandria | Bot. Usu. in form Polyandria. In the Linnaean artificial system: the thirteenth class… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Polygamia | In the Linnaean artificial system: the twenty-third class of plants, comprising those… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| premorse | Esp. of a root: having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Protea | The type genus of the family Proteaceae, comprising numerous evergreen shrubs and small… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| pyxidated | = pyxidate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| quaternate | Arranged in, or forming, a set or sets of four; composed of four parts. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| radicant | Esp. of a stem or fern frond: producing (adventitious) roots or rootlets; rooting. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ramulose | Having (many) small branches or divisions. Cf. ramose adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| rattle | A kind of fishing net. Also rattle-net. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| reclinate | Bot. Of a plant or part of a plant: bending downwards or back on itself. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| recolation | Repeated percolation. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| redented | Having salient and re-entrant angles; indented, stepped. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| repanded | = repand adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| rheostatics | The branch of science that deals with the equilibrium of fluids. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Rheum | A genus of the family Polygonaceae comprising the rhubarbs (see rhubarb n. 1a); (in form rheum) a plant of this genus, a rhubarb. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Rhizophora | A genus of tropical mangrove trees with prop roots arising from the stem and… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sacro- | | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sacrum | A composite, symmetrical, triangular bone which articulates laterally with the ilia… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| samolus | Bot. Adopted (by Linnæus) as the name of a genus of plants belonging to the order Primulaceæ. Also, a plant of this genus. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sarpo | (See quots.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sassarollo | The Rock Pigeon (Columba livia). | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| schisma | The difference between a diaschisma and a syntonic comma, represented by the ratio 32.805:32.768. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| scrupose | Rough, jagged. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-duck | Any duck of the sub-family Fuligulinæ, as the common scoter, Œdemia nigra, and the eider-duck. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-pine | See pine n. 2. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Seignette | The name of a French chemist of the seventeenth century used attrib. in Seignette salt… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Sida | A genus of malvaceous plants of a woolly or downy character, indigenous to warm climates… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| siderite | A plant of the genus Sideritis; see ironwort n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| silphium | A plant of the Mediterranean region, yielding a gum-resin or juice much valued by the ancients… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| simaruba | A tree of the genus Simaruba, esp. S. amara or officinalis (formerly called Quassia Simaruba)… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Simia | The class of animals consisting of the apes and monkeys, and more specifically of… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sinuato- | used as combining form of sinuate adj., prefixed to adjectives in the sense… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sluds | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| sluice-gate | The gate of a sluice, the part which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water; also, the upper gate of a lock. | 1781 | Go To Quotation |
| smoke-ball | Mil. A paper shell filled with a preparation which, when ignited, sends out clouds of smoke. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| soboliferous | Bearing shoots. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Sophora | A genus of leguminous trees, shrubs, or plants, characterized by having odd-pinnate… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| spastic | Pathol. Of the nature of a spasm or sudden contraction; characterized or affected by spasmodic symptoms or movements. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| spatha | Bot. A spathe. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| splenitis | Inflammation of the spleen, or a particular form of this. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| squalus | A shark. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| strobilus | Bot. A fir-cone, or any fruit resembling a fir-cone; an inflorescence made up of imbricated scales, as that of the hop. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Stromateus | A genus of flat fishes, typical of the family Stromateidæ. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| suborbicular | Almost orbicular; nearly circular. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| subrotund | Somewhat or almost rotund; roundish. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| suffibulum | A rectangular veil, white with a purple border, worn by vestals at the time of sacrifice. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| syngenesia | The nineteenth class in the Linnæan Sexual System, comprising plants having stamens coherent… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| syngenesious | Of the stamens: United by the anthers so as to form a tube, as in the Syngenesia (and… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| synonymist | One who treats of, or makes a list of, synonyms. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| syringo- | incision of a fistula. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| syrma | A long trailing garment, as that worn by tragic actors. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| tapayaxin | The orbicular horned lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare, incorrectly called the horned frog or toad. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| tertium sal | See quot. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| thalamus | See quot. 1842. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| thermopolion | (See quot. 1753.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| thymele | The altar of Dionysus in the centre of the orchestra in an ancient Greek theatre. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| tokay | A species of Gecko, or lizard of the family Geckonidæ, app. G. verticillatus, of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, and the Malay region. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| trifid | Split or divided into three by deep clefts or notches; three-cleft; esp. in Bot. and Zool. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| trifoliate | Three-leaved; esp. in Bot. consisting of three leaflets, as a compound leaf; also of… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| trilobous | = trilobate adj. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| trilocular | Having three cells or compartments, as the capsule of a plant, or the heart of a reptile. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| truttaceous | Related to the trout. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| tubulate | Formed into or like a tube; tubular. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| tutulus | A Roman head-dress formed by plaiting the hair in a cone above the forehead, worn esp. by the Flamen and his wife. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| ulex | A genus of thorny papilionaceous shrubs belonging to the order Leguminosæ; a plant… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| underbeard | (under- prefix 2b(b): cf. beard n. 8.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| unilocular | Having, consisting of, characterized by only one loculus (in various senses); one-celled. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| unsublimable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| uredines | Species of fungi parasitic upon and injurious to plants, etc. Cf. uredo n. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| urology | The scientific study of urine, its secretion and constituents. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Utricularia | A genus of scrophulariaceous plants, characterized by bearing small bladders at the… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| utriculus | Bot. (See quots. and utricle n. 1.) | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| vadiation | The action of requiring or giving surety or pledges. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Valencian | Of or belonging to Valencia (see Valencia n.) or its people. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| verde antico | = verd-antique n. 1. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| Volkameria | A Linnean genus of verbenaceous shrubs, characterized by their fleshy or corky fruit; a shrub or plant of this genus. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| volva | The membranous covering which completely encloses many fungi in the early stage of growth. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| whitefoot | Farriery. A white marking on a horse's foot (see quot. 1753); also, a horse with such a mark. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| zymo- | the science of fermentation; that department of chemistry which deals with ferments and their action. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |