The Collaborative International Dictionary
butadiene \butadiene\ n. a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.
Grege \Grege\, Gregge \Greg"ge\, v. t. [OE. gregier to burden.]
To make heavy; to increase. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.
Least \Least\ (l[=e]st), a. [OE. last, lest, AS. l[=ae]sast, l[=ae]sest, superl. of l[=ae]ssa less. See Less, a.] [Used as the superlative of little.] Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.
Note: Least is often used with the, as if a noun.
I am the least of the apostles.
--1 Cor. xv.
9.
At least, or At the least, at the least estimate, consideration, chance, etc.; being no less than; hence, at any rate; at all events; even. See However.
He who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses
The tempted with dishonor.
--Milton.
Upon the mast they saw a young man, at least if he
were a man, who sat as on horseback.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
In least, or In the least, in the least degree, manner,
etc. ``He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much.''
--Luke xvi. 10.
Least squares (Math.), a method of deducing from a number of carefully made yet slightly discordant observations of a phenomenon the most probable values of the unknown quantities.
Note: It takes as its fundamental principle that the most probable values are those which make the sum of the squares of the residual errors of the observation a minimum.
Recapture \Re*cap"ture\, v. t. To capture again; to retake.
Recapture \Re*cap"ture\ (r[-e]*k[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n.
The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
Penuchle \Pe"nu*chle\, Pinocle \Pin"o*cle\ Pinochle \Pin"o*chle\, n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
Pinochle \Pin"o*chle\, Pinocle \Pin"o*cle\, n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs. [Also spelled penuchle.]
Postscript \Post"script\, n. [L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See Post-, and Scribe.] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S.]
Synosteology \Syn*os`te*ol"o*gy\, n. [Pref. syn- + Gr. ? bone + -logy.] That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.
Crocodile \Croc"o*dile\ (kr[o^]k"[-o]*d[imac]l; 277), n. [L. crocodilus, Gr. kroko`deilos: cf. F. crocodile. Cf. Cookatrice.]
(Zo["o]l.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile ( Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile ( Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
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(Logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Crocodile bird (Zo["o]l.), an African plover ( Pluvianus [ae]gypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers.
Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey. [1913 Webster] ||
Clear-shining \Clear"-shin`ing\ (kl[=e]r"sh[imac]n`[i^]ng), a.
Shining brightly.
--Shak.
Usage examples of "clear-shining".
The Wests clearly made sure Carol Ann Cooper could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.
But there can be no doubt that the Wests made sure she could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.
Out of politeness the countess looked at her husband before accepting the invitation, but he cried out, without ceremony, that he was ready to go if I took the whole family.
It was something Granny Aching had said once, when Tiffany had been crying about a lamb.
I could hear their voices, full of excitement -- but the acoustics of the place made it impossible to get a good fix on the cries that were bounding back and forth across the lobby.
The Adelantado, hearing the cries, left Castaneda in his place to collect the people who had not come up, who were at least half the force, and went himself to see if they were in any danger.
I but said thy loved one should be adjudged insane, yet had ye not cried out I should have said that the condition is not one depending upon any definite change in the structure of his mind, upon no weakness of his brain.
Certainly, if a female manager or leader is seen crying and emotionally disabled in a situation that might be handled aggressively by a strong male, she will lose prestige in the eyes of many people.
But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas.
City advocates could cry bloody murder if you took one position, while the agribusiness lobby would come after you if you took the other.
Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man.
Paris divided in opinion, and to hear the alarming cries raised by the confederates of the Faubourgs when the King was already at St.
I acceded rather reluctantly to the proposition, though at that time I was incapable of ascertaining his intention, which was, after conducting me to a remote part of the structure, to deliver me into the hands of three ruffians, who, having covered me with a veil so thick as to exclude every object from my view, placed me upon a mule, and conveyed me, regardless of my cries, through the deepest recesses of the woods, when, having arrived at a small inn, situated at the extremity of the forest, we stopped without alighting for refreslnnent.
That we moved your big soft body with allegedly not enough notice and that east-side school you cried over and that Negro research resource librarian there with the hair out to here that.
Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.