Wiktionary
n. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
n. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
alt. The art and science of gems n. The art and science of gems
n. A muscarinic antagonist and antispasmodic, used in the methylbromide form.
a. Of or pertaining to thiobenzoic acid or its derivatives
n. A tinamou, ''Tinamus solitarius''.
n. (context mostly attributive English) Land that is not cropland.
n. (context biology English) The production of a bud or gem.
n. (land mine English)
n. (plural of synexin English)
n. (plural of fop English)
n. (plural of dynamitist English)
n. (context computing English) A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.
n. (plural of disappointment English)
n. Someone who rides a boogieboard.
n. One who nuzzles.
n. (context mineralogy English) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, calcium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, tin, and titanium.
a. Describing a pelagic zone of the oceans between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones
a. Not criminological.
n. (alternative spelling of sea star English)
n. (alternative form of inquirer English)
n. (plural of declivity English)
a. of, or relating to extropy n. An adherent or advocate of, or an activist for, extropy or (l/en: extropianism) and its goals or principles.
a. susceptible to bribery.
honoured, celebrated v
(en-past of: fete)
n. The condition of being deducible
n. A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: receive)
n. (context physics English) The measurement of changes in volume that accompany some other physical phenomenon
Usage examples of "dilatometry".
But if ye like not the journey, abide here in this town the onset of Walter the Black.
So they took counsel together, and to some it seemed better to abide the onset on their vantage ground.
Because of the speed - and thus the intensity - of the onset of the rush, smoking is the most addictive mode of delivery for illicit drugs.
Most people are oblivious to the onset of dehydration, due in part to the lack of thirst.
Beginning at the onset of puberty, in most cases, it involves the gradual replacement of exocrine and endocrine glandular tissues with lipidous cells.
At the onset of the recitation Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves.
Note the insidious onset of late rejection after cessation of globulin therapy.
While the little waves leap in the sunset, And strike with a miniature shock, In sportive and infantine onset, The base of the iron-stone rock.
Nevertheless, Minnie, Lightening, and Orah showed no onset of doggy passion.
Maruja suffered the onset of phlebitis that caused severe pains in her legs.
Vintners, grocers and bakers commonly laid in large stocks well before the onset of the rains, while herds of cattle were driven into the covered pounds outside the Gate of Lilies, there to be fed on roots and hay, for slaughter as required.
But I recall the symptoms that occurred at its onset, and I shall report any such reoccurrence immediately.
Ude Neuyen, to the double breath of Sergeant Lu Wai and Letitia Dogias, the communications engineer, and wondered how it had been for the first colonists: listening to the breath of someone close by, waiting for the onset of the cough that meant a lover or child was going to die.
In the inhalational anthrax cases following September 11, the average time from exposure to the bacteria to the onset of symptoms was four days.
He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.