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290 words match “PATE”

GAUDY n.
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
GAY a.
Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]
GERM n.
ntire process in which a new being originates . . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of generation by which the germ is produced; and the act of development, by which that germ is evolved into the complete organism. Carpenter.
GHOST DANCE n.
A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Mes…
GO v.
into. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). -- To go large. (Naut) See under Large. -- To go off. (a) To go away; to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. Shak.
GYPSY MOTH; GIPSY MOTH n.
osterior part of the body, all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs. They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, etc., and hatch in the spring.
INCULP v.
To inculpate. [Obs.] Shelton.
INEXPECTABLE a.
Not to be expected or anticipated. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
INEXTIRPABLE a.
Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
INFRINGEMENT n.
An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.
INSIDE n.
y hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and loca…
INSTINCT a.
Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.
INTERCOMMON v.
To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. [Obs.] Bacon.
INTERFERANT n.
One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]
INTERIOR n.
ior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department. -- Secretary of the Interi…
INTERNATIONAL a.
Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.
JUSTIFY v.
To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts xiii. 39.
KNEE n.
oom. -- Knee jerk (Physiol.) a jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; one of the so-called tendon reflexes. -- Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary. -- Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it. -- Knee tri…
KNEE JERK n.
A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle.
KNEEPAN n.
A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
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