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A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable. Goodwin.

See Phenomenon.

e; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

A speaking machine.

See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.

Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.

A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.

id and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]

An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.

A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. [R.]

In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

arly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. [Written also synonyme.] All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the…

Synonyms. [Obs.] Fuller.

Synonymous. [Obs.]

Synonymously. [Obs.]

Same as Synonym.

The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.

Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.