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3,813 words match “NIS”

FLUXIONIST n.
One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.
FOREADMONISH v.
To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event. Bp. Hall.
FOREIGNISM n.
a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.
FRATERNATION; FRATERNISM n.
Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.
FUNIS n.
A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.
FURNISH v. 3 definitions
useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That…
FURNISHER n.
One who supplies or fits out.
FURNISHMENT n.
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] Daniel.
FUSTIANIST n.
A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.
GALENISM n.
The doctrines of Galen.
GALENIST n.
A follower of Galen.
GALLICANISM n.
The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
GALVANISM n. 2 definitions
Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
GALVANIST n.
One versed in galvanism.
GANISTER; GANNISTER n.
A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.
GARNISH v. 9 definitions
ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.
GARNISHEE n. 3 definitions
One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
GARNISHER n.
One who, or that which, garnishes.
GARNISHMENT n. 4 definitions
or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
GASTORNIS n.
A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.
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