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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8,209 words match “FORM”

NONPERFORMANCE n.
Neglect or failure to perform.
NONUNIFORMIST n.
eeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.
NUCIFORM a.
Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.
NUCLEIFORM a.
Formed like a nucleus or kernel.
OCULIFORM a.
In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.
OMNIFORM a.
Having every form or shape. Berkeley.
OMNIFORMITY n.
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
OPERCULIFORM a.
Having the form of a lid or cover.
OUTFORM n.
External appearance. [Obs.]
OVALIFORM a.
Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
OVERINFORM v.
To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.
OVIFORM a.
Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.
PALIFORM a.
Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
PALPIFORM a.
Having the form of a palpus.
PAMPINIFORM a.
In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
PANDURATE; PANDURIFORM a.
te, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.
PAPILLIFORM a.
Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
PAPPIFORM a.
Resembling the pappus of composite plants.
PARABOLIFORM a.
Resembling a parabola in form.
PARALLEL TRANSFORMER n.
A transformer connected in parallel.
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