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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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442 words match “FALSE”

PSEUDO-CHINA n.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo- china), found in America.

PSEUDO-DIPTERAL a.

Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.

PSEUDO-GALENA n.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

PSEUDO-HYPERTHOPHIC a.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

PSEUDO-METALLIC a.

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

PSEUDO-PERIPTERAL a. 2 definitions

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

PSEUDO-ROMANTIC a.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

PSEUDOBLEPSIS n.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.

PSEUDODOX a. 2 definitions

Not true in opinion or doctrine; false. -- n.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

PSEUDOGRAPHY n.

False writing; forgery.

PSEUDOLOGIST n.

One who utters falsehoods; a liar.

Falsehood of speech. Arbuthnot.

PSEUDONYMOUS a.

Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ly, adv. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ness, n.

PSEUDOSCORPIONES n.

alpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser's name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

ors for the secretary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves. Bacon. False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. -- Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. -- On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quart…

f radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. Ex. xxiii. 1.