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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,378 words match “SAL”

Surmise. [R.] Milton.

t of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise. How to secure the lady from surprisal. Milton. Because death is uncertain, let us prevent its surprisal. Barrow.

TARSAL a. 3 definitions

A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.

e bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

TARSOMETATARSAL a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations.

TATTERSALL'S n.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

THESSALIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Thessaly in Greece. Shak. -- n.

THESSALONIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia. -- n.

TIBIOTARSAL a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.

A torsel. Knight.

TRANSALPINE a. 2 definitions

t side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine. " Transalpine garbs." Beau. & Fl.

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.

TRANSVERSAL a. 2 definitions

Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line. -- Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or manifested by, cough.

That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th.

UNIVERSAL a. 7 definitions

le number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. "Anointed universal King." Milton. The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. This universal frame began. Dryden.

UNIVERSALIAN a.

Of or pertaining to Universalism; Universalist. [R.]

UNIVERSALISM n.

The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.

UNIVERSALIST n. 3 definitions

One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.

UNIVERSALISTIC a.

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.