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595 words match “TAKING”

ORFGILD n.
Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.
ORGANIZE v.
g order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.
ORIENTATION n.
process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
OSCULANT a.
r on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
OSMOSE n.
sed, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the…
PAINFUL a.
Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.
PANTAMORPHIC a.
Taking all forms.
PANTASCOPIC a.
Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.
PARTICIPIAL a.
Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.
PARTICIPLE n.
A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and ex…
PARTING n.
A separation; a leave-taking. Shak. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.
PARTNERSHIP n.
An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
PENIBLE a.
Painstaking; assidous. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PERFORMANCE n.
on; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
PERILOUS a.
Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton.
PERNANCY n.
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.
PHAGOCYTE n.
A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
PHOTOHELIOGRAPH n.
A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.
PHOTOTELESCOPE n.
A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
PIGNORATION n.
The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.
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