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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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192 words match “EROS”

CARDIOSCLEROSIS n.

Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

DEUTEROSCOPY n. 2 definitions

d sight. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.

GENEROSITY n. 3 definitions

The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow.

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

The character or personality of a hero. "Three years of heroship." Cowper.

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me" Aytoun.

HETEROSOMATI n.

, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.

HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS a.

Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

HETEROSTYLED a.

Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.

HETEROSTYLISM n.

The condition of being heterostyled.

Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.

INTEROSCULANT a. 2 definitions

Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.

INTEROSCULATE v. 2 definitions

To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

INTEROSSEAL; INTEROSSEOUS a.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.…

MEROS n. 2 definitions

The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] Weale.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.