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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,998 words match “SIT”

The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

The quality or state of being torose.

TRANSIT n. 7 definitions

The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke.

TRANSITION n. 4 definitions

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

TRANSITION ZONE n.

The zone lying between the Boreal and Sonoran zones of North America. It includes an eastern or humid subdivision and a western arid one of corresponding temperature comprising the northern Great Plains and the lower slopes of the mountains of the western United States and Mexico. Called also Neutral zone.…

TRANSITIONAL a.

Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

TRANSITIONARY a.

TRANSITIVE a. 3 definitions

Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] Bacon.

TRANSITORILY adv.

In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.

TRANSITORINESS n.

The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

t time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought i…

TRANSPOSITION n. 2 definitions

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically: --(a) (Alg.)

TRANSPOSITIONAL a.

Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition. Pegge.

TRANSPOSITIVE a.

Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

ng, a tribasic acid, C6H3.(CO2)3, of the aromatic series, obtained, by the oxidation of mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance. [Written also trimesic.]

TUBEROSITY n. 2 definitions

The state of being tuberous.

The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness. [R.] Bailey.

The quality or state of being umbrose; shadiness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Quality or state of being unctuous. Sir T. Browne.

UNIVERSITY n. 3 definitions

uild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. [Obs.] The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others. Eng. Cyc.