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UNPOPE v. 2 definitions
To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.
UNPROPER a.
Not proper or peculiar; improper. [Obs.] -- Un*prop"er*ly, adv. [Obs.]
URETHROSCOPE n.
An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.
VAGINOPENNOUS a.
Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]
VIBROSCOPE n. 2 definitions
An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
VITASCOPE n.
A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.
VOLUMESCOPE n. 2 definitions
An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
WANHOPE n.
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.
WATER ANTELOPE n.
See Water buck.
WATER TELESCOPE n.
A telescope devised for looking into a body of water.
WHOOPER n.
One who, or that which, whooops. Woopher swan. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Swan.
WOPEN p.
Wept. Chaucer.
ZOETROPE n.
An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.
ZOOPRAXISCOPE; ZOOEPRAXISCOPE n.
An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.
ZOPE n.
A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).
A n.
lish and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph,…
A-TIPTOE adv.
On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.
ABANDON v. 2 definitions
; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.
ABANDONMENT n. 2 definitions
ing abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.
ABASIA n.
Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.
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