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113 words match “ARABLE”

EMBRACEMENT n.
State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon.
EPISODE n.
iving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
ESPLEES n.
h ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.
EXEMPTITIOUS a.
Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.
EXPLICATION n.
or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.
FIND v.
hak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton. -- To find fault with, to blame; to censure. -- To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often…
FLOOD v.
cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
FOLDING n.
The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
FOLIATED a.
Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
FRONDOSE a.
Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.
GARLIC n.
esser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
HYLOZOISM n.
e that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.
IN- n.
An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.
INCOMPARED a.
Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.
INDISCERPIBLE; INDISCERPTIBLE a.
Not discerpible; inseparable. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. -- In`dis*cerp"i*ble*ness, n., In`dis*cerp"ti*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- In`dis*cerp"ti*bly, adv. [Obs.]
INDIVIDUALLY adv.
In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.
INDIVISIBILITY n.
The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.
INDIVISIBLE a.
Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
INFIELD n.
Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield. [Scotland] Jamieson.
INHERENCE; INHERENCY n.
The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.
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