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1,386 words match “INN”

INNUMEROUS a.
Innumerable. [Archaic] Milton.
INNUTRITION n.
Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
INNUTRITIOUS a.
Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.
INNUTRITIVE a.
Innutritious.
INNYARD n.
The yard adjoining an inn.
AFTER-DINNER n. 2 definitions
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
BEGINNER n.
cifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
BEGINNING n. 4 definitions
on a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.
BINNACLE n.
A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.
BINNY n.
A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.
BIPINNARIA n.
The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.
BIPINNATE; BIPINNATED a.
Twice pinnate.
BIPINNATIFID a.
Doubly pinnatifid.
BREADWINNER n.
The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.
CACHINNATION n.
om of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.
CACHINNATORY a.
Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.
CERTAINNESS n.
Certainty.
CHINNED a.
Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
CINCINNATI EPOCH n.
at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.
CINCINNUS n.
A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin"nal (#), a.
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