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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,093 words match “ODE”

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

CEPHALOPOD; CEPHALOPODE n.

One of the Cephalopoda.

CESTODE a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. -- n.

the old imp. of chide. See Chide.

CHURCH MODES n.

The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY n.

A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

CODE n. 2 definitions

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

A joint defendant. Blackstone.

and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

CODEX n. 4 definitions

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

COLD-BLOODED a. 3 definitions

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

COMMODE n. 4 definitions

by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville.

CORRODE v. 3 definitions

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

CORRODENT n. 2 definitions

Anything that corrodes. Bp. King.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [R.]

DISPLODE v. 2 definitions

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.