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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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681 words match “ONDE”

DESPONDER n.
One who desponds.
DIAMONDED a. 2 definitions
Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
DISCORRESPONDENT a.
Incongruous. W. Montagu.
DISPONDEE n.
A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.
EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY n.
Equality of weight; equipoise.
EQUIPONDERANT a.
Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.
EQUIPONDERATE v. 2 definitions
To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.
EQUIPONDEROUS a.
Having equal weight. Bailey.
FONDE v.
To endeavor; to strive; to try. [Obs.] Chaucer.
FRONDE n.
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
FRONDED a.
Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.
FRONDENT a.
Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]
FRONDESCE v.
To unfold leaves, as plants.
FRONDESCENCE n. 2 definitions
The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
FRONDEUR n.
A member of the Fronde.
IMPONDERABILITY n.
The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.
IMPONDERABLE a. 2 definitions
Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
IMPONDERABLENESS n.
The quality or state of being imponderable.
IMPONDEROUS a.
Imponderable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
INCONDENSABILITY; INCONDENSIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being incondensable.
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