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3,506 words match “ROD”

ARTHRODIAL; ARTHRODIC a.
Of or pertaining to arthrodia.
ARTHRODYNIA n.
An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.
ARTHRODYNIC a.
Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.
BESTRODE n.
imp. & p. p. of Bestride.
BLACK ROD n. 2 definitions
the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]
BRODEKIN n.
A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]
BY-PRODUCT n.
A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.
CATELECTRODE n.
The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.
CENTRODE n.
In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
CHLORODYNE n.
A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
CHONDRODITE n.
A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
CORODY n.
enance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]
CORRODE v. 3 definitions
ing 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.
CORRODIATE v.
To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.
CORRODIBILITY n.
The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.
CORRODIBLE a.
Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.
CROW-TRODDEN a.
rked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.
DIARTHRODIAL a.
Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
DOWNTROD; DOWNTRODDEN a.
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.
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