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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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298 words match “SEME”

ECLAIRCISSEMENT n.
ng up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.
ECRASEMENT n.
The operation performed with an écraseur.
EMBASEMENT n.
Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.
EMBOYSSEMENT n.
An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EMPRESSEMENT n.
Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.
ENCASEMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
ENDORSEMENT n.
Same as Indorsement.
ENFRANCHISEMENT n. 2 definitions
a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.
ERASEMENT n.
The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.
ESPOUSEMENT n.
The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
EXCUSEMENT n.
Excuse. [Obs.] Gower.
FRANCHISEMENT n.
Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.
IMBURSEMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed. [Obs.]
IMPOSEMENT n.
Imposition. [Obs.]
INCASEMENT n. 2 definitions
The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.
INCENSEMENT n.
Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
INCREASEMENT n.
Increase. [R.] Bacon.
INDORSEMENT n. 3 definitions
Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct. Blank indorsement. See under Blank.
MEGASEME a.
orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.
MESOSEME a.
Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
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