Search the Dictionary

Multinuclear.

A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]

f Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

It is not clear; -- a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.

It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.

Nurture; education; culture; bringing up. [Obs.] Nortelry . . . learned at the nunnery. Chaucer.

Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. B. Jonson.

That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.

n behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

street; to obstruct the channels of the body. 'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear. Pope.

tivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to Ant: new land, that is, to land lately cleared.

Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. "Omnifarious learning." Coleridge.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.

Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.]

Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.

perate but on a few. Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.

"Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.