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Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.

Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]

Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.

An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]

A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.

er a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.

Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction. -- Ty`po*lith`o*graph"ic (#), a.

To disown the authority of; to repudiate.

A touchhole; a vent.

The hawthorn.

A thorny European shrub (Hippophaë rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden.

Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.

Without. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.

A combining form from Gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.

Having yellow fruit.