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8,783 words match “ERA”

ITERATION n.
Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon. What needs this iteration, woman Shak.
ITERATIVE a.
Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.
ITINERACY n.
The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
ITINERANCY n. 2 definitions
A passing from place to place. Dr. H. More.
ITINERANT a. 2 definitions
ling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…
ITINERANTLY adv.
In an itinerant manner.
ITINERARY a. 2 definitions
Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.
ITINERATE v. 2 definitions
To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.
JASPERATED a.
mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
JAZERANT n.
of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant.
JELERANG n.
A large, handsome squirrel (Sciurus Javensis), native of Java and Southern Asia; -- called also Java squirrel.
KERAMIC a.
Same as Ceramic.
KERAMICS n.
Same as Ceramics.
KERAMOGRAPHIC a.
Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.
KERANA n.
A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
KERARGYRITE n.
See Cerargyrite.
KERASIN n.
A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.
KERASINE a.
Resembling horn; horny; corneous.
KERATIN n.
A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decompositio…
KERATITIS n.
Inflammation of the cornea.
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