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A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.

One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]

The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.

m simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.

or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.…

The skrike. [Prov. Eng.]

re union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. The solidarity . . . of Breton and Wel…

The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; -- The soul is a…

Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).

Siderite occuring in spheroidal masses.

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. Spenser.

By means of the breath. [Obs.] Holder.

Animated or possessed by a spirit. [Obs.] "So talked the spirited, sly snake." Milton.

Full of spirit; spirited. [R.] The spiritful and orderly life of our own grown men. Milton. -- Spir"it*ful*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*ful*ness, n.

Spiritualsm.

A spiritualist.

Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.