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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,336 words match “HIT”

The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

To purify from mephitic. -- De*meph`i*ti*za"tion, n.

ELSEWHITHER adv.

To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.

A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.

One who resolves religion into prayer. [Obs.] Gauden.

GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE n.

British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillæ, and maxillipeds.

GOTHITE; GOETHITE n.

A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

ncils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other exciting liquid.

Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid. -- Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of the carbon which is present as graphite. Raymond.…

GRAPHITOID; GRAPHITOIDAL a.

Resembling graphite or plumbago.

GREAT WHITE WAY n.

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.

A shell of the genus Gryphea.

HALOTRICHITE n.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.

ght and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.