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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL a.
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
LABYRINTHICI n.
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
LABYRINTHIFORM a.
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
LABYRINTHINE a.
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
LABYRINTHODON n.
sic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.
LABYRINTHODONT a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.
LABYRINTHODONTA n.
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
ALABAMA PERIOD n.
A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
ALABASTER n. 3 definitions
mite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
ALABASTRIAN a.
Alabastrine.
ALABASTRINE a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.
ALABASTRUM n.
A flower bud. Gray.
ANNIHILABLE a.
Capable of being annihilated.
ANNULLABLE a.
That may be Annulled.
APPEALABLE a. 2 definitions
led against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.
APPELLABLE a.
Appealable.
ASSAILABLE a.
Capable of being assailed.
ASSIMILABILITY n.
The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.
ASSIMILABLE a.
That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.
ASTROLABE n. 2 definitions
An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.
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