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463 words match “OBI”

INTERMOBILITY n.
Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.
JACOBEAN; JACOBIAN a.
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.
JACOBIN n. 4 definitions
nt agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
JACOBINE n.
A Jacobin.
JACOBINIC; JACOBINICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. Burke. -- Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly, adv.
JACOBINISM n.
The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.
JACOBINIZE v.
To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.
JACOBITE a. 3 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
JACOBITIC; JACOBITICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.
JACOBITISM n.
The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.
LITHOBILIC a.
Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
LOBIPED a.
Having lobate toes, as a coot.
LOOBILY a. 2 definitions
Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.
LYCHNOBITE n.
One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.
MACROBIOTIC a.
Long-lived. Dunglison.
MACROBIOTICS n.
The art of prolonging life.
METHAEMOGLOBIN n.
A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.
MICROBE; MICROBION n.
A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.
MICROBIAN a.
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.
MICROBIC a.
Of or pertaining to a microbe.
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