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Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.

Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [R.]

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

A failure to deposit or throw down.

Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

Failure or lack of development.

Too heavy.

h in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26.

The quality or state of being ponderable.

Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n.

Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.

Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.] M'Culloch.

To consider; to ponder. [R.]

The act of weighing. [R.] Arbuthnot.