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A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.

r brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.…

A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.

A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.

A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near…

With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.

A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness.

A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.

A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as carbinol, glycerol, etc.

A suffix used in medical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.

A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.

An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amendatory, etc.

A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a globe.

An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.

A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.

A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.

A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix. Parkhurst.