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9,039 words match “SON”

CONSONOUS a.
Agreeing in sound; symphonious.
CRIMSON n. 4 definitions
l. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak.
DAMSON n.
A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
DAWSONITE n.
A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
DIAPASON n. 5 definitions
es an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. Milton.
DISDIAPASON n.
An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.
DISGARRISON v.
To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.
DISHERISON n.
The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.
DISINHERISON n.
Same as Disherison. Bacon.
DISPERSONATE v.
To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.
DISPRISON v.
To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. [R.] Bulwer.
DISPUTISON n.
Dispute; discussion. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISSONANCE n. 2 definitions
sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.
DISSONANCY n.
Discord; dissonance.
DISSONANT a. 2 definitions
Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.
DOBSON n.
The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
DORSIMESON n.
(Anat.) See Meson.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE n.
The actors in a drama or play.
ELISON n. 2 definitions
Division; separation. [Obs.] Bacon.
EMPOISON v. 2 definitions
To poison; to impoison. Shak.
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