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Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture. [Obs.] The siccity and dryness of its flesh. Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

A state of spasm.

The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.

The quality or state of being spheroidal.

Stoicism. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]

The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

To deprive of the rank or rights of a city. [Obs.]

Inelasticity.

ing united; quality of the unique; unification. Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey. The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.

Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.

Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart. Carlyle.

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.