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3,984 words match “LIG”

CALIGATION n.
Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
CALIGINOSITY n.
Darkness. [R.] G. Eliot.
CALIGINOUS a.
Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. [R.] Blount. The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n.
CALIGO n.
Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
CALIGRAPHIC a.
See Calligraphic.
CALIGRAPHY n.
See Caligraphy.
CALLIGRAPHER n.
One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL a.
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
CALLIGRAPHIST n.
A calligrapher
CALLIGRAPHY n.
Fair or elegant penmanship.
CANDLELIGHT n.
The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.
CO-RELIGIONIST n.
One of the same religion with another.
COBELLIGERENT a. 2 definitions
Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.
COERULIGNONE n.
A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.
COLLIGATE v. 3 definitions
To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.
COLLIGATION n. 2 definitions
that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.
CORALLIGENA n.
Same as Anthozoa.
CORALLIGENOUS a.
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
CORALLIGEROUS n.
Producing coral; coraliferous.
CORRELIGIONIST n.
A co-religion
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