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Termination a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

face as an expression of pain or derision. -- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. -- To make water. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. -- To make way, or To make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. -- To make words, to multiply word…

The science of the determination of the density of vapors and gases.

Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn. Let me but move one question to your daughter. Shak. They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular res…

courage, determination.

he fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

ales; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.

A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbonsl as, nonone.

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

secutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve. Brande & C.

he element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

o a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.

The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon. So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period. Milton. Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period. Jer. Taylor. This is the perio…

r gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. We will persuade him, be it possible. Shak.