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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,867 words match “DIT”

Fixedness. [Obs.] Boyle.

The state of being flaccid.

The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.

eing fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society. J. R. Green.

FRIGIDITY n. 3 definitions

The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne.

Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.

FUMIDITY; FUMIDNESS n.

The state of being fumid; smokiness.

GADITANIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n.

The state of being gelid.

GISMONDINE; GISMONDITE n.

A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.

GNATHOPODITE n.

Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

Grandness. [Obs.] Camden.

The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [R.]

The lesser third. Busby.

HEREDITABILITY n.

State of being hereditable. Brydges.

HEREDITABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.

HEREDITABLY adv.

By inheritance. W. Tooke.

HEREDITAMENT n.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

HEREDITARILY adv.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope.