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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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943 words match “TINE”

MISTINESS n.
State of being misty.
MUSTINESS n.
The quality or state of being musty.
MUTINE n. 2 definitions
A mutineer. [Obs.]
MUTINEER n.
One guilty of mutiny.
NARCOTINE n.
An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.
NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE a.
Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
NASTINESS n.
The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity. The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dryden.
NAUGHTINESS n.
state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness. I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. 1 Sam. xvii. 28.
NICOTINE n.
An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.
NITRATINE n.
A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.
NORBERTINE n.
See Premonstrant.
OBSERVANTINE n.
One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
OSTEODENTINE n.
A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.
PALATINE a. 5 definitions
a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.
PALESTINIAN; PALESTINEAN a.
Of or pertaining to Palestine.
PARIETINE n.
A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [Obs.] Burton.
PATIN; PATINE n.
A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.
PAYTINE n.
An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
PECTINEAL a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the pecten.
PENTINE n.
An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene.
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