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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “BAIN”

BAIN n.
A bath; a bagnio. [Obs.] Holland.
BAIN-MARIE n.
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
AUBAINE n.
Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.
THEBAINE n.
A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.
ALTRUISTIC a.
Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to Ant: egoistic or Ant: selfish. Bain. -- Al`tru*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
DROIT n.
spect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. Abbott. Droit d'aubaine. See under Aubaine. -- Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hosti…
INTUITIONIST n.
Same as Intuitionalist. Bain.
LUTECIUM n.
A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.
OBVERSION n.
en are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain.
RECLAIM v.
At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.
RHOMB n.
rhombohedron. Fresnel's rhomb (Opt.), a rhomb or oblique parallelopiped of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray cir…
SAINT n.
sed as the sign of the presence and command of an admiral. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- Saint Gobain glass (Chem.), a fine variety of soda-lime plate glass, so called from St.Gobain in France, where it was manufactured. -- Saint Ignatius's bean (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the Philippines (Strychnos Ignatia), of properties…
SYNECDOCHE n.
the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain.