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fillip
n. - A movement made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture); a smart stroke or tap given by this means.--Something that serves to rouse, excite, or animate; a stimulus.
preterist
n. - Theol. A person who believes that the prophecies of the book of Revelation have already been fulfilled.--A person whose chief interest is in the past; a person who favours the past or past beliefs.
preterition
n. - Rhetoric. A figure in which attention is drawn to something by professing to omit it.--The act of passing over something without notice; omission, disregard.--Theol. Omission from God's elect; non-election to salvation.
apnea
n. - Pathol. Suspension of breathing; cessation of respiration.
ety. Greek ἄπνοια , < ἄπνοος breathless.
byssus
n. - An exceedingly fine and valuable textile fibre and fabric known to the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly (as shown by recent microscopic examination of mummy-cloths, which according to Herodotus were made of βύσσος) a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’.--Zool. The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs of the genus Pinna and various mussels attach themselves to the surface of rocks; it is secreted by the byssus-gland in the foot.
‘These filaments have been spun, and made into small articles of apparel‥Their colour is brilliant, and ranges from a beautiful golden yellow to a rich brown; they also are very durable‥The fabric is so thin that a pair of stockings may be put in an ordinary-sized snuff-box’ ( S. W. Beck Draper's Dict. 39).
pruritus (prurit)
n. - Itching of the skin or other surface. Also fig.: a strong desire or craving.
crapula
n. - The sickness or indisposition following upon a drunken or gluttonous debauch.
ety. Latin crāpula excessive drinking, inebriation, intoxication, < Greek κραιπάλη drunken headache or nausea, the result of a drunken debauch. In adopting the Greek word, the Romans seem to have put the cause for the result; both senses are found in the English derivatives.
suppurate
v. - trans. To cause (a sore, tumour, etc.) to form or secrete pus; to bring to a head. Also absol. to induce suppuration. Obs.--intr. To form or secrete pus, come to a head.
lanugo
n. - Fine soft hair or down, or a surface resembling this; spec. that covering the human fœtus.
n. - A movement made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture); a smart stroke or tap given by this means.--Something that serves to rouse, excite, or animate; a stimulus.
preterist
n. - Theol. A person who believes that the prophecies of the book of Revelation have already been fulfilled.--A person whose chief interest is in the past; a person who favours the past or past beliefs.
preterition
n. - Rhetoric. A figure in which attention is drawn to something by professing to omit it.--The act of passing over something without notice; omission, disregard.--Theol. Omission from God's elect; non-election to salvation.
apnea
n. - Pathol. Suspension of breathing; cessation of respiration.
ety. Greek ἄπνοια , < ἄπνοος breathless.
byssus
n. - An exceedingly fine and valuable textile fibre and fabric known to the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly (as shown by recent microscopic examination of mummy-cloths, which according to Herodotus were made of βύσσος) a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’.--Zool. The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs of the genus Pinna and various mussels attach themselves to the surface of rocks; it is secreted by the byssus-gland in the foot.
‘These filaments have been spun, and made into small articles of apparel‥Their colour is brilliant, and ranges from a beautiful golden yellow to a rich brown; they also are very durable‥The fabric is so thin that a pair of stockings may be put in an ordinary-sized snuff-box’ ( S. W. Beck Draper's Dict. 39).
pruritus (prurit)
n. - Itching of the skin or other surface. Also fig.: a strong desire or craving.
crapula
n. - The sickness or indisposition following upon a drunken or gluttonous debauch.
ety. Latin crāpula excessive drinking, inebriation, intoxication, < Greek κραιπάλη drunken headache or nausea, the result of a drunken debauch. In adopting the Greek word, the Romans seem to have put the cause for the result; both senses are found in the English derivatives.
suppurate
v. - trans. To cause (a sore, tumour, etc.) to form or secrete pus; to bring to a head. Also absol. to induce suppuration. Obs.--intr. To form or secrete pus, come to a head.
lanugo
n. - Fine soft hair or down, or a surface resembling this; spec. that covering the human fœtus.
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