A High-school Dictionary of the English Language Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous: With an Appendix Containing Various Useful Tables : Mainly Abridged from the Latest Edition of the Quarto Dictionary of Noah WebsterIvison,Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1873 - 415 pages |
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... metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline , crystallize , and the like , are written with the since they are derived respectively from the Latin chancellarius ( through the French ) , and metallum , and the Greek ...
... metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline , crystallize , and the like , are written with the since they are derived respectively from the Latin chancellarius ( through the French ) , and metallum , and the Greek ...
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... metal , model , panel , parallel , parcel , pencil , peril , pis- ravel , revel , rival , rowel , The e is retained in the words hoeing , shoe- ing , and toeing ( from hoe , shoe , and toe ) , in order to prevent a doubt as to the ...
... metal , model , panel , parallel , parcel , pencil , peril , pis- ravel , revel , rival , rowel , The e is retained in the words hoeing , shoe- ing , and toeing ( from hoe , shoe , and toe ) , in order to prevent a doubt as to the ...
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... metals by the cupel . Af - fin'i - ty , n . Relation by marriage ; close agreement ; chemical attraction . Af - firm ' , v . t . To establish or ratify ; to declare positively . -SYN . To aver ; protest ; assert ; asseverate . Af - firm ...
... metals by the cupel . Af - fin'i - ty , n . Relation by marriage ; close agreement ; chemical attraction . Af - firm ' , v . t . To establish or ratify ; to declare positively . -SYN . To aver ; protest ; assert ; asseverate . Af - firm ...
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... metals into gold . Al'eo - hol , n . Pure or highly rectified spirit . Aleo - hol'ic , a . Pertaining to , or partaking of , alcohol . Al'eo - răn , n . The sacred book of the Mohammedans . Al'eove , or Al - ecve ' ( 111 ) , n . A ...
... metals into gold . Al'eo - hol , n . Pure or highly rectified spirit . Aleo - hol'ic , a . Pertaining to , or partaking of , alcohol . Al'eo - răn , n . The sacred book of the Mohammedans . Al'eove , or Al - ecve ' ( 111 ) , n . A ...
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... metals ; a baser metal mixed with a fine . v . t . To debase by mixing . Al - loy'age , n . Act of alloying or mixing metals . All - saints ' - day , n . The first day of November . All - souls ' - day , n . The second day of November ...
... metals ; a baser metal mixed with a fine . v . t . To debase by mixing . Al - loy'age , n . Act of alloying or mixing metals . All - saints ' - day , n . The first day of November . All - souls ' - day , n . The second day of November ...
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