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A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The

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A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• READ
  1. To give advice or counsel. 2. To tell; to declare. Spenser. 3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• WAVESON
  Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• READILY
  1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
• FALL
  1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. 2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. 3. Death;
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.