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A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so
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A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits. (more info) biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of coquere to cook, bake. 1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon. 2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card. 3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - FLOURY
Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Capable of being extracted. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORME
First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer. - DEFLOURER
One who deflours; a ravisher. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.