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The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc. 2. The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction

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The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc. 2. The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction sphere. The name has been used both as excluding and including the centrosome, and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not.

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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
  • DISTINCTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
  • DISTEMPERATE
    1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • ASTERISK
    The figure of a star, thus,
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • DISTRIBUTIVENESS
    Quality of being distributive.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • DISTRAUGHTED
    Distracted. Spenser.
  • DISTENSIVE
    Distending, or capable of being distended.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • DISTASTURE
    Something which excites distaste or disgust. Speed.
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • DISTANCE
    1. To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller. 2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.
  • DISTEMPER
    1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon. Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four "humors" in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • MESOGASTER
    The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • GASTEROMYCETES
    An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • STUNDIST
    One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject
  • BAGGAGE MASTER
    One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
  • 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.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • 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.

 

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