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That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

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  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • ELECTRICIAN
    An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • FORCEPS
    The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
  • BRANCHY
    Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • STATICALLY
    In a statical manner.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • ELECTRIC
    A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
  • FORCEFUL
    Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

 

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