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The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. (more info) 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The

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The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. (more info) 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey. 3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. 4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

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  • YOUNGISH
    Somewhat young. Tatler.
  • 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
  • DISPOSEMENT
    Disposal. Goodwin.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • YOUNGLY
    Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
  • DISPOSURE
    1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • DISPOSITED
    Disposed. Glanvill.
  • YOUNG
    , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • YOUNGTH
    Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
  • DISPOSITOR
    The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
  • DISPOSE
    Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
  • DISPOSEDNESS
    The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • DISPOSSESS
    To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
  • 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.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • PENNIFORM
    Having the form of a feather or plume.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.

 

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