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A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks;

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A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes. 2. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. 3. Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

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    One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
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    A nematoid worm.
  • SYSTEMATIZE
    To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • TRACKLAYER
    Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • ROUNDFISH
    Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
  • PROGRESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • ROUND-UP
    The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • PROCEED
    To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
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    One who proceeds.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
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    Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • SPACE
    One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
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    A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • INCONSEQUENCE
    The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
  • FRICATRICE
    A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
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    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
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    Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
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  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • IMPROVISATRICE
    See IMPROVVISATRICE
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
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    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
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    1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
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    Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
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    A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

 

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