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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater

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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. Macaulay.

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  • COLLECTIVENESS
    A state of union; mass.
  • COLLECTEDLY
    Composedly; coolly.
  • ELICITATION
    The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
  • ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
    Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • ELECTROTYPER
    One who electrotypes.
  • ELECTREPETER
    An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • SUGGESTER
    One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
  • SUGGEST
    1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
  • SHADOWY
    1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
  • VALUABLENESS
    The quality of being valuable.
  • CHERISHMENT
    Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
  • EXTOLMENT
    Praise. Shak.
  • PREFERMENT
    1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
    The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
  • ELECTRONIC
    Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
  • ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
    One versed in electro-biology.
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • ENSWEEP
    To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
  • MEGATHEROID
    One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.

 

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