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A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. Hydrogen silicide , a colorless, spontaneously inflammable gas, SiH4, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; -- called also silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly

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A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. Hydrogen silicide , a colorless, spontaneously inflammable gas, SiH4, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; -- called also silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly siliciureted hydrogen.

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  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
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• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• HYDROGENIUM
  Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COMPOUNDER
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• BINARY
  Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two . Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• CALL
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• COMPOUND CONTROL
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• CALLIOPE
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• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• HYDROGEN
  A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air , and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of
• HYDROGENATE
  To hydrogenize.
• METHANE
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• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
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• EKASILICON
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• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
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• ACRONYCALLY
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• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• DIAMETRICALLY
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• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.