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An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. (more info) stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p.pr. of stare to stand. See 1. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of

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An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. (more info) stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p.pr. of stare to stand. See 1. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure. Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.

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  • 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
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • RHYMERY
    The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • METERGRAM
    A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • METERAGE
    The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • FORME
    See PATTé
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • VACUOMETER
    An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • ACIDIMETER
    An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
  • PNEUMONOMETER
    A spirometer; a pneumometer.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • LORDLINESS
    The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
  • ALTIMETER
    An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
  • PNEOMETER
    A spirometer.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

 

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