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tame
(encz) | tame,krotit v: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,krotký adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,ochočený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,ochočit v: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,zkrocený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,zkrotit v: Zdeněk Brož |
tame
(encz) | tame,zkrotnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
Tame
(gcide) | Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Taming.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G.
z[aum]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See
Tame, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle
and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a
wild beast.
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They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.
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2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride
or passions of youth.
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Tame
(gcide) | Tame \Tame\, v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.]
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to
distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country,
and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his
stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but
providence, hath reserved for time of need. --Fuller.
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Tame
(gcide) | Tame \Tame\, a. [Compar. Tamer; superl. Tamest.] [AS. tam;
akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel.
tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. ?, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame,
and perhaps to E. beteem. [root]61. Cf. Adamant, Diamond,
Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.]
1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness;
accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame
deer, a tame bird.
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2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
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Tame slaves of the laborious plow. --Roscommon.
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3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat;
insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
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Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
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tame
(wn) | tame
adj 1: flat and uninspiring
2: very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was
one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with
no will or power to act but as directed" [ant: wild]
3: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame
animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tame, tamed]
[ant: untamed, wild]
4: very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston
Hughes [syn: meek, tame]
v 1: correct by punishment or discipline [syn: tame,
chasten, subdue]
2: make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that
aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his
potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down,
moderate, tame]
3: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
"domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate,
cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]
4: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He
tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn:
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim,
tame]
5: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to
humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The
wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn:
domesticate, tame] |
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testament
(msas) | testament
- will |
testament
(msasasci) | testament
- will |
aspartame
(encz) | aspartame,aspartam n: Zdeněk Brož |
catamenia
(encz) | catamenia,katamenie n: Zdeněk Brožcatamenia,menstruace n: Zdeněk Brož |
catamenial
(encz) | catamenial, adj: |
datamedia
(encz) | Datamedia, |
hereditament
(encz) | hereditament,dědictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
letters testamentary
(encz) | letters testamentary, n: |
metamere
(encz) | metamere, n: |
metameric
(encz) | metameric,metamerní Zdeněk Brož |
new testament
(encz) | New Testament,Nový zákon |
octameter
(encz) | octameter, n: |
old testament
(encz) | Old Testament,Starý zákon n: [jmén.] část Bible |
pentamerous
(encz) | pentamerous,pětičetný adj: Zdeněk Brožpentamerous,pětičlenný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pentameter
(encz) | pentameter,pentametr n: Zdeněk Brožpentameter,pětistopý verš n: Zdeněk Brož |
pentamethylenetetrazol
(encz) | pentamethylenetetrazol, n: |
putamen
(encz) | putamen,pecka n: Zdeněk Brož |
stamen
(encz) | stamen,tyčinka n: [bot.] část květu Zdeněk Brož; Jirka Daněk |
stamens
(encz) | stamens,tyčinky n: pl. [bot.] část květu Jirka Daněk |
tameable
(encz) | tameable, |
tamed
(encz) | tamed,zkrocený adj: PetrV |
tamely
(encz) | tamely,krotce adv: Zdeněk Brož |
tameness
(encz) | tameness,krotkost n: Zdeněk Brož |
tamer
(encz) | tamer,krotitel n: Zdeněk Brož |
tamerlane
(encz) | Tamerlane, |
tamest
(encz) | tamest,nejkrotčí adj: Zdeněk Brož |
testament
(encz) | testament,poslední vůle n: testament,závěť n: |
testamentary
(encz) | testamentary,testamentární adj: Zdeněk Brožtestamentary,závěťní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
testamentary trust
(encz) | testamentary trust, n: |
testaments
(encz) | testaments,závěti n: Zdeněk Brož |
untamed
(encz) | untamed,nezkrocený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
katamenie
(czen) | katamenie,catamenian: Zdeněk Brož |
metamerní
(czen) | metamerní,metameric Zdeněk Brož |
pentametr
(czen) | pentametr,pentametern: Zdeněk Brož |
testamentární
(czen) | testamentární,testamentaryadj: Zdeněk Brož |
Additament
(gcide) | Additament \Ad*dit"a*ment\ ([a^]d*d[i^]t"[.a]*ment), n. [L.
additamentum, fr. additus, p. p. of addere to add.]
An addition, or a thing added. --Fuller.
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My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter
were an additament of a later age. --Coleridge.
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aspartame
(gcide) | aspartame \aspartame\ n.
1. an artificial sweetener containing an aspartic acid
peptide, (C14H18N2O5); it is 160 times sweeter than
sucrose (cane sugar) and is used as a calorie-free
sweetener. Chemically it is
N-L-[alpha]-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester. It is
sold also under the trade name Equal.
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Attame
(gcide) | Attame \At*tame"\, v. t. [OF. atamer, from Latin. See
Attaminate.]
1. To pierce; to attack. [Obs.]
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2. To broach; to begin.
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And right anon his tale he hath attamed. --Chaucer.
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Bustamente furnace
(gcide) | Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F.
fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to
E. forceps.]
1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting
metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as,
an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a
boiler furnace, etc.
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Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when
the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast
furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection
artificially of a forcible current of air; and as
reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to
the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon
the materials operated upon.
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2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial;
severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20.
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Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting
quicksilver ores.
Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
Furnace cadmiam or Furnace cadmia, the oxide of zinc
which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting
zinciferous ores. --Raymond.
Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal,
etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.
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Catamenia
(gcide) | Catamenia \Cat`a*me"nia\ (k[a^]t`[.a]*m[=e]"n[i^]*[.a]), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ta` katamh`nia.] (Med.)
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
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Catamenial
(gcide) | Catamenial \Cat`a*me"ni*al\ (k[a^]t`[.a]*m[=e]"n[i^]*al), a.
[Gr. katamh`nios monthly; kata` down, back, again + mh`n
month.]
Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
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Derogatory clause in a testament
(gcide) | derogatory \de*rog"a*to*ry\, a.
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low
opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; --
with from, to, or unto.
Syn: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory,
derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting,
pejorative, denigratory.
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Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of
subsequent Parliaments bind not. --Blackstone.
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His language was severely censured by some of his
brother peers as derogatory to their other.
--Macaulay.
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Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of
secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which
he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition
that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless
this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to
guard against later wills extorted by violence, or
obtained by suggestion.
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Dictamen
(gcide) | Dictamen \Dic*ta"men\, n. [LL., fr. dictare to dictate.]
A dictation or dictate. [R.] --Falkland.
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Entame
(gcide) | Entame \En*tame"\, v. t.
To tame. [Obs.] --Shak.
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eta-mesons
(gcide) | Meson \Mes"on\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`son middle, neut. of me`sos,
a., middle.]
1. (Anat.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal
into similar right and left halves. The line in which it
meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson,
and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. --B.
G. Wilder.
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2. (Physics) An elementary particle made up of two quarks; a
hadron having a baryon number of zero; any hadron other
than a baryon. Mesons are bosons with integral values of
spin, having a mass intermediate between those of the
electron and a nucleon; they may have positive or negative
charges, or may be neutral. Mesons are of three types: the
pion ([pi]-meson), kaon (K-mesons), and
[eta]-mesons.
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mu meson (Physics) the former name for the muon, a
particle which is not a true meson[2]. The term is no
longer used in technical literature, except historically.
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heptamer
(gcide) | oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.)
A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer
units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have
less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than
thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer,
trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer,
octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial
laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as
nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc.,
especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.
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Heptamerous
(gcide) | Heptamerous \Hep*tam"er*ous\, a. [Hepta- + Gr. ? part.] (Bot.)
Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of
sevens. --Gray.
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Hereditament
(gcide) | Hereditament \Her`e*dit"a*ment\, n. [LL. hereditamentum. See
Hereditable.] (Law)
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands,
tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal,
or mixed, that may descend to an heir. --Blackstone.
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Note: A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an
incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or
tangible, being an hereditary right, interest, or
obligation, as duty to pay rent, or a right of way.
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Holographic testament
(gcide) | Testament \Tes"ta*ment\, n. [F., fr. L. testamentum, fr. testari
to be a witness, to make one's last will, akin to testis a
witness. Cf. Intestate, Testify.]
1. (Law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which
a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate
and effects after his death.
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Note: This is otherwise called a will, and sometimes a last
will and testament. A testament, to be valid, must be
made by a person of sound mind; and it must be executed
and published in due form of law. A man, in certain
cases, may make a valid will by word of mouth only. See
Nuncupative will, under Nuncupative.
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2. One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes
toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general
divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures,
in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the
Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in
colloquial language, to the latter.
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He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for
the redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first testament. --Heb. ix. 15.
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Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the
testator himself. --Bouvier.
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Included stamens
(gcide) | Included \In*clud"ed\, a.
Inclosed; confined.
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Included stamens (Bot.), such as are shorter than the
floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
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Incorporeal hereditament
(gcide) | Incorporeal \In`cor*po"re*al\, a. [Pref. in- not + corporeal:
cf. L. incorporeus. Cf. Incorporal.]
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1. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not
consisting of matter; immaterial.
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Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms
Reduced their shapes immense. --Milton.
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Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from
some incorporeal substance within us. --Bentley.
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2. (Law) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable
of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an
object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.
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Incorporeal hereditament. See under Hereditament.
Syn: Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.
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Interpretament
(gcide) | Interpretament \In*ter"pre*ta*ment\, n. [L. interpretamentum.]
Interpretation. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Lentamente
(gcide) | Lentamente \Len`ta*men"te\ (l[asl]n`t[.a]*m[asl]n"t[asl]; E.
l[e^]n`t[.a]*m[e^]n"t[-e]), adv. [It.] (Mus.)
Slowly; in slow time.
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Letters testamentary
(gcide) | Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L.
littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing,
literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub
over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by
graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered
with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See Liniment, and cf.
Literal.]
1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound,
or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a
first element of written language.
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And a superscription also was written over him in
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke
xxiii. 38.
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2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in
intelligible characters on something adapted to
conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
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The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and
natural. --Walsh.
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3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.]
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None could expound what this letter meant.
--Chaucer.
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4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact
signification or requirement.
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We must observe the letter of the law, without doing
violence to the reason of the law and the intention
of the lawgiver. --Jer. Taylor.
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I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.
--Tennyson.
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5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of
type.
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Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing
house, and that famous letter so much esteemed.
--Evelyn.
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6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
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7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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8. (Teleg.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent
at rates lower than the standard message rate in
consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to
priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams
are called by the Western Union Company day letters, or
night letters according to the time of sending, and by
The Postal Telegraph Company day lettergrams, or {night
lettergrams}.
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Dead letter, Drop letter, etc. See under Dead, Drop,
etc.
Letter book, a book in which copies of letters are kept.
Letter box, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed
or delivered.
Letter carrier, a person who carries letters; a postman;
specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters
to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects
letters to be mailed.
Letter cutter, one who engraves letters or letter punches.
Letter lock, a lock that can not be opened when fastened,
unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a
part of it are in such a position (indicated by a
particular combination of the letters) as to permit the
bolt to be withdrawn.
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A strange lock that opens with AMEN. --Beau. & Fl.
Letter paper, paper for writing letters on; especially, a
size of paper intermediate between note paper and
foolscap. See Paper.
Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the
end, used in making the matrices for type.
Letters of administration (Law), the instrument by which an
administrator or administratrix is authorized to
administer the goods and estate of a deceased person.
Letter of attorney, Letter of credit, etc. See under
Attorney, Credit, etc.
Letter of license, a paper by which creditors extend a
debtor's time for paying his debts.
Letters close or Letters clause (Eng. Law.), letters or
writs directed to particular persons for particular
purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; --
distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill.
Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and
sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has
regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon,
etc.
Letters patent, Letters overt, or Letters open (Eng.
Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and
authority are granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy
some right; as, letters patent under the seal of England.
The common commercial patent is a derivative form of
such a right.
Letter-sheet envelope, a stamped sheet of letter paper
issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed
for transmission by mail without an envelope.
Letters testamentary (Law), an instrument granted by the
proper officer to an executor after probate of a will,
authorizing him to act as executor.
Letter writer.
(a) One who writes letters.
(b) A machine for copying letters.
(c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of
letters.
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Metamer
(gcide) | Metamer \Met"a*mer\, n. [See Metamere.] (Chem.)
Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or
of different substances having the same composition; as,
xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and
paraxylene; an isomer.
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Metamere
(gcide) | Metamere \Met"a*mere\, n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and
plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one
another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an
earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of {Loeven's
larva}.
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Metameres
(gcide) | Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual.
See Tectology. --Haeckel.
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Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs,
homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite
or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres
(successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personae
(shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or
colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
been recently substituted. See Idorgan.
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metameric
(gcide) | isomeric \i`so*mer"ic\ ([imac]`s[-o]*m[e^]r"[i^]k), a. [Iso- +
Gr. me`ros part: cf. F. isom['e]rique.] (Chem.)
Having the same chemical composition and molecular weight;
having the same number of atoms of each kind in the molecule;
-- said of chemical compounds with known chemical
composition. This property used to be called metameric to
distinguish it from other forms of isomerism.
[PJC]
Note: Formerly the term isomeric applied also to comopounds
having the same percentage chemical composition, even
if the number of atoms in a molecule differed. In the
1913 dictionary isomeric was defined as:
"Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two
or more different substances which contain the same
ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often
used with with. Specif.:
(a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the
same proportion by weight, but with different molecular
weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric
(polymeric) with each other in this sense. See
Polymeric.
(b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the
same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular
weight, but with a different structure or arrangement of
the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether
are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense.
See Metameric."
[1913 Webster]Metameric \Met`a*mer"ic\, a. [Pref. meta- + Gr. ? part.]
1. (Chem.) Having the same molecular formula, but possessing
a different bonding structure and different properties;
as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric
compounds. See Isomeric.
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Note: The existence of metameric compounds is due to
different arrangements of the same atoms in the
molecule.
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2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation;
as, metameric segmentation.
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Metameric
(gcide) | isomeric \i`so*mer"ic\ ([imac]`s[-o]*m[e^]r"[i^]k), a. [Iso- +
Gr. me`ros part: cf. F. isom['e]rique.] (Chem.)
Having the same chemical composition and molecular weight;
having the same number of atoms of each kind in the molecule;
-- said of chemical compounds with known chemical
composition. This property used to be called metameric to
distinguish it from other forms of isomerism.
[PJC]
Note: Formerly the term isomeric applied also to comopounds
having the same percentage chemical composition, even
if the number of atoms in a molecule differed. In the
1913 dictionary isomeric was defined as:
"Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two
or more different substances which contain the same
ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often
used with with. Specif.:
(a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the
same proportion by weight, but with different molecular
weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric
(polymeric) with each other in this sense. See
Polymeric.
(b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the
same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular
weight, but with a different structure or arrangement of
the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether
are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense.
See Metameric."
[1913 Webster]Metameric \Met`a*mer"ic\, a. [Pref. meta- + Gr. ? part.]
1. (Chem.) Having the same molecular formula, but possessing
a different bonding structure and different properties;
as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric
compounds. See Isomeric.
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Note: The existence of metameric compounds is due to
different arrangements of the same atoms in the
molecule.
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2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation;
as, metameric segmentation.
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Metamerically
(gcide) | Metamerically \Met`a*mer"ic*al*ly\, adv.
In a metameric manner.
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Metamerism
(gcide) | Metamerism \Me*tam"er*ism\, n.
1. (Biol.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial
symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
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2. (Chem.) The state or quality of being metameric; isomerism
due to different bonding patterns in two substances having
the same molecular formula. Contrasted with
steroisomerism or optical isomerism. Also, the
relation or condition of metameric compounds.
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New testament
(gcide) | New \New\ (n[=u]), a. [Compar. Newer (n[=u]"[~e]r); superl.
Newest.] [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw,
OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ny,
Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh,
Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. ne`os,
Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. [root]263. See Now, and cf.
Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel.]
1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time;
having originated or occured lately; having recently come
into existence, or into one's possession; not early or
long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; --
opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book;
a new fashion. "Your new wife." --Chaucer.
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2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately
manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new
planet; new scenes.
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3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now
commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year;
a new course or direction.
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4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of
original freshness; also, changed for the better;
renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel
made him a new man.
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Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
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Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost
new. --Bacon.
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5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient
descent; not previously known or famous. --Addison.
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6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
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New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope.
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7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
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New from her sickness to that northern air.
--Dryden.
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New birth. See under Birth.
New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding
the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See
Swedenborgian.
New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the
power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy
motives.
New land, land cleared and cultivated for the first time.
New light. (Zool.) See Crappie.
New moon.
(a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first
appears after being invisible.
(b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day
of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the
Jews. --2 Kings iv. 23.
New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation
immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided
into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone.
New style. See Style.
New testament. See under Testament.
New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called
because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern
Hemisphere until recent times.
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Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
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Nuncupative testament
(gcide) | Nuncupative \Nun*cu"pa*tive\, a. [L. nuncupativus nominal: cf.
F. nuncupatif.]
1. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. [Obs.]
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2. Nominal; existing only in name. [Obs.]
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3. Oral; not written.
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Nuncupative will or Nuncupative testament, a will or
testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as
by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony
for proof. --Blackstone.
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octamer
(gcide) | oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.)
A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer
units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have
less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than
thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer,
trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer,
octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial
laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as
nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc.,
especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.
[PJC]octamer \oc"ta*mer\ ([o^]k"t[u^]*m[~e]r), n. [Octa- + Gr. me`ros
part.] (Chem.)
A molecule composed of eight monomer units bound to each
other, usually in a linear array; as, an octamer formed from
eight nucleotides is called an octanucleotide.
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Note: An example of an octapeptide might be represented using
the standard abbreviations for the component amino
acids, e.g.: met-ala-ser-glu-lys-ala-val-gly
An octanucleotide might be represented using the
standard single-letter abbreviations for the component
mononucleotides, e.g.: ATGCATGC.
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octamerous
(gcide) | octamerous \oc*tam"er*ous\ (ocr/k*t[a^]m"[~e]r*[u^]s), a. [Octa-
+ Gr. me`ros part.] (Biol.)
Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower;
octamerous mesenteries in polyps.
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Octameter
(gcide) | Octameter \Oc*tam"e*ter\, n. [Cf.L. octameter in eight feet. See
Octa-, and meter.] (Pros.)
A verse containing eight feet; as,
Deep[bprime] in|to[bprime] the | dark[bprime]ness |
peer[bprime]ing, | long[bprime] I | stood[bprime] there
| wond'[bprime]ring, | fear[bprime]ing. --Poe.
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Old Testament
(gcide) | Old \Old\, a. [Compar. Older; superl. Oldest.] [OE. old,
ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald,
old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up,
Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish.
Cf. Adult, Alderman, Aliment, Auld, Elder.]
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1. Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived
till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an
old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
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Let not old age disgrace my high desire. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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The melancholy news that we grow old. --Young.
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2. Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having
existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
"An old acquaintance." --Camden.
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3. Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding;
original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
"The old schools of Greece." --Milton. "The character of
the old Ligurians." --Addison.
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4. Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence;
having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the
age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a
cathedral centuries old.
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And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
--Cen. xlvii.
8.
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Note: In this use old regularly follows the noun that
designates the age; as, she was eight years old.
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5. Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as,
an old offender; old in vice.
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Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.
--Milton.
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6. Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to
new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
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7. Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness;
as, old shoes; old clothes.
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8. More than enough; abundant. [Obs.]
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If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have
old turning the key. --Shak.
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9. Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or
other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly
as a term of reproach.
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10. Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good
old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
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11. Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and
familiarity. "Go thy ways, old lad." --Shak.
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Old age, advanced years; the latter period of life.
Old bachelor. See Bachelor, 1.
Old Catholics. See under Catholic.
Old English. See under English. n., 2.
Old Nick, Old Scratch, the devil.
Old lady (Zool.), a large European noctuid moth ({Mormo
maura}).
Old maid.
(a) A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never
been married; a spinster.
(b) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink-flowered
periwinkle (Vinca rosea).
(c) A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The
person with whom the odd card is left is the old
maid.
Old man's beard. (Bot.)
(a) The traveler's joy (Clematis Vitalba). So named
from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit.
(b) The Tillandsia usneoides. See Tillandsia.
Old man's head (Bot.), a columnar cactus ({Pilocereus
senilis}), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with
long white hairs.
Old red sandstone (Geol.), a series of red sandstone rocks
situated below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and
comprising various strata of siliceous sandstones and
conglomerates. See Sandstone, and the Chart of
Geology.
Old school, a school or party belonging to a former time,
or preserving the character, manner, or opinions of a
former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -- used
also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians.
Old sledge, an old and well-known game of cards, called
also all fours, and high, low, Jack, and the game.
Old squaw (Zool.), a duck (Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting
the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is
varied with black and white and is remarkable for the
length of its tail. Called also longtailed duck, {south
southerly}, callow, hareld, and old wife.
Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style.
Old Testament. See Old Testament under Testament, and
see tanak.
Old wife. [In the senses
b and
c written also oldwife.]
(a) A prating old woman; a gossip.
Refuse profane and old wives' fables. --1 Tim.
iv. 7.
(b) (Zool.) The local name of various fishes, as the
European black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus), the
American alewife, etc.
(c) (Zool.) A duck; the old squaw.
Old World, the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Syn: Aged; ancient; pristine; primitive; antique; antiquated;
old-fashioned; obsolete. See Ancient.
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pentamer
(gcide) | oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.)
A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer
units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have
less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than
thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer,
trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer,
octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial
laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as
nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc.,
especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.
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Pentamera
(gcide) | Pentamera \Pen*tam"e*ra\, n. pl. [NL. See Pentamerous.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that
normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of
all the known species of the Coleoptera.
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Pentameran
(gcide) | Pentameran \Pen*tam"er*an\, n. (Zool.)
One of the Pentamera.
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Pentamerous
(gcide) | Pentamerous \Pen*tam"er*ous\, a. [Penta- + Gr. ? part.]
1. (Biol.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also,
arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower
with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five,
stamens, and five pistils.
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2. (Zool.) Belonging to the Pentamera.
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Pentamerus
(gcide) | Pentamerus \Pen*tam"e*rus\, n. [NL. See Pentamerous.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant
in the Upper Silurian.
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Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed
largely of the shells of Pentamerus.
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Pentamerus limestone
(gcide) | Pentamerus \Pen*tam"e*rus\, n. [NL. See Pentamerous.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant
in the Upper Silurian.
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Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed
largely of the shells of Pentamerus.
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