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Motorial :: Motorial (n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion..

Pan :: Pan (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing..

Sundown :: Sundown (n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.

Besetting :: Besetting (a.) Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin..

Inserting :: Inserting (n.) A setting in.

Incendiarism :: Incendiarism (n.) The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Backstitch :: Backstitch (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end..

Hypostatical :: Hypostatical (a.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation..

Landing :: Landing (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore..

Hobbyhorse :: Hobbyhorse (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion..

Setting :: Setting (n.) Something set in, or inserted..

Acronycally :: Acronycally (adv.) In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa..

Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..

Valuation :: Valuation (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation..

Entry :: Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them..

Montrue :: Montrue (n.) That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse..

Cosmical :: Cosmical (a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

Oversetting :: Oversetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overse.

Close-bodied :: Close-bodied (a.) Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment..

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