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Adulterate :: Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..

Piratical :: Piratical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking..

Overpress :: Overpress (v. t.) To overcome by importunity.

Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.

Pyrogallol :: Pyrogallol (n.) A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes..

Strident :: Stride (n.) The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball..

Ulnage :: Ulnage (n.) Measurement by the ell; alnage.

Bemire :: Bemire (v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt..

Undispensable :: Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by dispensation.

Compose :: Compose (v. t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture..

Lye :: Lye (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc..

Indivisible :: Indivisible (a.) Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable..

A Posteriori :: A posteriori () Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning..

Mammothrept :: Mammothrept (n.) A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.

Ram :: Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram..

Erg :: Erg (n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs..

Rebiting :: Rebiting (n.) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.

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