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Tracking Association of North Alabama
Tiddim Road Athletic Union
Polski KATOWICE OPEN
The Tiling Association
Fourth Association of Model Auto Racing
Control Information Tree
Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank
Limestone Community High School
Just Wondering
Souslins Axiom
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A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.
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Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
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The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.
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Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.
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A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
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One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
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A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
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A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
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A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.
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A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
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Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23ยก 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
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A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
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See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
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