Gustatory

a.

Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

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Flete

v. i.

To float; to swim.

Fraudful

a.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.

Xeronic

a.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.

Scissiparity

n.

Reproduction by fission.

Gramineal

a.

Gramineous.

Geck

n.

To deride; to scorn; to mock.

Lethargized

imp. & p. p.

of Lethargize

Reciprocal

n.

That which is reciprocal to another thing.

Absolute

a.

Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

Sea mud

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

Resolve

v. i.

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.

Flyboat

n.

A large Dutch coasting vessel.