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Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.
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Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar. →
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In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. →
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In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmi... →
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Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak. →