Paddle

v. i.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Glomerate

a.

Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

Roily

a.

Turbid; as, roily water.

Gunflint

n.

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

Humin

n.

A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

Uranite

n.

A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.

Rampler

n.

A rambler.

Rub

n.

Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.

Function

n.

A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.

Jellying

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Jelly

After-note

n.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

Latria

n.

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

Hoot

n.

The cry of an owl.