n.
The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.
Next Wordn.
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. →
v.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. →
n.
A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche. →