Sabbat

n.

In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

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Gurgle

n.

The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."

Sclerenchyma

n.

The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.

Laburnine

n.

A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.

Accipitres

n. pl.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

Affect

v. t.

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

Verst

n.

A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.

Fissipation

n.

Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

Juge

n.

A judge.

Scriptoria

pl.

of Scriptorium

Latterkin

n.

A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

Fifteenth

n.

A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Revolution

n.

The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.