Hexahedrons
pl.
of Hexahedron →
Hemipode
n.
Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia. →
Faluns
n.
A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision. →
Water sprite
A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. →
Geolatry
n.
The worship of the earth. →
Sacker
n.
One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town. →
Unsatiability
n.
Quality of being unsatiable; insatiability. →
Lawsonia
n.
An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette. →
Refracture
v. t.
To break again, as a bone. →
Accident
n.
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. →
Undergo
v. t.
To be subject or amenable to; to underlie. →
Restrainer
n.
One who, or that which, restrains. →