n.
Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. →
n.
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. →
v. t.
To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. →
n.
Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. →
n.
An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal. →
a.
Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. →
n.
One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet. →