Definitions
inductive: (adj) 1. Leading on (to some action, etc.); inducing.
2. Productive of, giving rise to.
3. Caused by induction; of induced nature or origin.
4. In Logic: Of the nature of, based upon, or characterized by the use of induction, or reasoning from particular facts to general principles.
5. Of persons: Using the method of induction.
6. In Ethics: a school of reasoning by which right and wrong as well as truth and falsehood are questions of observation and experience.
7. Of the nature of, pertaining to, or due to electric or magnetic induction.
8. Possessing inductance.
9. Introductory.
10. In Embryology: Of, pertaining to, or producing induction.
inductance: (n) 1. That property of a circuit or device by virtue of which any variation in the current flowing through it induces an e.m.f. in the circuit itself (self-inductance) or in another conductor (mutual inductance): without qualification usu. the former. Also, the magnitude of this, as measured by the ratio of an induced e.m.f. to the rate of change of the inducing current.
2. A device (commonly a coil) possessing inductance or used on account of its inductance.
chamois: (n) 1. A capriform antelope (A. rupicapra or Rupicapra tragus), the only representative of the antelopes found wild in Europe; it inhabits the loftiest parts of the Alps, Pyrenees, Taurus, and other mountain ranges of Europe and Asia.
2. Originally, a leather, prepared from the skin of the chamois; now applied to a soft, pliable leather prepared from the skins of sheep, goats, deer, calves, and the split hides of other animals.
3. The colour of chamois leather; hence chamois-coloured. Also as adj., of the colour of this leather, yellowish brown or fawn-coloured.
capriform: (adj) goat-shaped.
calamary: (n) The general name for Cephalopods or Cuttle-fish of the family Teuthidæ, more especially of the genus Loligo, cuttle-fishes having a long narrow body flanked by two triangular fins, and with the internal shell ‘a horny flexible pen’: e.g. the Common Calamary, Squid, or Pen-fish.
sigmoid: (adj) 1. Having the shape of the uncial sigma C; crescent-shaped, semicircular.
2. Having a double curve like the letter S.
uncial: (adj) 1. Pertaining to, connected with, etc., an inch or an ounce.
2. Based on a duodecimal division; divided into twelve equal parts.
3. In Letters and Writing: Having the large rounded forms (not joined to each other) characteristic of early Greek and Latin manuscripts; also (in looser use), of large size, capital. Having the large rounded forms (not joined to each other) characteristic of early Greek and Latin manuscripts; also (in looser use), of large size, capital.
4. Written, cut, etc., in uncial characters.
5. Characterized by the use of large letters.
(n) 6. An uncial or capital letter.
7. An uncial style of writing.
8. A manuscript written in uncial characters.
sulcus: (n) 1. A groove made with an engraving tool.
2. A trench.
3. A hollow or depression in the land.
4. In Anatomy: A groove or furrow in a body, organ, or tissue, specifically a fissure between two convolutions of the brain.
5. In Botany: The lamella in some fungi.
lamella: (n) A thin plate, scale, layer, or film, esp. of bone or tissue; e.g. one of the thin scales or plates which compose some shells, one of the gills forming the hymenium of a mushroom, one of the erect scales appended to the corollas of some flowers.
tare: (n) 1. The seed of a vetch: usually in reference to its small size. (Probably familiar in early times, as too frequently present in seed-corn.)
2. Taken as a type of a very small particle; a whit, a jot, an atom.
3. A name given to some species of vetch: in early times, especially to those occurring as weeds in corn-fields.
4. Now, in general agricultural use, applied to the cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa, grown (often with oats, etc.) as fodder. In a collective sense, or as name of a crop, used in plural form.
5. Used as a name of an injurious weed among corn in early translations of the New Testament, hence used figuratively.
vetch: (n) 1. The bean-like fruit of various species of the leguminous plant Vicia.
2. Plants belonging to the genus Vicia, especially to the species Vicia sativa, the common tare.
3. In generic use as a plant-name (or, in early use, as that of a grain), usually without article or with the
4. Applied, with distinguishing terms, to plants of various genera more or less resembling vetches.
serried: (adj) 1. Of files or ranks of armed men: Pressed close together, shoulder to shoulder, in close order.
2. Of things likened to ranks of soldiers.
3. Of argument, etc.: Closely reasoned, compact in expression.
cyclopean: (adj) 1. Belonging to or resembling the Cyclopes; monstrous, gigantic, huge; single, or large and round, like the one eye of a Cyclops.
2. Applied to an ancient style of masonry in which the stones are of immense size and more or less irregular shape; found in Greece, Italy, and elsewhere, and anciently fabled to be the work of a gigantic Thracian race called Cyclopes from their king Cyclops. Now applied also to similar ancient work in other regions.
brougham: (n) A one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, for two or four persons.
fusty: (adj) 1. That has lost its freshness, stale-smelling, musty.
2. Of a wine-cask or vessel. Also of the wine: Tasting of the cask.
3. Of bread, corn, meat, etc.: Smelling of mould or damp.
4. Of persons, places, etc.: Having an unpleasant, ‘close’, or ‘stuffy’ smell such as arises from dirt, dust, or damp.
5. That has lost its freshness and interest; bearing marks of age or neglect; of old-fashioned appearance or behaviour, ‘fogeyish’.
6. Ill-humoured, peevish, dull.
7. Used as a noun: A ‘seedy’ person.
cluricaune: (adj) In Irish mythology, an elf having the appearance of a tiny old man; leprechaun-ish.
khyber: (n) Ass. Rhyming slang for 'Khyber Pass'.
rukh: (n) In India: a forest; a forest reserve.
cerement: (n) 1. Almost always in pl.: Waxed wrappings for the dead; loosely, grave-clothes generally. Rarely in sing. = cerecloth; winding-sheet, shroud. (App. caught up by modern writers from Shakespeare, and used in the same loose rhetorical way as urn, ashes, etc.). Also used figuratively.
2. The action of ‘cering’ a dead body or its covering; the wax used.
3. Waxy coating generally.
cerecloth: (n) 1. Cloth smeared or impregnated with wax or some glutinous matter.
2. used for wrapping a dead body in; a waxed winding-sheet or a winding-sheet in general.
3. used as a plaster in surgery; a cerate.
4. for various other uses, esp. as a waterproof or protective material.
cerate: (n) A kind of stiff ointment composed of wax together with lard or oil and other ingredients.
phenomenology: (n) 1. In Philosophy: The metaphysical study or theory of phenomena in general (as distinct from that of being).
2. The division of any science which is concerned with the description and classification of its phenomena, rather than causal or theoretical explanation.
3. A method or procedure, originally developed by the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), which involves the setting aside of presuppositions about a phenomenon as an empirical object and about the mental acts concerned with experiencing it, in order to achieve an intuition of its pure essence; the characteristic theories underlying or resulting from the use of such a method. In more recent use: any of various philosophical methods or theories (often influenced by the work of Husserl and his followers) which emphasize the importance of analysing the structure of conscious subjective experience.
4. The outward characteristics or phenomena of a given process or act, considered collectively.
5. In Psychology: The methods of description and analysis developed from philosophical phenomenology applied to the subjective experience of phenomena and to consciousness, esp. in the fields of Gestalt psychology, existential analysis, and psychiatry.
2. Productive of, giving rise to.
3. Caused by induction; of induced nature or origin.
4. In Logic: Of the nature of, based upon, or characterized by the use of induction, or reasoning from particular facts to general principles.
5. Of persons: Using the method of induction.
6. In Ethics: a school of reasoning by which right and wrong as well as truth and falsehood are questions of observation and experience.
7. Of the nature of, pertaining to, or due to electric or magnetic induction.
8. Possessing inductance.
9. Introductory.
10. In Embryology: Of, pertaining to, or producing induction.
inductance: (n) 1. That property of a circuit or device by virtue of which any variation in the current flowing through it induces an e.m.f. in the circuit itself (self-inductance) or in another conductor (mutual inductance): without qualification usu. the former. Also, the magnitude of this, as measured by the ratio of an induced e.m.f. to the rate of change of the inducing current.
2. A device (commonly a coil) possessing inductance or used on account of its inductance.
chamois: (n) 1. A capriform antelope (A. rupicapra or Rupicapra tragus), the only representative of the antelopes found wild in Europe; it inhabits the loftiest parts of the Alps, Pyrenees, Taurus, and other mountain ranges of Europe and Asia.
2. Originally, a leather, prepared from the skin of the chamois; now applied to a soft, pliable leather prepared from the skins of sheep, goats, deer, calves, and the split hides of other animals.
3. The colour of chamois leather; hence chamois-coloured. Also as adj., of the colour of this leather, yellowish brown or fawn-coloured.
capriform: (adj) goat-shaped.
calamary: (n) The general name for Cephalopods or Cuttle-fish of the family Teuthidæ, more especially of the genus Loligo, cuttle-fishes having a long narrow body flanked by two triangular fins, and with the internal shell ‘a horny flexible pen’: e.g. the Common Calamary, Squid, or Pen-fish.
sigmoid: (adj) 1. Having the shape of the uncial sigma C; crescent-shaped, semicircular.
2. Having a double curve like the letter S.
uncial: (adj) 1. Pertaining to, connected with, etc., an inch or an ounce.
2. Based on a duodecimal division; divided into twelve equal parts.
3. In Letters and Writing: Having the large rounded forms (not joined to each other) characteristic of early Greek and Latin manuscripts; also (in looser use), of large size, capital. Having the large rounded forms (not joined to each other) characteristic of early Greek and Latin manuscripts; also (in looser use), of large size, capital.
4. Written, cut, etc., in uncial characters.
5. Characterized by the use of large letters.
(n) 6. An uncial or capital letter.
7. An uncial style of writing.
8. A manuscript written in uncial characters.
sulcus: (n) 1. A groove made with an engraving tool.
2. A trench.
3. A hollow or depression in the land.
4. In Anatomy: A groove or furrow in a body, organ, or tissue, specifically a fissure between two convolutions of the brain.
5. In Botany: The lamella in some fungi.
lamella: (n) A thin plate, scale, layer, or film, esp. of bone or tissue; e.g. one of the thin scales or plates which compose some shells, one of the gills forming the hymenium of a mushroom, one of the erect scales appended to the corollas of some flowers.
tare: (n) 1. The seed of a vetch: usually in reference to its small size. (Probably familiar in early times, as too frequently present in seed-corn.)
2. Taken as a type of a very small particle; a whit, a jot, an atom.
3. A name given to some species of vetch: in early times, especially to those occurring as weeds in corn-fields.
4. Now, in general agricultural use, applied to the cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa, grown (often with oats, etc.) as fodder. In a collective sense, or as name of a crop, used in plural form.
5. Used as a name of an injurious weed among corn in early translations of the New Testament, hence used figuratively.
vetch: (n) 1. The bean-like fruit of various species of the leguminous plant Vicia.
2. Plants belonging to the genus Vicia, especially to the species Vicia sativa, the common tare.
3. In generic use as a plant-name (or, in early use, as that of a grain), usually without article or with the
4. Applied, with distinguishing terms, to plants of various genera more or less resembling vetches.
serried: (adj) 1. Of files or ranks of armed men: Pressed close together, shoulder to shoulder, in close order.
2. Of things likened to ranks of soldiers.
3. Of argument, etc.: Closely reasoned, compact in expression.
cyclopean: (adj) 1. Belonging to or resembling the Cyclopes; monstrous, gigantic, huge; single, or large and round, like the one eye of a Cyclops.
2. Applied to an ancient style of masonry in which the stones are of immense size and more or less irregular shape; found in Greece, Italy, and elsewhere, and anciently fabled to be the work of a gigantic Thracian race called Cyclopes from their king Cyclops. Now applied also to similar ancient work in other regions.
brougham: (n) A one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, for two or four persons.
fusty: (adj) 1. That has lost its freshness, stale-smelling, musty.
2. Of a wine-cask or vessel. Also of the wine: Tasting of the cask.
3. Of bread, corn, meat, etc.: Smelling of mould or damp.
4. Of persons, places, etc.: Having an unpleasant, ‘close’, or ‘stuffy’ smell such as arises from dirt, dust, or damp.
5. That has lost its freshness and interest; bearing marks of age or neglect; of old-fashioned appearance or behaviour, ‘fogeyish’.
6. Ill-humoured, peevish, dull.
7. Used as a noun: A ‘seedy’ person.
cluricaune: (adj) In Irish mythology, an elf having the appearance of a tiny old man; leprechaun-ish.
khyber: (n) Ass. Rhyming slang for 'Khyber Pass'.
rukh: (n) In India: a forest; a forest reserve.
cerement: (n) 1. Almost always in pl.: Waxed wrappings for the dead; loosely, grave-clothes generally. Rarely in sing. = cerecloth; winding-sheet, shroud. (App. caught up by modern writers from Shakespeare, and used in the same loose rhetorical way as urn, ashes, etc.). Also used figuratively.
2. The action of ‘cering’ a dead body or its covering; the wax used.
3. Waxy coating generally.
cerecloth: (n) 1. Cloth smeared or impregnated with wax or some glutinous matter.
2. used for wrapping a dead body in; a waxed winding-sheet or a winding-sheet in general.
3. used as a plaster in surgery; a cerate.
4. for various other uses, esp. as a waterproof or protective material.
cerate: (n) A kind of stiff ointment composed of wax together with lard or oil and other ingredients.
phenomenology: (n) 1. In Philosophy: The metaphysical study or theory of phenomena in general (as distinct from that of being).
2. The division of any science which is concerned with the description and classification of its phenomena, rather than causal or theoretical explanation.
3. A method or procedure, originally developed by the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), which involves the setting aside of presuppositions about a phenomenon as an empirical object and about the mental acts concerned with experiencing it, in order to achieve an intuition of its pure essence; the characteristic theories underlying or resulting from the use of such a method. In more recent use: any of various philosophical methods or theories (often influenced by the work of Husserl and his followers) which emphasize the importance of analysing the structure of conscious subjective experience.
4. The outward characteristics or phenomena of a given process or act, considered collectively.
5. In Psychology: The methods of description and analysis developed from philosophical phenomenology applied to the subjective experience of phenomena and to consciousness, esp. in the fields of Gestalt psychology, existential analysis, and psychiatry.