Definitions
tertianship: (n) in the Society of Jesus, a member of the order who is passing through the last of the three stages of probation, which prepares him for admission to the final vows.
ort: (n) A fragment of food left over from a meal; fodder left by cattle; a refuse scrap; leavings. Usu. in pl. Also fig.: a fragment, esp. of wisdom, wit, knowledge, etc.
husting: (n) 1. An assembly for deliberative purposes, esp. one summoned by a king or other leader; a council.
2. A court held in the Guildhall of London by the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs (or Aldermen), long the supreme court of the city.
3. The upper end of the Guildhall, where this Court was held; the platform on which the Mayor and Aldermen took their seats.
4. The temporary platform from which, previous to the Ballot Act of 1872, the nomination of candidates for Parliament was made, and on which these stood while addressing the electors. Hence, contextually, the proceedings at a parliamentary election.
encomium: (n) A formal or high-flown expression of praise; a eulogy, panegyric.
archon: (n) 1. The chief magistrate, and, after the time of Solon, one of the nine chief magistrates of the Athenian republic.
2. A ruler or president generally.
3. A power subordinate to the Deity, held by some of the Gnostics to have made the world.
photovoltaic: (adj) Relating to, involving, or utilizing the generation of a voltage at the junction of two substances exposed to light.
endocarditis: (n) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart.
azimuth: (n) 1. An arc of the heavens extending from the zenith to the horizon which it cuts at right angles; the quadrant of a great circle of the sphere passing through the zenith and nadir, called an azimuth-circle.
2. The angular distance of any such circle from a given limit, e.g. a meridian. Hence, the true azimuth of a heavenly body is, the arc of the horizon intercepted between the north (or, in the Southern hemisphere, south) point of the horizon and the point where the great circle passing through the observed heavenly body cuts the horizon. Its magnetic azimuth is the arc intercepted between the magnetic meridian and this great circle.
3. in azimuth: in a horizontal circular direction.
4. Horizontal angle, or direction; point of the compass.
yeshiva: (n) An Orthodox Jewish college or seminary; a Talmudic academy.
soutane: (n) 1. A long buttoned gown or frock, with sleeves, forming the ordinary outer garment of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, and worn under the vestments in religious services; a cassock.
2. A wearer of the soutane; a priest.
mephitic: (adj) Esp. of a gas or vapour: offensive to the smell, foul-smelling; noxious, poisonous, pestilential. Mephitic acid/gas/air: usually refers to carbonic acid or carbon dioxide.
pyrazine: (n) A weakly basic white crystalline solid ; any substituted derivative of this.
anodyne: (adj) 1. Having the power of assuaging pain.
2. Soothing to the mind or feelings.
(n) 3. A medicine or drug which alleviates pain.
4. Anything that soothes wounded or excited feelings, or that lessens the sense of a misfortune.
ephor: (n) 1. The title given to certain magistrates in various Dorian states, esp. at Sparta, where the five ephors, appointed annually by popular election, exercised a controlling power over the kings.
2. In modern Greece: An overseer, superintendent of public works.
Milesian: (n) 1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor.
2. A member of the people descended from the companions of Milesius; (sometimes humorous) an Irish person.
malversation: (n) 1. Corrupt behaviour in a commission, office, employment, or position of trust; an instance of this.
2. Corrupt administration of something.
3. Evil conduct.
lexeme: (n) A word-like grammatical form intermediate between morpheme and utterance, often identical with a word occurrence; a word in the most abstract sense, as a meaningful form without an assigned grammatical role; an item of vocabulary.
corbel: (n) 1. A raven corbel's fee: part of a deer taken in hunting, left for the ravens;
2. A projection of stone, brick, timber, iron, or other constructional material, jutting out from (not merely attached to) the face of a wall, to support a superincumbent weight. As defined by the French architects, a corbel has parallel sides perpendicular to the surface of the wall, and must project farther than its own height. Some English writers use the term more loosely, so as to include e.g. the tapering projection sustaining the ribs of a vault called by the French culot or cul de lampe, and specially excluded by Viollet-le-Duc and Bosc from their definition of corbeau. In English, the term appears to have been purely technical, until caught up by Sir Walter Scott; his ‘corbels carved grotesque and grim’ have taken hold of the popular fancy, and associated the word with the notion of grotesque ornamentation; but a corbel is not an ornament, nor does ornamentation enter into its essential character.
3. A short timber laid upon a wall, pier, or other bearer, longitudinally under a beam or girder, to shorten its unsupported span and give a better bearing upon the wall or pier. Also corbel-block.
ort: (n) A fragment of food left over from a meal; fodder left by cattle; a refuse scrap; leavings. Usu. in pl. Also fig.: a fragment, esp. of wisdom, wit, knowledge, etc.
husting: (n) 1. An assembly for deliberative purposes, esp. one summoned by a king or other leader; a council.
2. A court held in the Guildhall of London by the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs (or Aldermen), long the supreme court of the city.
3. The upper end of the Guildhall, where this Court was held; the platform on which the Mayor and Aldermen took their seats.
4. The temporary platform from which, previous to the Ballot Act of 1872, the nomination of candidates for Parliament was made, and on which these stood while addressing the electors. Hence, contextually, the proceedings at a parliamentary election.
encomium: (n) A formal or high-flown expression of praise; a eulogy, panegyric.
archon: (n) 1. The chief magistrate, and, after the time of Solon, one of the nine chief magistrates of the Athenian republic.
2. A ruler or president generally.
3. A power subordinate to the Deity, held by some of the Gnostics to have made the world.
photovoltaic: (adj) Relating to, involving, or utilizing the generation of a voltage at the junction of two substances exposed to light.
endocarditis: (n) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart.
azimuth: (n) 1. An arc of the heavens extending from the zenith to the horizon which it cuts at right angles; the quadrant of a great circle of the sphere passing through the zenith and nadir, called an azimuth-circle.
2. The angular distance of any such circle from a given limit, e.g. a meridian. Hence, the true azimuth of a heavenly body is, the arc of the horizon intercepted between the north (or, in the Southern hemisphere, south) point of the horizon and the point where the great circle passing through the observed heavenly body cuts the horizon. Its magnetic azimuth is the arc intercepted between the magnetic meridian and this great circle.
3. in azimuth: in a horizontal circular direction.
4. Horizontal angle, or direction; point of the compass.
yeshiva: (n) An Orthodox Jewish college or seminary; a Talmudic academy.
soutane: (n) 1. A long buttoned gown or frock, with sleeves, forming the ordinary outer garment of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, and worn under the vestments in religious services; a cassock.
2. A wearer of the soutane; a priest.
mephitic: (adj) Esp. of a gas or vapour: offensive to the smell, foul-smelling; noxious, poisonous, pestilential. Mephitic acid/gas/air: usually refers to carbonic acid or carbon dioxide.
pyrazine: (n) A weakly basic white crystalline solid ; any substituted derivative of this.
anodyne: (adj) 1. Having the power of assuaging pain.
2. Soothing to the mind or feelings.
(n) 3. A medicine or drug which alleviates pain.
4. Anything that soothes wounded or excited feelings, or that lessens the sense of a misfortune.
ephor: (n) 1. The title given to certain magistrates in various Dorian states, esp. at Sparta, where the five ephors, appointed annually by popular election, exercised a controlling power over the kings.
2. In modern Greece: An overseer, superintendent of public works.
Milesian: (n) 1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor.
2. A member of the people descended from the companions of Milesius; (sometimes humorous) an Irish person.
malversation: (n) 1. Corrupt behaviour in a commission, office, employment, or position of trust; an instance of this.
2. Corrupt administration of something.
3. Evil conduct.
lexeme: (n) A word-like grammatical form intermediate between morpheme and utterance, often identical with a word occurrence; a word in the most abstract sense, as a meaningful form without an assigned grammatical role; an item of vocabulary.
corbel: (n) 1. A raven corbel's fee: part of a deer taken in hunting, left for the ravens;
2. A projection of stone, brick, timber, iron, or other constructional material, jutting out from (not merely attached to) the face of a wall, to support a superincumbent weight. As defined by the French architects, a corbel has parallel sides perpendicular to the surface of the wall, and must project farther than its own height. Some English writers use the term more loosely, so as to include e.g. the tapering projection sustaining the ribs of a vault called by the French culot or cul de lampe, and specially excluded by Viollet-le-Duc and Bosc from their definition of corbeau. In English, the term appears to have been purely technical, until caught up by Sir Walter Scott; his ‘corbels carved grotesque and grim’ have taken hold of the popular fancy, and associated the word with the notion of grotesque ornamentation; but a corbel is not an ornament, nor does ornamentation enter into its essential character.
3. A short timber laid upon a wall, pier, or other bearer, longitudinally under a beam or girder, to shorten its unsupported span and give a better bearing upon the wall or pier. Also corbel-block.