- anthelix
- appendix
- cicatrix
- creatrix
- smallpox
- disannex
- quincunx
- opopanax
- bandeaux
- bordeaux
- biconvex
- relatrix
- chaffwax
- snuffbox
- rixatrix
- rouleaux
- carnifex
- sardonyx
- saucebox
- crucifix
- chafewax
- curatrix
- plateaux
- tractrix
- janitrix
- jasponyx
- parallax
- fabliaux
- monitrix
- giambeux
- subindex
- intermix
- interrex
- intertex
- phorminx
- pontifex
- tableaux
- transfix
- toadflax
- manteaux
- adjutrix
- orthodox
- leucoryx
- parallax
(n.) Same as Antihelix.
(n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or
concomitant.
(n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily
essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement,
which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.
(n.) The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of
continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and
which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
(n.) A creatress.
(n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease
characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption
is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat,
subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts
which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
(v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
(n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a
rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle;
especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as
to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
(n.) The position of planets when distant from each other five
signs, or 150¡.
(n.) A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in
aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
(n.) The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the
Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose
granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color,
with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was
formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic.
(pl. ) of Bandeau
(a.) Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
(n.) A claret wine from Bordeaux.
(a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
(n.) A female relator.
(n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing
writs and other documents.
(n.) A small box for carrying snuff about the person.
(n.) A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.
(pl. ) of Rouleau
(n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of
the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.
(n.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony
in alternate layers.
(n.) A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.
(n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the
cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood,
ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their
devotions.
(n.) The cross or religion of Christ.
(n.) Alt. of Chaffwax
(n.) A woman who cures.
(n.) A woman who is a guardian or custodian.
(pl. ) of Plateau
(n.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the
point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called
because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a
tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
(n.) A female janitor.
(n.) An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.
(n.) The apparent difference in position of a body (as the
sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as
seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the
sun.
(pl. ) of Fabliau
(n.) A female monitor.
(n. pl.) Greaves; armor for the legs.
(n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a
letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have
0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.
(v. t.) To mix together; to intermingle.
(v. i.) To be mixed together; to be intermingled.
(n.) An interregent, or a regent.
(v. t.) To intertwine; to weave or bind together.
(n.) A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.
(n.) A high priest; a pontiff.
(pl. ) of Tableau
(v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to
impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
(n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having
narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also
butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
(pl. ) of Manteau
(n.) A female helper or assistant.
(a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious
doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines
taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an
orthodox Christian.
(a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture,
the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an
orthodox opinion, book, etc.
(a.) Approved; conventional.
(n.) A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied
to the gemsbok.
(n.) The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of
an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.