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n. 1. 1 a genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and Southern Africa, with an everlasting flower; most species are usually placed in genus Helipterum.
Syn. -- genus Acroclinium [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ Aniline + -ism. ] (Med.) A disease caused by chronic exposure to aniline; aniline toxicity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

n. pl.; sing. blin. [ Russian. ] Russian pancakes of buckwheat flour and yeast, sometimes made from white flour; they are usually served folded over, with caviar and sour cream on the inside; -- properly, it is a plural word (from the Russian plural of blin) but in America, often used as singular; thus the common plural blinis.
Syn. -- bliny, blinis. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From George Catlin, an American traveler. ] A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; bile. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cholic acid (Chem.), a complex organic acid found as a natural constituent of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Clinical. ] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [ Obs. ] Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. [ PJC ]

4. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested. [ PJC ]

6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [ fig. ] [ PJC ]

{ , a. [ Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. --
Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. --
Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. --
Clinical medicine,
Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clinical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. of or pertaining to the Clinidae, a family of fish of temperate and tropical seas. [ PJC ]

n. any fish of the family Clinidae, of temperate and tropical seas. [ PJC ]

n. a natural family of viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas.
Syn. -- family Clinidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Med.) A clinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kli`nh bed. ] (Bot.) See Clinanthium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil coralline. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. decreasing; as, steadily declining incomes.
Syn. -- down(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. going from better to worse.
Syn. -- deteriorating, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. becoming less or smaller; as, declining powers of body and mind. Opposite of increasing.
Syn. -- eroding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. drawing to an end; waning; as, his declining years. [ prenominal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. delinere to smear. See Liniment. ] A smearing. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculation, castration. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. to remove the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculate, castrate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as desalinization.
Syn. -- desalination, desalinization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.
Syn. -- desalination, desalinisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. same as desalinate.
Syn. -- desalinate, desalt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; to incline. ] (Crystallog.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli. [ Sometimes spelled fedellini or fedelline. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. fel, fellis, gall. ] Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also static electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A kind of mineral of the spinel group. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Gadolinite. ] (Chem.) A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, gadolinium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to or containing gadolinium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Gadolin, a Russian chemist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Gadolinite. ] (Chem.) A rare earth metallic element of the Lanthanide series, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare earth elements. Symbol, Gd; it has an atomic number of 64, an atomic weight of 157.25 (C=12.011), and a valence of +3. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A large mosquito. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the German chemist Gmelin. ] (Min.) A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To transform into a goblin. [ R. ] Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. illinire, illinere, to besmear; pref. il- in, on + linire, linere, to smear. ] 1. A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A thin crust or illinition of black manganese. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Inclination; disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Party or side chosen; a following. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both you of my inclining, and the rest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Same as Inclined, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; to incline. ] Of or pertaining to, or indicating, equality of inclination or dip; having equal inclination or dip. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isoclinal lines (Magnetism), lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which a dipping needle indicates the same inclination or dip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into kaolin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also acetyl-propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose). [ Written also laevulinic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. linum flax + -gerous. ] Bearing flax; producing linen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. linimentum, fr. linire, linere, to besmear, anoint : cf. F. liniment. Cf. Letter, Lime a viscous substance. ] A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Line to cover the in side. ] 1. The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lining of his coffers shall make coats
To deck our soldiers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]