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Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
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Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s, foot +
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- INSECTATOR
A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - PODURA
Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s, - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - GENERABILITY
Capability of being generated. Johnstone. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - LEAPFUL
A basketful. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - GENERA
See GENUS - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - GENERANT
Generative; producing; esp. , - SCALEBOARD
A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - SCALEBEAM
1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - GUNTER'S SCALE
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating.