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Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid. Silicic acid , an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si 4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts;

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Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid. Silicic acid , an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si 4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.

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• FORMALITY
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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• DRIVEL
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• DRIVE
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• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• CHONDRIN
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• MIDRIB
  A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
• FALCIFORM
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• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
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• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
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  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• HYPOCHONDRIACISM
  Hypochondriasis.
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• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
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