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A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes

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A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.

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    The quality of being principal.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • PRINCIPALITY
    preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • FATALNESS
    , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • LOCKOUT
    The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
  • FATALISTIC
    Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • AFFECTION
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    1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
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    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • RESULTIVE
    Resultant. Fuller.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • LOCKER
    1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
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  • CAUTIONARY BLOCK
    A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
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    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • HODGKIN'S DISEASE
    A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
  • LANDLOCK
    To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
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    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
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    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
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