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Word Meanings - UNCONFORMABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. -- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv. (more info) 1. Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. Moral evil is an action unconformable to it .

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Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. -- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv. (more info) 1. Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. Moral evil is an action unconformable to it . I. Watts.

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    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
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  • LYTHE
    The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.
  • LYSIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
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    See LYCOPODIUM
  • LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
    See LITHONTRIPTIC
  • LYONNAISE
    Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
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    An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
  • LYSSA
    Hydrophobia. Note: The plural has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.
  • CONFORMABLE
    1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
  • MORALIZE
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  • LYCINE
    A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn . See Betaine.
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    1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
  • LYAM
    A leash.
  • LYRIFEROUS
    Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
  • LYMPHOGENIC
    Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.
  • LYCOPODIUM
    A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used
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    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
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    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • FAMILIARLY
    In a familiar manner.
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • SAVELY
    Safely. Chaucer.
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    With laughter or merriment.
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  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
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    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
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    In a thirsty manner.
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    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
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    In sundry ways; variously.
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    In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
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    In the manner of an imp.
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    In a manner to give aid.
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    In a thermal manner.

 

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