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auscultation: (n) 1. The action of listening or hearkening.
2. In Medicine: The action of listening, with ear or stethoscope, to the sound of the movement of heart, lungs, or other organs, in order to judge their condition of health or disease.
lenticule: (n) 1. A lentil-shaped body.
2. In Photography: A minute lens of a lenticular film.
peristylium: (n) In Architecture: A colonnade or row of columns surrounding a temple, court, cloister, etc.; the court or space surrounded by such a row of columns.
genitomancy: (n) A divination method based on inspection of the subject's genitals.
pelf: (n) 1. Stolen goods; booty, spoil.
2. Property, material possessions; objects of value.
3. Chiefly depreciative. Money, riches (especially viewed as a corrupting influence); lucre.
4. A worthless person, a good-for-nothing.
5. Junk, trash, rubbish; frippery.
6. Dust; fluff.
7. Refuse, detritus; specifically plant refuse, weeds.
tradescantia: (n) An American genus of perennial herbs (N.O. Commelynaceæ) characterized by three-petalled blue, white, pink, or purple ephemeral flowers having six stamens clothed with jointed hairs; spiderwort.
cairngorm/cairngorum: (n) A precious stone of a yellow or wine-colour, consisting of rock-crystal coloured by oxide of iron or, according to Dana, by titanic acid; in common use for brooches and seals, and for ornamenting the handles of dirks, and other articles of Highland costume.
ormolu/ormulu: (n) Originally: gold or gold leaf ground and prepared for gilding brass, bronze, or other metal. Later: gilded bronze or a gold-coloured alloy of copper, zinc, and tin used to decorate furniture, make ornaments, etc.; (also) articles made of or decorated with this.
loggia: (n) 1. A gallery or arcade having one or more of its sides open to the air.
2. Also, an open-sided extension to a house, typically of stone or brick construction.
nate/nait: (n) 1. Profit, advantage; usefulness.
2. A use, a purpose.
navvy: (n) 1. A construction worker; specifically a labourer employed in the construction of (originally) a canal, (now frequently) a road, railway, etc.
2. A mechanical excavator.
landau: (n) A four-wheeled carriage, the top of which, being made in two parts, may be closed or thrown open, When open, the rear part is folded back, and the front part entirely removed.
scurf: (n) 1. A morbid condition of the skin, especially of the head, characterized by the separation of branny scales, without inflammation.
2. A similar condition in animals.
3. The scales or small laminæ of epidermis that are continually being detached from the skin; especially such scales detached in abnormally large quantity as a consequence of disease, or forming accumulations at the roots of the hair or elsewhere. Formerly also, a single scale or lamina of this kind.
4. In Botany: Minute scales found on the leaves of certain plants.
5. Any incrustation upon the surface of a body; rust, a scab; a saline or sulphurous deposit, mould, or the like; specifically a deposit of coke on the inner surface of a gas retort.
6. A thin layer of turf.
7. The ‘scum’ of the population.
8. A contemptible person, especially a miser, skinflint. Also specifically, an employer who pays less than the usual rate of wages; a labourer who accepts less than the usual rate.
branny: (adj) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling bran.
retort: (n) 1. A vessel generally made of glass, but occasionally of metal or earthenware, and provided with a long neck, bent downwards, in which liquids, etc., subjected to distillation are heated.
2. A vessel in which mercury is separated from amalgam or impurity by volatilization.
3. A clay or iron receptacle, forming a cylinder or segment of one, in which coal is heated for the production of gas.
4. A furnace in which iron is heated with carbon, in order to produce steel.
5. A vessel in which canned or packaged foodstuff is sterilized by heating directly or under pressure.
coke: (n) The solid substance left after mineral coal has been deprived by dry distillation of its volatile constituents, being a form of carbon of more compact texture, but with more impurities, than the charcoal obtained by a similar process from wood.
mononymous: (adj) Having only a single name.
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