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Plant
·noun The sole of the foot.
II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
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plant
The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods ar...
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plant
v. tr. and n.
common in Australiafor to hide, and for the thing hidden away. As remarkedin the quot...
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plant
A stock of tools, &c. Also, the fixtures, machinery, &c., required to carry on a business.
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Air
·noun Intelligence; information.
II. Air ·noun Odoriferous or contaminated air.
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Air
The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This w...
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air
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe. It penetrates and...
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Dove plant
·- A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with nu...
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Flax-plant
·noun A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two in...
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Host plant
·add. ·- A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are u...
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Ice plant
·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...
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Plant-cane
·noun A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second ...
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Plant-eating
·adj Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
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Telegraph plant
·add. ·- An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like...
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Water plant
·- A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
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Wind-plant
·noun A <<Windflower>>.
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butterfly-plant
n.
a small flowering plant, Utricularia dichotoma, Lab., N.O. Leutibularina.
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caustic-plant
or Caustic-Vine
,n.
Sarcostemma australis, R. Br., N.O.Asclepiadea. Cattle and sheep are poisoned ...
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coffee plant
or Coffee Berry
n.
namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.).
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guitar plant
a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatiatinctoria, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae.
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honey-plant
n.
name given in Tasmania to Richea scoparia Hook., N.O. Epacris.
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ice-plant
n.
Tasmanian name for Tetragoniaimplexicoma, Hook., N.O. Ficoideae, B. Fl. Variousspecies of Tetrag...
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ink-plant
n.
another name for the «toot,» a New Zealand shrub, Coriaria thymifolia, N.O.Coriarieae. Called In...
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jelly-plant
a sea-weed, Eucheuma speciosum,J. Agardh, N.O. Algae.
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milk-plant
n.
i.q. Caustic Creeper (q.v.).
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officer plant
n.
another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...
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pea-plant
n.
The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae.
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plant-caterpillar
n.
name given in Australasiato species of caterpillars which are attacked by spores ofcertain fungi...
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trigger-plant
n.
i.q. Hairtrigger (q.v.) plant; called also Jack-in-a-box.
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Air bed
·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
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Air bladder
·- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
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Air brake
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air.
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Air brush
·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.
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Air cell
·- A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
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Air chamber
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
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Air cock
·- A faucet to allow escape of air.
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Air cooling
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Air drill
·- A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
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Air engine
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
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Air gap
·add. ·- An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the spa...
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Air gas
·- ·see under <<Gas>>.
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Air hole
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
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Air jacket
·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...
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Air level
·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>.
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Air line
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds.
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Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe.
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Air poise
·- An instrument to measure the weight of air.
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Air pump
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
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Air sac
·- One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connec...
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Air shaft
·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
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Air stove
·- A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and...
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Air vessel
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...
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Air-built
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Air-drawn
·adj Drawn in air; imaginary.
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Air-slacked
·adj Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
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Air-tight
·noun A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
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Liquid air
·add. ·- A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied o...
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Open-air
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
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air-bladder
A vesicle containing gas, situated immediately beneath the spinal column in most fish, and often com...
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air-braving
Defying the winds.
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air-cone
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
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air-funnel
A cavity formed by omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, to admit fresh air into the ...
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
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air-jacket
A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.)
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air-pipes
Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat.
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air-ports
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
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air-pump
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
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air-scuttles
The same as air-ports.
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air-shafts
Vertical holes made in mining, to supply the adits with fresh air. Wooden shafts are sometimes adopt...
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foul air
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
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bird-catching plant
n.
a New Zealand shrub ortree, Pisonia brunoniana, Endl., N.O. Nyctagineae; Maori name, Parapara.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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