| 1 | Driftwood Wood drifted or floated by water. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. |
| 2 | Pugilistic Of or pertaining to pugillism. |
| 3 | Effrenation Unbridled license; unruliness. |
| 4 | Ostensibility The quality or state of being ostensible. |
| 5 | Trap To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of
horses. An old term rather loosely used to designate various
dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the
feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but
including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a
spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which
one may be caught unawares. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the
game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is
placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end.
Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons,
etc., to be shot at. The game of trapball. A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe,
sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which
prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates
for want of an outlet. A wagon, or other vehicle. A kind of movable stepladder. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a
sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping
game; as, to trap for beaver. |
| 6 | Expiration The act of expiring The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air
from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of
inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The last emission of breath; death. A coming to a close; cessation; extinction;
termination; end. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that
which is produced by breathing out, as a sound. |
| 7 | Unfrequency Infrequency. |
| 8 | Spectroscope An optical instrument for forming and examining
spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which
different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the
position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance. |
| 9 | Phacolite A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from
Leipa, in Bohemia. |
| 10 | Hypoblast The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called
also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of
Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm. |
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