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n. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. diagonal. ] (Crystallog.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a. Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. dome. ] (Crystallog.) See under Dome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + -graph. ] Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kli`nh bed + -oid. ] (Anat.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + -meter. ] (Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. pinacoid. ] (Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique. ] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to incline + &unr_; to make to stand. ] (Bot.) An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Decline + -meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Declinate.

a. [ Gr. &unr_; = &unr_; bed. ] Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., from giallo yellow, prob. fr. OHG. gelo, G. gelb; akin to E. yellow. ] A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clinometer.

n. (Chem.) A salt of linoleic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. linum flax + oleum oil. ] 1. Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Line; Type. ] (Print.) (a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. (b) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines. -- Lin"o*typ`ist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Linoleic + oxygen. ] (Chem.) A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid. [ Written also linoxyn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mono- + Gr. &unr_; couch, fr. &unr_; to lie down: cf. F. monocline. ] (Bot.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. palinodia, from Gr. &unr_;; pa`lin again + &unr_; a song. See Ode. ] 1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Palinode. [ Obs. ] Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pollen, -inis, dust. ] (Zool.) Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Saline + -meter. ] A salimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Saline. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] Same as Semolina. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sterquilinium a dung pit, fr. stercus dung. ] Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]