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n. 1. a primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.
Syn. -- archespore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Aspersoria [ LL. See Asperse. ] 1. The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Auditory, n. ] 1. The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave, where hearers stood to be instructed; in monasteries it was an apartment for the reception of strangers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a building, or a room within a building, containing a large open space for public gatherings, and often having a raised stage where speakers or presentations may be easily viewed by the audience. The students assembled to hear the president speak in the auditorium. [ PJC ]

n. [ from cafeteria and auditorium. ] a large room within a building, especially a school, which functions as both a cafeteria and an auditorium. [ PJC ]

‖n.: pl. Ciboria [ LL., fr. L. ciborium a cup, fr. Gr. &unr_; a seed vessel of the Egyptian bean; also, a cup made from its largeleaves, or resembling its seed vessel in shape. ] 1. (Arch.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. corium leather. ] 1. Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. Fosbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) Same as Dermis. (b) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Crematoriums (-ŭmz), Crematories [ NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator. ] A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. digitus a finger. ] A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emporiums L. Emporia [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; belonging to commerce, fr. &unr_; traveler, trader; &unr_; in + &unr_; way through and over, path. See In, and Empiric, Fare. ] 1. A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. [ 1913 Webster ]

That wonderful emporium [ Manchester ] . . . was then a mean and ill-built market town. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The brain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Eupator, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine. ] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. excubitorium; ex out + cubare, cubitum, to lie. ] (Eccl. Antiq.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; L. pl. -ria /plu>. [ NL., fr. L. fumare, fumatum, to smoke. ] An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Haustoria [ LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink. ] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. E. Inductoriums L. Inductoria [ NL., fr. E. induction. ] (Elec.) An induction coil.

n. [ NL.; meso- + thorium. ] (Chem.) a radioactive isotope of radium (radium-228) with a half-life of 5.8 years. Also called mesothorium-1 or mesothorium I to distinguish it from a subsequent decay product, mesothorium II (actinium-228). It was discovered in 1907 by Otto Hahn as a decay product of thorium (produced by decay of thorium-232). Mesothorium-1 (radium-228) in turn produces actinium-228 (mesothorium-2) as the first product of its radioactive decay, and the actinium-228 in turn decays quickly (half-life of 6 hours) to thorium-228 (which is also called radiothorium; the thorium-228 has a half-life of 1.91 years, shorter than that of the radium-228). It was discovered and named before full recognition of the nature of isotopes of the elements, and was distinguished from other variants of radium by its half-life and mode of production and decay. It was also cheaper to prepare than other short-lived radium isotopes, and was thus sold commercially, for use, e.g. in making watch dials readable in the dark by painting the hands and hour marks with a self-luminous paint containing the radioactive substance; it is therefore often referred to (e.g. in regulatory legislation) as though distinct from radium. It was one of the isotopes believed responsible for radiation-induced diseases observed in industrial workers who painted radium on watch dials in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The primary isotope of radium (radium-226) has a half-life of 1620 years, and these isotopes with shorter half-lives proved difficult to isolate and study for the purpose of finding the cause of such diseases. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of tropical usually epiphytic ferns, found from Africa to Asia, and from Polynesia to Australia.
Syn. -- genus Microsorium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. See Moratory. ] 1. (Law) A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a suspension of an activity. [ PJC ]

3. an officially authorized period of delay or waiting; as, a moratorium on putting a law into effect. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ L. ] A swimming bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in 1845 by the Swedish chemist Swanberg in zircon. After many unsuccessful attempts to verify this new element, the element named Hafnium (atomic number 72) was discoverd in 1923 by D. Coster and G. von Hevesey in the zirconium-containing mineral zircon. Hafnium, present at 1 to 5% in many zirconium-bearing minerals, but difficult to separate from zirconium, is probably the element that gave rise to the properties attributed to the hypothetical norium. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ ‖ } n.; pl. L. -soria E. -sories [ NL. ostensorium: cf. F. ostensoir. See Ostensible. ] (R. C. Ch.) Same as Monstrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pastor; cf. Auditorium. ] A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches. [ Southern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Pretorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. praetorium, fr. praetor. ] 1. The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) an earlier name for the thorium isotope thorium-228, given by its discoverer Otto Hahn. It is a radioactive substance formed as one of series of products in the chain of radioactive decay of thorium. Its immediate predecessor in the chain is Actinium-228, and it decays by alpha emission to radium-224 with a half-life of 1.91 years. The name radiothorium was given prior to the full understanding of the nature of isotopes of elements. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ LL. ] See Raspatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Sanatory. ] An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Scriptoria [ LL. See Scriptory. ] In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Sensoriums L. Sensoria [ L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses. ] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sudatoria [ L. ] A sudatory. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Suspensoria [ NL. ] (Anat.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Synclinoria [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; to lay together + &unr_; mountain. ] (Geol.) A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a tent. ] (Anat.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Thorite. ] (Chem.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., fr. L. tri- (see Tri-) + foris, pl. fores, a door. ] (Arch.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] Same as Triturium. [ 1913 Webster ]